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Avoiding Sentence Errors

Errors Way/s of CorrectingErrors

ErroneousSentences

Corrected Sentences

a. Fragment-group of wordsmasqueradingas a sentence.

Many fragment can becorrected simply bylinking tem up to words!M"#$ %E&' ( S)'*EC+ ,&

,'*C+ tat come beforeor after tem.

,ut of te woods

 +rown too ard

#n te earlymorning

I saw a deer run outof te woods.

The ball was trown

too ard.

Sean rose in the earlymorning.

b. &un onSentence- is atwo or morecompletesentences tatareunintentionallyfused as one.

Wen you use a commato connect twoindependent clauses( itmust be accompanied bya little conunction (and,but, for, nor, yet, or, so).

)se end marks.

# baked te caketis morning( #a0e not frosted ityet.

Eli1abet turned atte sudden noise abird ad crasedinto te picturewindow.

# baked te cake tismorning( but # a0e notfrosted it yet.

Eli1abet turned at tesudden noise. " birdad crased into tepicture window.

c. Misplacedmodi2ers-seems tomodify tewrong word inte sentence.

Simply mo0e te praseor clause tat ismisplaced closer to teword it sould logicallymodify.

We eard te busad crased onte radio.

 +e young girl waswalking wit tedog in a sortskirt.

We eard on the radiotat te bus adcrased.

 +e young girl was in ashort skirt  waswalking wit te dog.

d. 3anglingmodi2er- seemsto modify tewrong word or

no word at allbecause teword it modi2esas beenomitted fromte sentence.

Fi4 a dangling modi2er byadding te word teprase sould modify.

Wile sopping inte store( soesmust be worn.

Wile talking onte pone( te

doorbell rang.

Wile sopping in testore( customer  mustwear soes.

Wile John was talkingon te pone( tedoorbell rang.

e. Faulty5arallelism-occurs wen a

writer fails touse equalgrammaticalstructure.

&ewrite te sentence sotat eac parallel idea ise4pressed in te same

grammatical structure.

Se re0els incocolate( walkingunder te

moonligt( andsongs from te6789s a11 period.

# like swimmingtan to di0e.

Se lo0es eatingcocolate eclairs(taking  moonlit walks(

and singing  classic a11.

Se re0els in sweetchocolate  eclairs(long moonlit  walks(and classic jazz music.

#  like to  swim tan todive.# like  swimming tan

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#. Correct te following erroneous sentences. A. Faulty Parallelism

1. Walking the dog and to clean my room are two of my chores.

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2. My friends never udge me with my actions and what ! say. ________________________________________________________________________________  _ 

". #ane $yre wants %nancial inde&endence and to %nd love. ________________________________________________________________________________  _ 

'. ! enoy eating black chocolate, fruit salad and uice from buko. ________________________________________________________________________________  _ 

B. Dangling Modifer 

. o get the ob, references must be veri%ed. ________________________________________________________________________________  _ 

*. While driving down the highway, a bad collision was seen. ________________________________________________________________________________  _ 

C. Misplaced Modifer 

+. he &ianist &layed a new com&osition sitting in the &iano. ________________________________________________________________________________  _ 

. -ngel boarded the &lane with three suitcase heading toward oracay. ________________________________________________________________________________  _ 

/. We ate the lunch that we had bought slowly. ________________________________________________________________________________  _ 

10.e barely kicked that ball twenty yards. ________________________________________________________________________________  _ 

D. Run-on Sentence

11.! lost the %rst chess game ! won the second.

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12.Miranda was the lead vocalist in her band it was a &unk rock band. ________________________________________________________________________________  _ 

1".Michaela loves to dra horses she is a talented artist. ________________________________________________________________________________  _ 

!. S"uinting Modifer #one is enough$

1'.he store that had the big sale recently went bankru&t. ________________________________________________________________________________ 

 _ 1.What you hear often you will believe.

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1*.hildren who laugh rarely are shy. ________________________________________________________________________________  _ 

F. Fragment 

1+.Whatever the doctor says

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1.!f he returns by tomorrow ________________________________________________________________________________  _