English Skills with Readings 7th Edition by John Langan

Exercise 26

See if you can locate and correct the ten sentence-skills mistakes in the following passages. 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 ______ _______
1 run-on _______
1 irregular verb mistake ________
1 missing comma between items in a series _______
1 missing comma after introductory words _______
2 apostrophe mistakes _______ ________
1 faulty parallelism ________
1 missing quotation mark _________
Fred's Funeral
1 Sometimes when Fred feels undervalued and depression, he likes to imagine his own funeral. 2 He pictures all the people who will be there. 3 He hears their hushed words sees their tears, and feels their grief. 4 He glows with warm sadness as the minister begins a eulogy by saying, Fred Grencher was no ordinary man..." 5 As the minister talks on Freds eyes grow moist. 6 He laments his own passing and feels altogether appreciated and wonderful.
Feeding Time
7 Recently I was at the cat house in the zoo. 8 Right before feeding time. 9 The tigers and lions were lying about on benches and little stands. 10 Basking in the late-afternoon sun. 11 They seemed tame and harmless. 12 But when the meat was brung in, a remarkable change occurred. 13 All the cats got up and moved toward the food. 14 I was suddenly aware of the rippling muscles' of their bodies and their large claws and teeth. 15 They seemed three times bigger, I could feel their power.