Mastering Writing Skills: Corrections and Word Usage Practice
Enhance your writing prowess with a hands-on practice session focusing on sentence correction and proper usage of commonly confused words like affect/effect and accept/except. Engage in a guided exercise to refine your writing skills and strengthen your language proficiency.
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Write the following sentences, and then make corrections with a different colored pen or pencil. Explain why you made each correction.
there are several steps necessary to repair a broken window first remove the putty second remove the points or nails then replace the broken one with a new one we would of froze during the storm but we seen a shelter that protected us from the high winds coming off of the rocky mountains
Write the following sentences, and then make corrections with a different color pen. Explain why you made each correction.
my sister she dont always have time to visit us on our Birthdays but she does send presents she has publish a novel entitled mysterious manor and sold a painting named remembrances
Write down and define the following commonly confused words. Write a sentence properly using each word.
Than, Then Sentence: Sentence: Affect, Effect Sentence: Sentence:
Write down and define the following commonly confused words. Write a sentence properly using each word.
Accept, Except Sentence: Sentence: Your, You re Sentence: Sentence:
Write the following sentences, and then make corrections with a different color pen. Explain why you made each correction.
i would rather eat mexicanfood then eat italianfood rising oil prices will have an affect on nearly every one
Write the following sentences, and then make corrections with a different color pen. Explain why you made each correction.
i need to decide which college offer to except mom yelled up the stairs you need to clean you re room
Comma Splicing! A run-on sentence is a sentence that joins two independent clauses without punctuation or the appropriate conjunction. A comma splice is similar to a run-on sentence, but it uses a comma to join two clauses that have no appropriate conjunction.
Rachel is very smart, she began reading when she was three years old. OR Rachel is very smart; she began reading when she was three years old. Now, Make these right I love you, you love me. My family bakes together nearly every night, we then get to enjoy everything we make together.
There are 3 instances when you can use a semicolon to improve the conventions in your writing. Review the following rules & then write one sentence implementing each rule.
Lynn and Pat are friends. Every week they get coffee. Becomes Lynn and Pat are friends;every week they get coffee.
Kim never exercises. She is very out of shape. Becomes .. Kim never exercises;consequently, she is very out of shape.
There are basically two ways to write: with a pen or pencil, which is inexpensive and easily accessible;or by computer and printer, which is more expensive but quick and neat. *Your Turn-Write a sentence for each rule.
