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Question

I need to find 10 problems with the following paragraph, I can only find 8. If I don't my cute cuddly little sister will get kicked out of school. JK.
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A four-horse chariot race became part of the ancient Olympics in greece. The race proved to be so popular that they became the opening spectacle at the games. As many as forty chariot drivers competing in the race. Each chariot driver were hired by the owner of the chariot and horses. Sometimes an owner enter as many as seven chariots in the same race.
The competitors has to run laps down a straight track for a total distance of nearly nine miles. When the four horses pulling a chariot turned around to double back down the track. The chariot would swing wildly. As Phaethon discovered when he tried to drive the sun god's chariot, the horses were very hard to control. Spills and collisions occured frequently. As a result, very few of the chariot drivers manages to finish the race.

Answer 1

My shot at the 10 - at least my list has 10 exactly.

1. Greece
2. it became
3. competed
4. was hired
5. entered, or would enter, or might enter
6. competitors had
7. ...track, the chariot
8. Sun God
9. occurred
10. managed

Seem to be comments about the sentence that starts "As Phaeton..." That's a perfectly good sentence. The 'as' part is a long introductory clause, and the sentence subject is 'horses' and predicate is 'were'. You could tag the 'as ' clause by itself on the end of the preceding sentence and it would be a good sentence and make sense, but that is not what the writer intended an dthere is no grammatical error there.

Answer 2

A four-horse chariot race became part of the ancient Olympics in (G)reece.
The race proved to be so popular that (it) became the opening spectacle at the games.
As many as forty chariot drivers compet(ed) in the race.
Each chariot driver (was) hired by the owner of the chariot and horses.
Sometimes an owner enter(ed) as many as seven chariots in the same race.
The competitors (had) to run laps down a straight track for a total distance of nearly nine miles.
When the four horses pulling a chariot turned around to double back down the track(,) the chariot would swing wildly
(-)as Phaethon discovered when he tried to drive the (Sun) god's chariot, the horses were very hard to control.
Spills and collisions occured frequently.
As a result, very few of the chariot drivers manage(d) to finish the race.

Answer 3

A four-horse chariot race became part of the ancient Olympics in Greece.( Capitalize Greece) The race proved to be so popular that they became the opening spectacle at the games. As many as forty chariot drivers competed ( Past tense) in the race. Each chariot driver was ( past tense) hired by the owner of the chariot and horses. Sometimes an owner entered ( past tense) as many as seven chariots in the same race.
The competitors had ( past tense) to run laps down a straight track for a total distance of nearly nine miles. When the four horses pulling a chariot turned around to double back down the track, ( Add cooma) the ( not a capital) chariot would swing wildly. As Phaethon discovered when he tried to drive the sun god's chariot, the horses were very hard to control. Spills and collisions occured frequently. As a result, very few of the chariot drivers managed ( past tense) to finish the race.

Answer 4

1. Greece should be capitalized
2. In the second sentence, they should be changed to it.
3. Sentence 3, competing should be changed to competed.
4. Sentence 4, were should be changed to was.
5. Sentence 5, should be would enter instead of just enter.
6. Sentence 6, change has to had.
7. Sentence seven is a fragment, you should replace the period at the end with a comma.
8. Sentence 8 is also a fragment, which could be corrected using the recommendation above.
9. Sun God should be capitalized.
10. Sentence 10 should begin with therefore because the transition is awkward.
11. Sentences 10 and eleven would flow better if a semicolon was used in place of the period
12. In the last sentence, manages should be changed to managed

Answer 5

1.Capitalize Greece. 2. It not they became... 3. competed not competing 4. was hired not were 5.an owner entered not enter 6. the competitors had not has 7. comma after nine miles, lower case w 8. comma after pulling a chariot 9. occurred is misspelled 10. managed not manages

Answer 6

Okay -- by sentence #

1- Greece needs to be capitalized.
2 - race needs to be plural (i.e. races)
3 - third sentence is a sentence fragment
4 - problem in verb - were should be was because driver is singular
5. enter should be entered (verb tense)
6 - has should be had (verb tense)
7 - sentence fragment
8 - sentence fragment -- combine with sentence 7 and delete period to make this a complete sentence
9 - occurred has two r's, not one (spelling)
10 - manages should be managed (tense)