Training Your Editor's Eye -- 1
Writers and editors must develop the skill of identifying errors -- and
of identifying the kinds of places errors are most likely to occur.
This exercise provides practice in identifying errors that need to be
fixed.
Instructions:
- Find a problem in each sentence.
- On a computer: Move the cursor over it (do not click).
On a tablet: Tap on the error.
- If the text turns red, read the pop-up with our comment.
- Tap or hover over [ Answer ] to see an explanation.
- On a tablet, tapping the error a second time removes the pop-up.
- MercExchange will have
to make due
with a royalty payment.
[ Answer ]
- The war could
effect
the election in ways that are entirely unpredictable.
[ Answer ]
- Though still in mourning for his two friends, Joe said he knows
their
both in heaven.
[ Answer ]
- In the days leading up to the passage of the Civil Rights Act, it was voting and community involvement that
affected
change.
[ Answer ]
- I could
barley
see because my eyes were so swollen from crying.
[ Answer ]
- The National Examiner can be
attributed to
helping celebrities keep themselves in the spotlight.
[ Answer ]
- When being interviewed, some people think they can just say, "Off the record," and continue talking
without
impunity.
[ Answer ]
- The new plan doesn’t
phase
them at all.
[ Answer ]
- I wanted to use my experience as a nursing student to help other people
prevent
going through what I went through.
[ Answer ]
- What are you
eluding
to?
[ Answer ]
- The second page of the magazine's table of contents
are
divided into sections.
[ Answer ]
- The article encourages readers to combat
whomever
is not in agreement with their point of view.
[ Answer ]
- As an
inspiring
music producer, I decided that business management would be the better major for me.
[ Answer ]
- The victory goes not to the swift or the strong, but to
he
who endures to the end.
[ Answer ]
- When a celebrity comes out with a new clothing line, thousands
flee
to retail stores to purchase
their
brand.
[ Answer ]
- Instances like this
leaves
me with no other choice but to believe that the media
has
a strong influence on Americans.
[ Answer ]
- Everyone has an individual
that
they
admire and look to for advice.
[ Answer ]
- But after a while, he realized that I was there to help him, and we started to develop a
repartee.
[ Answer ]
- [Headline] Therapy Watch: Should I See a
He or a She?
[ Answer ]
- With so many extra things on my plate, I totally
loss
focus in school.
[ Answer ]
- Montgomery went on to say though participating in extracurricular activities
are
beneficial, students often allow such activities to crowd out schoolwork.
[ Answer ]
- Students have issues like everyone else, and those issues
attribute
to why many students do not graduate on time.
[ Answer ]
- "My daddy was a big part of why I was in college, and for him not to be here was hard for me," said Loftley as she
gazes
at a picture of her deceased father.
[ Answer ]
- These deadly cells have
took
the lives of many cancer victims as various forms of treatment have
came
and gone.
[ Answer ]
- He has been
dismiss
from the football team as a result of his drug use.
[ Answer ]
- Her excessive intake of stolen Metabolife Ultra in
concoction
with dwindling food consumption transformed her into an anorexic.
[ Answer ]
- This is the girl
whom,
Cash said, started the fight.
[ Answer ]
- Some children used cellphones to call their parents, and a
couple
families drove over.
[ Answer ]
- After four years of intense college work, he
matriculated
with a bachelor's degree.
[ Answer ]
- Hopkins has seen the
affects
of exercise on her life.
[ Answer ]
- She felt
blind sighted
by the unexpected diagnosis.
[ Answer ]
- She also added that before students "begin to have sex with a new partner and before pregnancy"
he or she
should be tested for the virus.
[ Answer ]
- Williams is now
25-years-old.
[ Answer ]
- Since indifference, absence, and chicken biscuits don't equal academic success, I had earned a less than
salacious
college GPA of 1.5.
[ Answer ]
- As
me and two friends
walked the streets of
Amsterdam
we saw the Anne Frank house.
[ Answer ]
- Many people gave emotional support to my parents and
I
.
[ Answer ]
- The injured man lay a in a deep
comma.
[ Answer ]
- This problem began when I was about
seven-years-old.
[ Answer ]
- Work started every day at
six-o-clock in the morning.
[ Answer ]
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