Question

"Going to Cedar Point, fields of soy beans all around, in the seat of the car, Joyce riding, and Sue, together." This construction:

(Points : 1)
has a subject and predicate that do not agree in number.

is a sentence fragment.

includes a pronoun that has no appropriate antecedent.

includes a shift in person.

includes a shift in tense.



2. "Everyone in our neighborhood mows their lawn on Saturday, and my street, as a result of that, is pretty." This construction:
(Points : 1)
has one error, a pronoun with no appropriate antecedent.

has two errors, a pronoun with no appropriate antecedent and a shift in tense.

has one error, an inappropriate combination of modifier and noun.

has one error, a lack of grammatical subject.

has two errors, a shift in number and a pronoun with no appropriate antecedent.



3. "Our dog LuLu had broken her leash, and rounding the corner of the house, the shrub caught her in the eye." This statement:
(Points : 1)
includes an inappropriate combination of modifier and noun.

includes a passive construction-one in which the subject receives the action of the predicate rather than producing the action.

includes run-on independent clauses.

includes a shift in person

is a sentence fragment.



4. "Martha, Gates, and Zuggy lifted the piano onto the bed of the truck and Kate tied the legs to the frame with ropes and grounding cable and I watched from the sofa." This statement:
(Points : 1)
includes an inappropriate combination of modifier and noun.

includes a subject and predicate that don't agree.

includes run-on independent clauses.

includes a pronoun with no appropriate antecedent.

is a sentence fragment.



5. "In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Juliet's mother rejected her, because of the power of Lord Capulet, and Juliet rejects the Nurse in the same scene, calling her a 'wicked fiend.'" This statement:
(Points : 1)
has a subject and predicate that don't agree in number.

includes a comma splice.

includes a pronoun with no appropriate antecedent.

includes a shift in person.

includes a shift in tense.



6. "Wondering what to do to avoid punishment and humiliation, now that she was fully alert; Judy took the eggs out of the carton, broke them into the skillet, stirred them with a fork, and cried." This construction:
(Points : 1)
includes a comma splice.

includes a lack of agreement between subject and predicate.

includes an inappropriate use of a semicolon.

includes an inappropriate combination of modifier and noun.

is a sentence fragment.



7. "When they came to our house to visit, although they had never met either of us before, the governor and his wife were nice to my sister and I." This statement:
(Points : 1)
includes an inappropriate use of a comma.

includes a lack of agreement between subject and predicate.

includes a verb in the wrong form.

includes an inappropriate combination of modifier and noun.

has a pronoun in the wrong case (in the subjective case instead of the objective).



8. "After I had laid in the sun for two hours each day for two weeks, however; I was finished with the idea of looking like her." This statement:
(Points : 1)
has one error: a verb in the wrong form.

has two errors, a pronoun with no appropriate antecedent and a verb in the wrong form.

has one error, an inappropriate use of a semicolon.

has two errors, a verb in the wrong form and an inappropriate use of a semicolon.

has one error, a pronoun in the wrong case (in the subjective case instead of the objective).



9. "The study will be conducted with all haste by the Office of Public Mendacity; nevertheless, the Office will fail to blame the culpable." This statement:
(Points : 1)
includes a shift in tense.

includes a passive construction-one in which the subject receives the action of the predicate rather than producing the action.

includes an inappropriate use of a semicolon.

includes a shift in person.

is a sentence fragment.



10. "Dr. Smith had argued that the cure for insomnia could be found in the seeds of apples, and although it was not true, he had made money giving lectures." This statement:
(Points : 1)
includes a shift in tense.

is a sentence fragment.

includes an inappropriate use of a comma.

includes a shift in person.

includes a pronoun with no appropriate antecedent.

Answer 1

you type alot its c dude or dudett

Answer 2

1. is a sentence fragment.

2. has two errors, a shift in number and a pronoun with no appropriate antecedent.

3. includes an inappropriate combination of modifier and noun. (this one is weird - I first thought the dog was rounding around the corner of the house, like running around the corner, but it's the shrub)

4. includes run-on independent clauses.

5. includes a shift in tense

6. includes an inappropriate use of a semicolon.

7. has a pronoun in the wrong case (I instead of me)

8. has two errors, a verb in the wrong form and an inappropriate use of a semicolon. (tricky one with forms of "lay" and "lie")

9.includes a passive construction

10. includes a pronoun with no appropriate antecedent.