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Grammar Exercise (remembering)

Revise the following, if necessary, to remove any sentence level errors.

Fragments

1) Snow hardens into glaciers. Which cover roughly ten percent of the earth's land.

2) Tofu. Made from soybeans.

3) Melanie, in the film, "Gone With The Wind. Played by Olivia de Havilland.
4) In computer science, a bit is the smallest unit of information. A blend of b(inary) and (dig)it.

Run-on sentence and comma splices

1) Different types of engines, including gas turbines, could reduce this weight significantly these types of engines are now being developed.

  1. Passing the buck had a literal origin it meant passing the knife and the deal.
  2. Auto companies around the world are now producing prototypes for cars that are vastly different from those that are now on the road new technologies have made these prototypes possible.
  3. Electric cars now carry batteries weighing nearly half a ton, this small engine for producing electricity might weigh only a couple of hundred pounds.
  4. Fontina is a mild and relatively soft cheese which is suitable for slicing or spreading, aged provolone is a sharp and hard cheese which is suitable for grating.

Dangling modification

  1. Reading Ellison's novel, "Invisible Man," the ending frustrated me greatly.
  2. Drinking a bottle of soda, an ambulance ran through the street.
  3. While looking at the accident, a police car arrived to investigate it.

 

 

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