English Skills with Readings 7th Edition by John Langan

Exercise 17

See if you can locate and correct the ten sentence-skills mistakes in the following passage. The mistakes are listed in the box below. As you locate each mistake, write the number of the word group containing that mistake. Use the spaces provided. Then (on separate paper) correct the mistakes.
2 fragments _____ _________
2. missing commas between items in a series _______ _________
2 faulty parallelisms _________ _________
2 missing commas around an interrupter ________ __________
1 apostrophe mistake ________
1 run-on _________
A Place of Fear
1 College is supposed to be a place of discovery. 2 But for some students can be a place of fear. 3 In the classroom for example many students are afraid of appearing dumb in front of their classmates or professors. 4 Such students often try to hide in class by sitting in the back of the room. 5 Avoiding eye contact with instructors. 6 Fear prevents them from raising their hands answering questions or being part of class discussions. 7 Fear also leads to problems outside the classroom. 8 Worried that their peers wont like them, many college students smoke or drinking heavily to blend in with the crowd. 9 They also try drugs or joining in hurtful pranks they may even practice unsafe sex out of fear. 10 Finally, students who get into trouble are often too scared to seek help in solving their problems.