Activity One: Punctuate the following sentences: (6 pts)
1. “Ouch!” yelled Cecilia, “You are stepping on my toes.” 1.75
2. Tomas, nearly bursting with joy, showed his family through his gorgeous newly renovated home. 0.5
3. Frost’s poem, “Stepping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” contains these haunting: “lines the woods are lovely dark and deep”. 1.50
4. Dr Hussain works at City Hospital on Dudley Road. 1
5. Do you know where he was going instead? He was going fishing. What a naughty man!
1.25
Activity Two: Eliminate wordiness from the coming sentences: (3 pts)
1. The theater has three main technical areas. These areas are costumes, scenery, and lighting.
The theater has three main technical areas, costumes, scenery, and lighting. 1
2. Women who have jobs and also keep house have many problems. These women have little time for recreation. Often these women do not get enough sleep.
Women who have jobs and also keep house have little time for recreation and do not get enough sleep. 1
3. We flew by air to Cleveland and returned back by bus.
We flew to Cleveland and returned back by bus. 1
Activity Three: Determine whether the following sentences are “run-ons,” “comma splices” or “fragments” then correct each. (7 pts)
1. While it is true that industrialization is harming the environment. Fragment 1
*It is true that industrialization is harming the environment.
* industrialization is harming the environment.
2. Bears’ females give birth to as many as four cubs, the cubs stay with their mother two or three years. Comma splice 1
Bears’ females give birth to as many as four cubs, and the cubs stay with their mother two or three years.
Bears’ females give birth to as many as four cubs; the cubs stay with their mother two or three years.
Bears’ females give birth to as many as four cubs. The cubs stay with their mother two or three years.
3. The kids aren’t up yet, so I enjoying the peace and quiet while I can. Fragment 1
The kids aren’t up yet, so I am enjoying the peace and quiet while I can.
…………………… I enjoy………………………………………………………………
4. The teacher grading papers with a red pen. Fragment 1
The teacher grades papers with a red pen.
5. School in Munich was too rigid and boring for young Einstein he did not do well. RUN-ON 1
School in Munich was too rigid and boring for young Einstein. He did not do well.
School in Munich was too rigid and boring for young Einstein; therefore, he did not do well.
Because school in Munich was too rigid and boring for young Einstein, he did not do well.
6. Although obesity requires a person to modify the diet. Fragment 1
Obesity requires a person to modify the diet.
7. The Maya lived in Central America their descendants still live there. RUN-On 1
The Maya lived in Central America; their descendants still live there
The Maya lived in Central America, and their descendants still live there
Activity four: Combine the following pairs of sentences into a compound sentence, then, into a complex sentence: ( 2 pts)
The sun had risen. We resumed our journey.
a compound sentence
The sun had risen; therefore, we resumed our journey. 1
The sun had risen; thus, we resumed our journey.
a complex sentence
When the sun had risen, we resumed our journey. 1
Activity five: Edit and correct the following long sentence: (2 pts)
Although the blue whale has been protected for over 30 years, and its numbers are increasing, especially in the North Pacific, it is still at risk of extinction. As its habitat is being polluted by waste from oil tankers, and its main food, the plankton, is being killed off by harmful rays from the sun, which can penetrate the earth’s atmosphere because there is a huge hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica.
Td mark evaluation= 7attendance _1Behaviour _ 2Activities in class and homework =8 QUIZ _ 2 class work and participation.
- Enseignant: LAILA AIOUNI