Punctuation Correction
Correct the following sentence's punctuation...
I realize that my humble home isn't as fancy as the Baudelaire mansion, Count Olaf said, but perhaps with a bit of your money we could fix it up a little nicer.
- excerpt from "The Bad Beginning or, Orphans!"
It is missing Quotation Marks (" ").
What pronoun need to change, and what should it be instead?
"But look what I did," I said, proudly pointing to mine pile of cotton.
- excerpt from "The Circuit"
Change "mine" to "my".
Correct the mistake below...
"Everyone hates knowing that tomorrow's Monday, but we live on thinking about how another fun Saturday will came around. It isn't always Monday!"
- quote from Hirohiko Araki
The phrase "will came" should be "will come"
What is wrong with the quote below?
"Hello my name is Inigo Montoya you killed my father prepare to die."
- except from "The Princess Bride"
It is a run-on sentence and/or it is missing punctuation.
Correct the spelling in the sentence below...
The heat of the scorching desert son beat down on the weary travelers.
The word "son" should be "sun".
If there is a mistake, correct the excerpt below...
"They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and thats true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up."
- excerpt from "Big Fish"
The word "thats" needs an apostrophe. (that's)
If there is an error, correct the quote below...
I will use big words from time to time, the meanings of which I may only vaguely perceive, in hopes such cupidity will send you scampering to you dictionary: I will call such behavior "public service".
- quote from Harlan Ellison
The second "you" should be the possessive "your".
Correct the statement below...
Linkin Park's best-selling album is their 2000 debut, hybrid theory, which has sold over 25–30 million copies worldwide, making it the best-selling rock album of the 21st century.
Hybrid Theory is the name of the album, so it should be capitalized.
What conjunction (F.A.N.B.O.Y.S.) would be best for combining these sentences?
I love to go on wilderness hikes. I also love to swim in the lake.
The best choice would be "and".
If there is a mistake, correct the spelling in the excerpt below...
"Here's the orphan," the hook-handed man said. "And now, I must go help Count Olaf with final preperations for tonight's performance."
- excerpt from "The Bad Beginning or, Orphans!"
Change "preperations" to "preparations".
Daily Double! You may wager as many or as few points as you would like. If you get the question correct, then you will double your wager. If you are incorrect, then you lose what you wager.
Fix the punctuation if there is an error...
"Here I am," said a voice from the sea. It was a turtle, who came crawling up on the sand. "I'm the turtle you saved the other day. When I returned to the palace under the sea, I told the Sea Princess what you had done. This made here very happy, and she asked me to bring you to see her."
- excerpt from "Urashima Taro"
There are no mistakes.
Correct the excerpt below...
"The officers were satisfied. My manner had convinced him. I was singularly at ease. They sat, and while I answered cheerily, they chatted of familiar things."
- excerpt from "The Tell-Tale Heart"
The word "him" is singular, but there are multiple officers.
If there is an error, correct the excerpt below.
The Mannlicher-Carcano rifle that Oswald purchased and used to assassinate president Kennedy. This was also the same rifle Oswald used in his failed attempt on General Walker's life.
- excerpt from "The President Has Been Shot"
The word "President" should be capitalized.
Open Ended Question
Combine the two sentences below into a complex sentence...
I wanted to watch "The Last Act" in theater. There were no tickets left.
However, Although, While, etc.
If there is a mistake, correct the sentence below...
While the game Tetris was the best selling game for decades, the hit game Minecraft is now considered too be the best selling single title in gaming history.
The word "too" should be "to".
If there is a mistake, correct the excerpt below...
Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. It is a strange movie with no plot and no beginning. The movie is in black and white, and grainy. Sometimes the camera moves in so close that you cant tell what is going on and you just listen to the sounds and guess.
- excerpt from "Monster"
The word "cant" is missing an apostrophe. (Can't)
If there is a mistake, correct the excerpt below...
"I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around—nobody big, I mean—except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, myself have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff".
"Myself" should be "I".
Correct the excerpt below. The mistake, if there is one, could be anything.
To the right of our house, a few yards away, stood three large empty oil barrels that served as garbage cans for the residents. Mr. Bonetti periodically burnt the garbage and hauled the remains to the city dump in his truck.
- excerpt from "The Circuit"
The word "burnt" should be "burned". "Burnt" is an adjective while "burned" is a verb.
Open Ended Question...
How do we correctly combine these two sentences into a complex sentence?
Platypus are egg laying mammals. It is rare for mammals to lay eggs.
There are multiple ways to combine these sentences.
Correct the quote below. You must find all three mistakes to get 400 points.
"Sometimes people don't want too here the truth because they don't want there illusions destroyed."
- quote from Friedrich Nietzsche
"too" is "to"
"here" is "hear"
"there" is "their"
Correct the excerpt below if there is an error...
"To be, or not to be, that is the question; whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them."
- excerpt from "Hamlet"
The semicolon ( ; ) should be a colon ( : ).
The instructions have 3 errors. Find 2 out of 3 errors for 500 points...
First, you place two slices of bread side-by-side on a plate. Next, you apply peanut butter using a knife to scoop and spread them evenly onto one slice of bread. Then, using the same knife (or a clean one), you spread jelly onto the other slice of bread. Then, carefully flip one slice over onto the other so the peanut butter and jelly meet. Lastly, I cut the sandwich in half and put it on a plate to enjoy with chips, fruit, or as a treat on their own.
The phrase "spread them" should be "spread it".
The phrase "I cut" should be "you cut".
The phrase "on their own" should be "on its own".
There are 5 mistakes in the excerpt below. They could be anything. Correct 3 out of 5 for 500 points.
Correct the excerpt below...
John Kennedy had been president of the United States for two years ten months and two days. He had left some unfinished paperwork behind on his desk in the Oval Office, including an auto graphed photo of himself intended as a gift for a supporter. After inscribing the foto, him had neglected to sign it. It was of no consequence. He could sign his name once he returned from texas.
- excerpt from "The President Has Been Shot"
1st sentence is a run-on sentence. (Missing commas)
The word "foto" should be "photo".
Texas should be capitalized.
Autographed is one word.
"Him" should be "He" after the misspelled word "foto".
There are three sentences below. Two of them are run-on sentences, but one is not. Identity which sentence is correct.
"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
“He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.”
"Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like."
"He was an old man..."
There are 3 spelling mistakes in the excerpt below. Correct 2 out of 3 for 500 points.
Correct the excerpt below...
"They sang these words most musicaly, and as I longed to here them further I made by frowning to my men that they should set me free; but they quickened there stroke, and Eurylochus and Perimedes bound me with still stronger bonds till we had got out of hearing of the Sirens' voices."
- excerpt from "The Odyssey"
"musicaly is " musically"
"here" is "hear"
"there" is "their"