Unit 1 Grammar Review: Spelling, Capitalization, and Semicolons

How should the spelling error in this sentence be corrected?

The democratic rules of debate and voting are violated when Napoleon uses his trained dogs to viciously attack Snowball, sieze control, and monopolize power.

• Change sieze to seize

• Change violated to violateed

• Change monopolize to monopalize

• No change needs to be made to this sentence.

How should the spelling error in this sentence be corrected?

The bedraggled chihuahua in the torrential rain was the most pityable creature imaginable.

• Change torrential to torrencial

• Change pityable to pitiable

• Change imaginable to imagineable

• No change needs to be made to this sentence.

How should the spelling error in this sentence be corrected?

By constantly discusing their shared dream, Ryne and Lennie inspire themselves to work toward an incredibly difficult goal.

• Change constantly to constanly

• Change discusing to discussing

• Change incredibly to incredibally

• No change needs to be made to this sentence.

How should the spelling error in this sentence be corrected?

Technological advances have brought miraculous solutions to problems as well as consequences to could not be forseen

• Change Technological to Technologycal

• Change solutions to soluteions

• Change forseen to foreseen

• No change needs to be made to this sentence

How should this salutation be changed?

my dear Mrs. Cantwell,

• Change the word my to My

• remove the word my and change dear to Dear

• Change the words my dear to My Dear

• No change needs to be made to this salutation

How should this sentence be changed?

We did not begin cleaning up the banquet hall until the early hours of dawn: People had stayed for hours after dinner.

• Change stayed to Stayed

• Change People to people

• Change dawn to Dawn

• No change needs to be made to this sentence.

How should this sentence be changed?

The reporter characterized the scene as one of "Complete and absolute chaos."

• Capitalize reporter

• Do not capitalize Complete

• Capitalize absolute

• No change needs to be made to this sentence.

How should this sentence be changed?

Skloot tells of asking her high school science teacher for details about Henrietta Lacks, and her teacher's response was, "I wish I could tell you...but no one knows anything about her."

• Do not capitalize Skloot

• Do not capitalize Henrietta Lacks

• Capitalize but

• No change needs to be made to this sentence.

What change would correct the error in this sentence?

The old car needed new tires, furthermore, the paint was scratched, and the fender was bent.

• Change the comma after tires to a semicolon

• Change the comma after furthermore to a semicolon

• Change the comma after scratched to a semicolon.

• No change needs to be made to this sentence.

What change would correct the error in this sentence?

Jack has never been deliberately unkind; he is pleasant to everyone; friend or foe.

• Change the semicolon after the clause "Jack has never been deliberately unkind" to a comma

• Change both semicolons to commas

• Change the semicolon after the phrase "he is pleasant to everyone" to a comma

• No change needs to be made to this sentence