Monday, May 24, 2010

Can someone who is good at english please help me?

Identify the errors by name:


1. The bank doors were locked, and whomever was inside remained there until the police officers arrived.


a. Run on sentence


b. Comma error


c. Verb tense error


d. Pronoun case error


e. No error


2. Gestures are a means of communication for everyone, they are essential for the hearing impaired.


a. Run on sentence


b. Sentence fragment


c. Subject Verb disagreement


d. Verb tense error


e. No error


3. Robin has ask me to go to California with her.


a. Subject verb disagreement


b. Run on sentence


c. Incorrect pronoun case


d. Incorrect verb form


e. No error


4. The instructor has asked everyone to bring their own tools to carpentry class.


a. Pronoun antecedent disagreement


b. Unclear pronoun reference


c. Runon sentence


d. Subject verb disagreement


e. No error


5. In many ways, starting college at forty is harder than to start at eighteen.


a. Faulty parallelism


b. Verb tense shift


c. Verb form error


d. Comma error


e. No error

Can someone who is good at english please help me?
Question 3 is is incorrect verb form. Ask should be asked.
Reply:1. d - "whomever" should be "whoever", because it's a subjective use.


2. a - there should be a period after "everyone", although I would prefer to insert the word "but" to make it a compound sentence.


3. d - it should be "has asked"


4. a - "everyone" is singular, but "their" is plural. It should be "his or her" (if the class is mixed). However, "their" has become the common way of expressing this in everyday conversation.


5. a - "starting" is a gerund, "to start" is an infinitive. I would change the infinitive to the gerund form of the verb.
Reply:i can do it if you want ... but what will you gain from it ?? you will get more dependent on others and you will always wait for others to do your homework.....as a result you will never pass from you own efforts
Reply:1. C


2. A


3. D


4. E


5. A


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