Name That Character!
Fire is bright and fire is clean!
Beatty
PTEAD
Very skilled or proficient at something. ADEPT
The list of names are on the table.
What to Correct: Subject-verb agreement. Corrected Sentence: The list of names is on the table.
What are my wife's and my dogs' names?
Olivia and Maya
The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property.
John Locke
Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!
Gatsby
SABI
Definition: Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair. Answer: BIAS
I have less apples than I did yesterday because I made a pie.
What to Correct: Incorrect word choice (less vs. fewer). Corrected Sentence: I have fewer apples than I did yesterday because I made a pie.
What is my favorite book?
A Monster Calls
Life without strong government would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
Thomas Hobbes
Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back.
Tom
UROCNC
Definition: To agree with someone or something. Answer: CONCUR
Give the report to John or myself when you are finished.
What to Correct: Incorrect pronoun case (reflexive pronoun used as an object pronoun). Corrected Sentence: Give the report to John or me when you are finished.
What is my favorite show?
Frieren or A Silent Voice
"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kerosene, is nothing but perfume to me.
Montag
DILIV
Definition: Furiously angry. Answer: LIVID
She wanted to go to the concert but she didn't have a ticket.
What to Correct: Missing comma before a conjunction joining two independent clauses. Corrected Sentence: She wanted to go to the concert, but she didn't have a ticket.
How old am I?
26, 27 in june
Man being…by nature all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.
John Locke
Wondrous strength and generosity of a woman's heart! She will not speak!
Dimmesdale
ATSNOGILA
Definition: A sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past. Answer: NOSTALGIA
Running quickly, the finish line was crossed by the athlete.
What to Correct: Dangling modifier (or awkwardly phrased passive voice making it sound like the finish line was running). Corrected Sentence: Running quickly, the athlete crossed the finish line.
Name as many things as you can that happened on my worst date ever. [DAILY DOUBLE ONLY]
Han Solo Costume, dinner with father and sisters, no group, terrible DJ, dancing too close, too handsy, attempted kiss, told dad we were dating.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau