Exam for Grammar Unit
Correct any errors in grammar or punctuation in the following sentences. Hint: there may be more than one correction in each sentence.
1. Everyone must do their own work, said the professor. 2. While reading the newspaper in the garden the thief entered through the front window. 3. Neither of the unAmerican rallies was really successful. 4. I know a man with a limp named Robert Boulder. 5. At the freshman picnic we saw Jane Smith a pretty girl from Chicago, George Jones an engineering student from Colorado, and Patty Brown, a transfer student from Oberlin. 6. “Those kind of people ought to be locked up.” “They are a nuisance to society,” said my father. 7. Bob said that he was going downtown but I did not see him there. 8. Economics are my favorite subject. 9. He began to slowly rise and quickly walk away. 10. I want you all to memorize this beautifully constructed quotation, said the professor. The quotation is, Once a king, always a king. 11. To be really qualified, each of the students have tor receive a diploma. 12. Mr. Simmons met a friend he hadn’t seen for ten years in Grand Central Station. 13. If you go and I am sure you must go be sure to write us everyday. 14. There us a word that I can never spell, it is howl. 15. The committee has disbanded and gone to their separate homes. 16. To be a political candidate, a man’s political part must nominate him at the convention. 17. I have only two pets but my dog and cat who are very friendly keep me from being lonesomne. 18. The mayor of the city, as well as several alderman, have investigated the charges. 19. Being eighteen, Marilyn’s mother allowed he to apply for a driver’s license. 20. Neither Mr. Jones the mailman nor Mr. Pillsbury the bake are coming to the meeting. 21. People who are quarrelsome should not marry.
22. My neck which was stiff is all right now. 23. A person should always do their best because that impresses their employers. 24. The audience were enthusiastic. However they were not spell bound. 25. The policeman who was one of the men who was investigating the crime yesterday turned in his report. 26. One of the items was a self timing stove. 27. The man stood up and angrily left the room. 28. The evidence indicates if properly interpreted that this man is the robber. 29. The size of the plantations vary. 30. Each of the widely used deordorants were on sale at IGA. 31. There is three kinds of coffee instant, ground, and expresso. 32. Either John or Mary can now pick up their research papers. 33. Carl Rogers, a famous psychologist opens his book by saying It is my contention that science cannot come into being without a personal choice of the values we wish to achieve. And these values we choose to implement will forever lie outside of the science which implements them; the goals we select, the purposes we wish to follow must be outside of the science which achieves them. 34. When they arrested him he was angrily shouting to a mob outside of Macy’s. 35. None of your excuses affects my decision in any way. 36. Sulpha powder is sprinkled on the wound before it is bandaged. 37. This is the only one of the pens which has ink. 38. The knife now loosely dangling no longer appears sinister. 39. The crowd is waiting for their tickets. 40. Around the corner is the firehouse and the police station. 41. On coming into the reception toom, an oil painting of the owner confronts one. 42. Did the president say, “We are now at peace?”
43. Because the sun had faded the material she had to recover the chair.
44. We, though you may be right, dislike to admit that we are wrong. 45. The best thing about television are the commercials. 46. Each of the students must clean their own rooms, said the house director. 47. These dinds of medicines are definitely habit forming. 48. Some islands used for experiments in nuclear fission are no longer habitable. 49. She scarcely is sixteen year old; and yet she is in college. 50. One of the windows which belongs to that house was blown down that street. 51. “Are you coming”? he asked. 52. An up to date pressure cooker was on sale in that auction, it sold for five dollars. 53. The mob was looting the stores along their path. 54. Either Jim or Henry are going to New York for Christmas, however, I bet it will be Henry. 55. We finally got what we wanted permission to hold an off campus dance. 56. When she remembers, he child tries to as generously as she can, share her toys with others. 57. Most of the workers were on strike. 58. Bill dipped the daiseys all three hundred of them in blue dye. 59. When in second grade, his father gave him a bicycle. 60. After many victorious battles, Arthur’s name was spoken by everyone.