Training Your Editor's Eye -- 4
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.
- If they read about diseases of the elderly, college students sometimes
transcend
what they learned to their older relatives.
[ Answer ]
- The magazine explains issues of importance to
reader's
who don't usually follow politics.
[ Answer ]
- My article will include interviews with
predominate
figures like Oprah Winfrey and Jesse Jackson for their
incites
into the election.
[ Answer ]
- A professional appearance is about more than the
close
you
where.
[ Answer ]
- New fashions are adopted through a kind of
Domino's affect.
[ Answer ]
- The magazine
expresses
women as if they were fashion accessories for men.
[ Answer ]
- Instantaneous perceptions set off neural reactions in your head without
you
even being aware of them.
[ Answer ]
- Headline: 'Shoe-assault
served Bush well
some US citizens say.'
[ Answer ]
- This plan will allow citizens to reduce their health insurance by
100 to 150 percent.
[ Answer ]
- The section of the bag containing the laptop must completely unfold to
lay
flat on the X-ray belt.
[ Answer ]
- As a magazine that provides helpful features for parents with young children,
my article
would provide a window onto the lives of children of deaf parents.
[ Answer ]
- A
400 pound
black bear was calmly going through the trash, licking out the remaining contents of broken eggs and
candy-rappers.
[ Answer ]
- Apple's future, like all technology companies' futures,
are
squarely dependent upon innovation.
[ Answer ]
- The leaks were brought to a quick end in 1997 by the return of [Apple CEO Steve] Jobs, whose personal concern for secrecy is
tantamount.
[ Answer ]
- The solution to these and other social disparities
lie
in a revolution of thinking
[ Answer ]
- Although his
experience
are unique, there are parts of Barack Obama that every American can directly connect with.
[ Answer ]
- I think the research is
bias
against working-class kids.
[ Answer ]
- He bought my friend and
I
drinks and even bought me roses.
[ Answer ]
- Terry and Michelle never sat down and discussed
there
relationship
[ Answer ]
- In Phoenix on Wednesday, more than 200 men in shackles and prison stripes were marched under armed guard past a
gantlet
of TV cameras to a tent prison encircled by an electric fence.
[ Answer ]
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