+1 862 207 3288 Instructions
In lieu of a self-check assignment, your task for this lesson is a practice exam designed to prepare you for the final exam. Use the pages provided in this document to complete each activity, and submit your work via the Moodle Assignments tool.
Note: If you use Track Changes in preparing your exam, be sure to submit your answers in final form, not with the markup changes visible.
Part 1: Grammar, Style, and Factual Errors
Correct the errors in the following sentences. Watch for and repair grammatical problems, unnecessary wordiness, factual errors, and other mistakes that we have addressed in the course.
1. Since the overthrow of Communism in eastern Germany in 1988, there has been marked increases in immigration from that former Soviet republic toward the west.
2. According to what the survey found, those residents of the Greater Chicago, IL area that drive mini-vans are more likely to have children, take trips and to eat out at an average of 2 fast food restaurants per week.
3. According to Murphy’s Law is the reason a piece of bread will always land butter-side-up.
4. The pair of books one will find on the night-table by Jim’s bed-side consists of the Baghavad Gita and William Faulkner’s The Grapes Of Wrath.
5. The strange spacecraft hovered above earth for several minutes before finally descending somewhere in the Rio Grande River Valley in Southern Utah.
6. My brother who was born on June 29, 1947 claims he has some vague memories of the Eisenhower-Truman race to be President, but how could someone whose 5 years old remember something like that?
7. In terms of correcting grammatical errors, one of the basics one must know has to do with comma splices, if you don’t get that you don’t have any business charging someone else to edit their work.
8. Running behind schedule, the airport concourse seemed endless as he proceeded to rush quickly to catch his plane before it took him off into the wild blue yonder.
9. Basically, the project is likely to result in a minor population increase in the City from families that are relocating in to the gentrified neighborhood from other areas in outlaying communities. [Hint: Use the verb attract]
10. By parking a vehicle in a position in which the driveway of a firehouse is blocked is in violation of any number of rules and regulations.
Part 2: Punctuation and Paragraphs
Correct the punctuation and paragraphing in the following narrative.
“Molly” my stylist Charlotte said. “it’s time you did something with that hair of your’s.
“But . . . . but I’ve had a shag since the 1980s’s. It’s like totally me.
Charlotte glared at me in the mirror. “I don’t know how to tell you this,” she said, “But that hairdo has gone out of fashion
I’m crushed, I said. When I first got it it was all the rave. Look, Charlotte replied frowning. This salon ain’t called The Cutting Edge for nothing.”
Part 3: Comments and Queries
Read the beginning of the story “From Hero to Mountain Goat,” by Rex M. Frisch. Using the space provided at the end of this exam, write a one- or two-page letter to the author with general and specific observations about this first section of his novella. You are not required to do an actual copyedit, but feel free to do so if you wish.
Let the games begin, Jill Marcus says loudly, Snow-shoers, get ready.
It was a very cold winter day in January 1986 when the Freeborn County winter games got underway. More than 1,500 persons from across the County were in attendance in one form or another, either as participants, judges or organizers.
Yet still there is one man who has made the decision not to participate in anyway. Old Jack Nelson, the one real, true Olympian the town has ever known in its long history is going to sit this one out thank you very much, maam. World-class skier, slalom champion, even a star athlete on the downhill ski jump, the town had long ago forgotten Jack Nelson – forgotten his legacy and his many an accomplishment.
Why? There was of course the matter of a woman. Isn’t there always.
She was not any woman, folks might be quick to point out to you. Perhaps it’s true that Jack Nelsen had brought fame and glory and notoriety to the little town but Princess Katrina brought it ever so much more.
She had arrived in 1956, in order to serve as a representative of a small monarchy east of France, a country which had long since disappeared off the face of school-room maps. Princess Katrina’s trip had been arranged by the Governor whose parents were past immigrants from that great nation. As a Goodwill gesture, Governor Janos suggested that pats hostilities between the two countries could be smoothened over with just such a thing.
And so, now, Jack Nelsen finds himself hosting a lovely princess. Jack Nelsen who had in high school been scorned down by nearly every one but who’d come home from the Winter games in Grenoble France as a hero, and suddenly each of them were his best friends.
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