Grammatical Sentence Errors

Comma Splice

1. There’s a berserk gorilla at the front door, don’t let him in.
2. I called John, he didn’t know rehearsal had been cancelled.

Quotation Error

1. “We bake all our own pies said the waitress”.

2. The waitress said we bake all our own pies.
3. This is going to be hard to explain sighed Colleen.

Subject-Verb Agreement

The following pronouns are singular: anybody, anyone, anything, each, either, everybody, everyone,
everything, neither, nobody, no one, nothing, one, somebody, someone, and something.

The following pronouns are plural: both, few, many, several.

1. Nobody on our street (throw)(throws) a better fastball than Jim.

2. Many of her jazz lay outs (is)(are) fully extended.
3. Not Nora’s nor Jana’s effort (is)(are) wasted.
4. Some of our tomatoes (is)(are) prize winners!
5. At least one out of 30 of us (forgets)(forget) to come to class on time.

Run-On

1. American students are gradually being taught the metric system then in a few years it will be adopted
officially.
2. Someday you will learn about global warming then it will all make sense.
3. Jane and I went to the mall we were shopping for shoes later we had some pizza at the food court.

Fragment

1. Then the motorist drives up to a window. Where he pays, collects his food, and goes on his merry
way.
2. The movie was action, but I still had difficulty staying awake. Even when the music started to blare.

Identify the grammatical error in these three sentences.

1. For the second time, they laughed at me again. __________________________

2. During my trip to New York, we visited the Metropolitan Museum, went to see a Broadway musical, a
walk in Central Park was nice, and shopped at Century 21. ______________________________

3. Under the bed, covered with dust, Katherine found her accounting textbooks.____________________
 SENTENCE ERRORS - Review

ACROSS DOWN
1. Baked Alaska is scrumptious it is however quite fattening. 1. Soon, you will change career
2. Neither have seen that movie. paths later on in life.
4. When I looked in, the fire was burning, the food cooked, and the people were 3. Today was a beautiful day.
mingling. Rainy, but beautiful.
5. Amy and I quickly ate at the sandwich shop on campus, we hurried to class
afterward.
6. Have you ever seen a germ little Viola asked with curiosity.
7. Red-faced and crying, Mrs. Tan craddled her son in her arms to soothe him.

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