Find the error in these sentences...
6. My family includes several serious and responsible members, my sister and I, for example, but even we have next to no influence on public life.
8.Some smaller players will tackle only whoever comes near them, while others will tackle whoever they can catch.
9. Though the first question on the test seemed simple, there were simply too many questions for me to finish on time.
10. There are several runners on the team who are faster in the shorter races than the runners of the opposing team, but in the field events, they are best.
2006-09-17 03:18:53 · 7 answers · asked by Aurora 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
6)You have a run-on sentence. Lose he second comma after "for example." Replace it with a period. Capitalize "But" and you should be alright.
8) Put a period after "them" Capitalize "While". You can also replace the comma after "them" and replace it with a semi-colon (;) since you do have two complete sentences in #8
9) This one is okay as is.
10)Put a period after "team". Capitalize "But" and leave the comma in after "events".
Hope this helps
2006-09-17 03:29:37 · answer #1 · answered by Robert D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
6. My family includes several serious and responsible members. My sister and I for example, but even we have next to no influence on publice life.
8. Some smaller players will only tackle whoever comes near them; while others will tackles whoever they can catch.
9. Although the first question on the test seemed simple, there was simply too many questions for me to finish on time.
10. There are several runners on the team who are faster in the shorter races than the runners of the opposing team, but in the field events they are better.
This is how I would do it, but I don't know how right my answers are.
2006-09-17 03:33:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
6. My family includes several serious and responsible members; my sister and I, for example. But we have next to no influence on public life.
8.Some smaller players will tackle only whoever comes near them, while others players will tackle whoever they can catch.
9. Although the first question on the test seemed simple, there were simply too many questions for me to finish on time.
10. There are several runners on the team who are faster in the shorter races than the runners of the opposing team, but in the field events, the several runners are the best.
I hope that helps, sorry if it doesn't but I really tried my best.
Good luck xxxxxxxxxxxxx
2006-09-17 03:32:53 · answer #3 · answered by before&after 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you only looking for grammar mistakes?
6. It should be my sister and me. The way to figure this out is to take your sister out of the sentence. You would wouldn't say there were several serious and responsible members in your family and then say "I for example." You would use "me."
8. It should be whomever instead of whoever.
9. The sentence seems awkward but I don't see an glaring grammatical errors. Hopefully someone else will be able to help on that one.
10. There is confusion in that sentence as to which team is "best" in the field events, but the grammatical error is that best should be changed to better.
I hope this helps.
People are great at helping. It would help us better though if you let us know what the homework IS. Did your teacher write these sentences and you are supposed to rewrite them to make them better? Or are you supposed to just change correct certain words. I wrote my answers as if you are supposed to just change certain words, not rewrite the sentences.
2006-09-18 06:11:52 · answer #4 · answered by Patti C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
6. change to my sister and me ,drop the comma after I
8. change whoever to whomever
9.OK
10.change There are several runners on the team who are faster in the shorter races than those of the opposing team. However, in the field events, they the best.
2006-09-17 03:42:44 · answer #5 · answered by hollyltstarfleet 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
6. My family includes several serious and responsible members,for example, my sister and myself. 8) Some smaller players will tackle only those who come near them, while others will tackle those they can catch. 9) Though the first question on the test seemed simple, there were too many questions for me to finish in time.
2006-09-17 03:31:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
9. [Although] the first question on the test seemed simple, there were simply too many questions for me to finish on time.
10. There are several runners on the team who are faster in the shorter races than the runners of the opposing team[;] but[,] in the field events, they are best.
Not sure though.
2006-09-17 03:31:26 · answer #7 · answered by frustrated writer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋