English Skills with Readings 7th Edition by John Langan

Exercise 110

Identify the sentence-skills mistakes at the underlined spots in the paragraph that follows. From the box below, choose the letter that describes each mistake and write it in the space provided. The same mistake may appear more than once.
a. fragment
b. run-on
c. mistake in verb tense
d. mistake in irregular verb
e. missing comma after introductory words
f. mistake with quotation marks
g. apostrophe mistake
Deceptive Appearances
Appearances can be deceptive. While looking through a library window yesterday, I saw a neatly groomed woman walk by. Her clothes were skillfully
makeup was perfect.
crumpled a piece of paper in her hand.

Suddenly she no longer
attractive to me. On another occasion, I started talking to a person in my psychology class named Eric. Eric seemed o be a great person. He always got the class laughing with his
the days when Eric was absent, I think even the professor missed his lively personality. Eric asked me
and I felt happy he had
me to be a friend.
Eric took out an envelope with several kinds of pills inside. "Want one " he asked. "They're uppers." I didn't want
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felt disappointed.
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terrific personality was the product of the pills he took.
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