Grammar Fundamentals
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What is a verb?
What is verb tense consistency?
What is subject-verb agreement?
A verb is an action, state of being, or occurrence.
Verbs must stay in the same tense throughout a sentence, paragraph, or passage.
Subjects and verbs must agree in plurality.
Pamperos are strong cold southwesterly winds that sweep down over the pampas of Argentina from the Andes towards the Atlantic Ocean.
Which edit should be made to correct this sentence?
A. Add a comma after Pamperos
B. Add a comma after strong
C. Add a comma after winds
D. Add a comma after Andes
B
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What is a modifier?
What is a dangling modifier?
What is a misplaced modifier?
A phrase or clause that acts as an adjective and elaborates on a subject.
A modifier that does not have a subject to describe.
A modifier that is not placed next to the subject it describes.
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What is a run-on sentence?
What is a fragment?
What does a sentence need?
A run-on sentence is a sentence that is made up of two or more improperly connected independent clauses.
A fragment is a clause that is missing a subject, verb, or complete idea.
A sentence needs a subject, verb, and a complete idea.
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What is the main difference between subordinating conjunctions and coordinating conjunctions?
What comma rules do the two types of conjunctions follow?
Subordinating conjunctions connect dependent and independent clauses. Coordinating conjunctions connect two of the same categories: (word - word, phrase - phrase, Independent clause - Independent clause).
Subordinating conjunctions use commas when they
appear at the front of the sentence. Coordinating conjunctions use commas when they connect two independent clauses.
Products with more reviews sell more than products with fewer reviews, but stores want shoppers to leave reviews.
Which edit should be made to correct this sentence?
A. change but to and
B. change but to for
C. change but to so
D. change but to yet
C
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What is a pronoun?
What is an antecedent?
What is a pronoun-agreement error?
What is a faulty pronoun?
A pronoun is a word that replaces a noun.
The noun that a pronoun replaces.
When the pronoun and antecedent do not match.
When the pronoun does not have an antecedent to match to.
(1) The university invested in a program to provide stipends for students who take on unpaid internships that may help them land jobs after graduation.
(2) This spiked applications for such internships among students.
What is the best way to combine the sentences to clarify the relationship between the ideas?
A. The university invested in a program to provide stipends for students who take on unpaid internships that may help them land jobs after graduation; this effort, however, spiked applications for such internships among students.
B. The university invested in a program to provide stipends for students who take on unpaid internships that may help them land jobs after graduation, resulting in a spike in applications for such internships among students.
C. The university invested in a program to provide stipends for students who take on unpaid internships that may help them land jobs after graduation, and it was so that there was a spike in applications for such internships among students.
D. While the university invested in a program to provide stipends for students who take on unpaid internships that may help them land jobs after graduation, there was a spike in applications for such internships among students.
B
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What are the different uses for the four within-sentence punctuations? (comma, semi-colon, colon, dashes)
Commas: Listing, Dates, Locations, Connecting independent clauses with coordinating conjunctions, Separating appositives,
Semi-colon: Connecting 2 closely related independent clauses, Listing things that use commas like dates or places
Colon: Introducing a list or explanation
Dashes: Interruptions
(1) The dog lover, Naia, took care of several canines throughout the neighborhood. (2) Max, a German Shepherd, was Naia's favorite. (3) She served raw meat to Max in a bowl every day. (4) Content to eat, Max would eat all his food and rest for hours.
Which sentence contains an error in its construction and should be revised?
3 because the sentence makes it sound like Max is in the bowl.
(1) Grandfather decided to sell his house and drive around the United States in his recreational vehicle. (2) He did so abruptly, giving almost no notice to the rest of the family, shocking everyone when they discovered his plans. (3) It was up to the rest of the family to sort through his belongings, put things in storage, and sell the rest. (4) The family was amazed to find in grandfather's attic an antique steamer trunk which had crossed the Atlantic on the Mayflower, still intact and in good condition.
Which sentence needs to be edited and what needs to be fixed?
(1) While money may not grow on trees, scientists have found that gold does. (2) Examining eucalyptus trees near gold prospecting sites, scientists observed that gold gets sucked up with other nutrients in the soil. (3) As a dissolved mineral, the tree transports the element throughout its leaves. (4) Trace amounts of the mineral found on leaves is not enough to make anyone rich, but it does provide a new way to find hidden sources of gold.
Which sentence contains an error in its construction and should be revised?
3 because it makes it seem like the tree is a dissolved mineral.
Everybody in Kaisha's class were afraid of snakes, so the science teacher changed the class project to be about the lifecycle of frogs, instead.
What edit needs to be made in this sentence?
Were -> was because Everybody is singular