Question

Identify and explain the type of errors in each of the following sentences. Correct the errors

1. The hungry child walked to the table and asked for some of the food slowly.

2. In anger,Mensa struck the monkey with the book on the head.

3. Robert Mensah’s agility as a goalkeeper was like a cat.

4. I never liked my stepmother,she was a pain in the neck.

5. Because their teacher was absent. The children played all day.

6. What the company asked for were his curriculum vitae together with his certificates and a passport-sized picture.

7. Either the children or their mother like loud music.

8. All newly-enrolled students were required to register at their halls and passport-sized pictures were to be presented at this point.

9. The monkeys chattered loudly,swung from branch to branch and their fruit was being eaten gleefully.

10. Seshie sited Aggrey’s famous saying on the importance of educating females as the reason for educating his girls.

Answer 1

1. The sentence is grammatically correct, but for conciseness, it could be improved to "The hungry child walked to the table and asked for food quietly."
2. The sentence has a capitalization error. The correct sentence is "In anger, Mensa struck the monkey with the book on the head."
3. The sentence is grammatically correct, but could be improved for conciseness to "Robert Mensah was agile like a cat as a goalkeeper."
4. The sentence is grammatically correct, but could be improved for conciseness to "I never liked my stepmother; she was a pain."
5. The sentence has a missing conjunction. The correct sentence is "Because their teacher was absent, the children played all day."
6. The sentence is grammatically correct.
7. The sentence has a subject-verb agreement error. The correct sentence is "Either the children or their mother likes loud music."
8. The sentence is grammatically correct, but could be improved for conciseness to "All newly enrolled students must register at their halls and present passport-sized photos."
9. The sentence has a comma splice error and could be improved for conciseness. The correct sentence is "The monkeys chattered loudly, swung from branch to branch, and ate their fruit gleefully."
10. The sentence has a spelling error. The correct sentence is "Seshie cited Aggrey's famous saying on the importance of educating females as the reason for educating his girls."