Usage Worksheet, Part 2 Directions: For each sentence below, find the error from the section of the Usage Handbook, Part 2. Write the error and the...

Usage Worksheet, Part 2

Directions: For each sentence below, find the error from the section of the Usage Handbook, Part 2. Write the error and the correction below the sentence. If a sentence has no error as listed in the Usage Handbook, write C in the space underneath the sentence next to "Error." In such a case, leave the correction section blank. Keep in mind that the writing would be for an academic audience.

Example: Charlie paints good, so he should go to art school.

                          Error: paints good

                          Correction: paints well

             Example: Charlie paints well, so he should go to art school.

                          Error: C

                          Correction:

1.     We divided the money between the seven of us.

                    Error:

                    Correction:

2.     The amount of cars in the driveway and the yard revealed that there was a party going on next door.

Error:

                    Correction:

3.     I want to go back to Disney World real bad.

Error:

                    Correction:

4.     We seen you at Walmart nearly every day this week.

Error:

                    Correction:

5.     I read the other day where two people were arrested in China for holding hands on a sidewalk downtown.

Error:

Correction:

6.     I could of gone to Spain once for a month to stay with my boss, but I was too shy.

Error:

Correction:

7.     What do we have to loose if we decide not to take a final exam? 

Error:

Correction:

8.     The programs at Charter College are accelerated, so your degree goals are not a long way away.

Error:

Correction: