English Skills with Readings 7th Edition by John Langan

Exercise 134

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. faulty parallelism
d. missing apostrophe
e. missing quotation mark
f. missing comma between two complete thoughts
g. missing comma after introductory words
h. misspelled word
Anxiety and the Telephone
Not many of us would want to do without our home telephone
there are times when the phone is a source of anxiety. For example, you might be walking up to your front door.
You struggle to find your key, to nlock the door, and
to the phone quickly. You know the phone will stop ringing the instant you pick up the
you wonder if you missed the call that would have made you a
or introduced you to the love of your life. Another time, you may have called in sick to work with a phony excuse. All day long,
afraid to leave the house in case the boss calls back.

In addition, you worry that you might unthinkingly pick up the phone and say in a cheerful voice,
completely
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to use your fake cough. In cases like
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having a telephone is more of a curse than a blessing.
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