Dangling Modifiers If your baby does not like cold apple juice, it should be heated.
Your answer: 1. If your baby does not like cold apple juice you should heat it.
Dangling Modifiers When they are fresh, eating oranges can often keep away the cold virus.
Your answer: 2. When oranges are fresh they can often keep away a cold virus.
Predication Our plans for tomorrow should begin today.
Your answer: 3. No Change
Punctuating Sentences The dinner party will begin at 8 o’clock sharp.
Your answer: 4.
No Change
Punctuating Sentences Without a doubt, cramming for the test.
Your answer: 5. Without a doubt you will be cramming for the test.
Punctuating Sentences He took the curve too sharply, it caused an accident.
Your answer: 6. He took the curve to sharply, and it caused an accident.
Punctuation—Colon The ingredients for my favorite grilled sandwich are: peanut butter and bananas.
Your answer: 7. The ingrediants for my favorite grilled sandwiches are peanut butter, and bananas.
Punctuation—Colon Studying is exciting: find something about the subject that interests you, and resolve to become an expert.
Your answer: 8. Studying is exciting: find something about the subject that interest you and resolve to become an expert.
Punctuation—Dash Pens come in all shapes—my favorite is an ergonomic one shaped like a wishbone.
Your answer: 9. Pens come in all shapes my favorite is an ergonomic one shaped like a wishbone.
Punctuation—Hyphen She ate two thirds of the pie in one sitting!
Your answer: 10. She ate two-thirds of the pie in one sitting.
Punctuation—Hyphen The high rise building is located at 3114 Main Street.
Your answer: 11. The high-rise building is located at 3114 Main Street.
Punctuation—Parentheses The blouse did not fit properly. (You will find it in this package.)
Your answer: 12. No Change
Punctuation—Square Brackets The article about American history stated, “The revolution began over a beer [during Prohibition] and ended with a bang.”
Your answer: 13. No change
Inclusive Language—Nonsexist Language
We need more manpower to finish the job on schedule.
Your answer: 14. We need more employees to finish the job on schedule.
Inclusive Language—Nonracist and Nonagist Language
The woman who earned the award was a Negro from Louisiana.
Your answer: 15. The person who earned the award was from Louisiana.
Inclusive Language—Nonracist and Nonagist Language
It seems that every Golden Ager is on the bus trip to Laughlin, Nevada.
Your answer: 16. It seems that alot of people were on the bus trip to Laughlin,Nevada.
Inclusive Language—Talking about People with Disabilities and Disease
The blind people were downtown for a national conference.
Your answer: 17. There were alot of people downtown for a national conference.
Inclusive Language—Talking about People with Disabilities and Disease
His sister is afflicted with polio and muscular dystrophy, so she is confined to a wheelchair.
Your answer: 18. His sister is confined to a wheelchair.
Inclusive Language—Quoting from Biased Material The mayors and their wives were invited on a tour of the state buildings.
Your answer: 19. The political parties and their families were on a tour of the state buildings.
Inclusive Language—Quoting from Biased Material
Back in the 1400s, the laws governing the people were quite specific: “All men shall tithe 10% to the church and pay taxes every six months. All men can attend school until they are 16 years of age.”
Your answer: 20. No Change
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The first six are correct. :-)
# 7 shouldn't have a comma. Two words joined by "and" don't have a comma between them.
# 8 is correct.
# 9 should have a period, dash, or semicolon between the two clauses.
#s 10-16 are correct. :-)
# 17 could be:
People who are blind were downtown for a conference.
# 18 is correct.
# 19 should be:
The mayors and their spouses were invited on a tour of the state buildings.
# 20 is correct.
Thanks for the help
You're very welcome. :-)
I think #2 should read as follows:
When oranges are fresh, eating them can often keep away the cold virus.
If you keep it as, "When oranges are fresh they can often keep away a cold virus," it makes it sound as if the oranges themselves keep away the cold virus. Eating the oranges keeps away the virus, not the oranges themselves.
Dangling Modifiers:
1. If your baby does not like cold apple juice, you should heat it.
Explanation: The modifier "If your baby does not like cold apple juice" should be placed right before the subject "you" to clarify who should heat the juice.
2. When oranges are fresh, they can often keep away a cold virus.
Explanation: The modifier "When they are fresh" should be replaced with "When oranges are fresh" to clearly refer to the subject "oranges."
Predication:
3. No Change
Explanation: The sentence is grammatically correct and does not require any changes.
Punctuating Sentences:
4. No Change
Explanation: The sentence is grammatically correct and does not require any changes.
5. Without a doubt, you will be cramming for the test.
Explanation: The sentence lacks a main clause. Adding "you will be" before "cramming for the test" corrects this issue.
6. He took the curve too sharply, and it caused an accident.
Explanation: The comma should be replaced with "and" to create a compound sentence.
Punctuation—Colon:
7. The ingredients for my favorite grilled sandwiches are peanut butter and bananas.
Explanation: The word "ingredients" should not be capitalized, and the extra comma after "butter" should be removed.
8. Studying is exciting: find something about the subject that interests you and resolve to become an expert.
Explanation: No changes are required. The sentence is grammatically correct.
Punctuation—Dash:
9. Pens come in all shapes. My favorite is an ergonomic one shaped like a wishbone.
Explanation: The sentence lacks a dash. Adding a dash after "shapes" connects the two sentences.
10. She ate two-thirds of the pie in one sitting.
Explanation: The sentence is already correctly punctuated. No changes are needed.
Punctuation—Hyphen:
11. The high-rise building is located at 3114 Main Street.
Explanation: "high-rise" should include a hyphen to correctly indicate a compound adjective modifying "building."
Punctuation—Parentheses:
12. No Change
Explanation: The sentence is grammatically correct and does not require any changes.
Punctuation—Square Brackets:
13. No change
Explanation: The sentence is grammatically correct and does not require any changes.
Inclusive Language—Nonsexist Language:
14. We need more employees to finish the job on schedule.
Explanation: "manpower" should be replaced with "employees" to use nonsexist language.
Inclusive Language—Nonracist and Nonagist Language:
15. The person who earned the award was from Louisiana.
Explanation: "Negro" should be replaced with a more respectful term to avoid racial bias.
Inclusive Language—Nonracist and Nonagist Language:
16. It seems that a lot of people were on the bus trip to Laughlin, Nevada.
Explanation: "Golden Ager" should be replaced with a more inclusive term to avoid age bias.
Inclusive Language—Talking about People with Disabilities and Disease:
17. There were a lot of people downtown for a national conference.
Explanation: Mentioning "blind people" without context may single them out. A more inclusive sentence includes all people without mentioning their specific disabilities.
Inclusive Language—Talking about People with Disabilities and Disease:
18. His sister is confined to a wheelchair.
Explanation: Mentioning the specific diseases may perpetuate stereotypes. A more inclusive sentence focuses on the physical condition without mentioning the diseases.
Inclusive Language—Quoting from Biased Material:
19. The political parties and their families were on a tour of the state buildings.
Explanation: "mayors and their wives" should be replaced with a broader term to avoid gender bias.
Inclusive Language—Quoting from Biased Material:
20. No Change
Explanation: The sentence is a historical quote and should not be changed.