What common writing infraction do semi-colons, comma + conjunctions, and periods correct?
What is a comma splice?
100
Find the error in the following sentence:
My friend lives on Washington street in Wyoming.
What is street needs to be capitalized?
100
Find and correct the error in this sentence:
Each year, forty-one thousand people die from the flu.
What is, numbers greater than two words should be in number form?
100
This is the only thing that belongs in the header.
What is the author's last name and page number on an essay?
100
A principle, ideal, value, theory, or condition.
What is a concept?
200
Identify the sentence error in the following sentences:
It had been a long time since I had seen my sister. Too long.
What is a fragment?
200
Find the error in the following sentence:
My friend and I took a long ski vacation last Winter.
What is winter does not need to be capitalized?
200
Find and correct the error in the following sentence:
Most students earned eighty percent or higher on their first essay.
What is eighty needs to be in numeral form because it is a percent?
200
This is the spacing for all MLA essays.
What is double spacing throughout?
200
To teach, engage, or demonstrate knowledge.
What is the purpose of a concept essay?
300
Identify the error in this sentence and explain why the sentence is incorrect:
Me and my brother went to the circus last night.
What is incorrect use of me? When you take out the other person, "my brother," the sentence would not make sense. It should read: My brother and I went to the circus last night.
300
Find and correct the error in this sentence:
My mother always said, "you are what you eat!"
What is the "y" in the quotation needs to be uppercase because it is the beginning of the quoted sentence?
300
Find the error in the follwoing sentence and tell why it is wrong:
I was born 23 years ago today.
What is 23 needs to be written out because numbers one-ninety-nine need to be written out?
300
What is the information in the parenthesis called, according to MLA:
"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" (Armstrong 45). Is a quote that was heard around the world as our first astronautes landed and then stepped onto the moon. This was a historic event that children will learn about for years to come.
What is a parenthetical citation?
300
Defining key terms, classifying groups, comparing/contrasting, and illustrating.
What are strategies for a concept essay?
400
Identify the error in this sentence and give the correction:
After the movie there car would not start.
What is the improper use of there instead of their?
400
Find and correct the error in this sentence.
My Uncle and I are going to play cards after work.
What is uncle should be lower case because you can't replace the word uncle with a name?
400
Find and correct the error in this sentence:
I usually arrive at school by seven-thirty each morning.
What is 7:30 should be in number form because it refers to a time?
400
The title on the final page of a research essay is...
What is the Works Cited page?
400
Describe what a concept essay is supposed to do.
What is explaining a concept or idea without favoring a viewpoint in the writing?
500
Find and correct the error in this sentence:
The man yelled at me so loud that I began to cry.
What is change loud to loudly because it modifies the verb, yelled?
500
Find and correct the error in this sentence:
I came around the corner and ran, SMACK, into the door! Boy, did that ever hurt!
What is using capital letters for emphasis?
500
Find and correct the error in this sentence:
I try to leave work each day by 5:00, at the latest.
What is 5:00 should be written out as 5 o'clock because you should spell out times when saying o'clock?
500
Describe, in order, including punctuation, the MLA citation for a book listed on a Works Cited page.
What are: author's last name, first name. Book title in italics. City of publication: publisher, year of publication. Print.?
500
This is what readers use to judge the validity of a person's work.