The sentences (or groups of words) below need help. Please review “Sentence Errors,” then rewrite
the following so that each is a grammatically correct sentence.
A. Although it was summer.
B. There is a rally planned for tomorrow.
C. The movie should have won an Academy Award, I thought it was that good.
D. Energy conservation on campus is an important issue that's why emailing assignments to professors
instead of printing them out is a good idea.
E. Since she lit the candle.
F. It was her goal to read one book a week for the rest of her life.
Answers: Answers will vary from student to student, but some answers might be:
A. Although it was summer, I felt cold. See “Sentence Errors,” page 28: “A fragment, literally an
incomplete piece, is a group of words sheared off from or never attached to a sentence. The group of
words may lack a subject, a predicate, a complete thought or any combination of the three.”
B. A rally is planned for tomorrow. See “Sentence Errors,” page 31: “It is and there is are dead
constructions. In most cases, these words merely take up space, performing no function in the
sentence.”
C. The movie should have won an Academy Award; I thought it was that good. See “Sentence Errors,”
page 29: “A run-on sentence doesn’t know when to quit. Rushing forward without proper punctuation,
this construction may actually include two or three complete sentences.”
D. Energy conservation on campus is an important issue. That’s why emailing assignments to
professors instead of printing them out is a good idea. See “Sentence Errors,” page 29: “A run-on
sentence doesn’t know when to quit. Rushing forward without proper punctuation, this construction
may actually include two or three complete sentences.”
E. She lit the candle. See “Sentence Errors,” page 28: “A fragment, literally an incomplete piece, is a
group of words sheared off from or never attached to a sentence. The group of words may lack a
subject, a predicate, a complete thought or any combination of the three.”
F. Her goal was to read one book a week for the rest of her life. See “Sentence Errors,” page 31: “It is
and there is are dead constructions. In most cases, these words merely take up space, performing no
function in the sentence.”
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