English Skills with Readings 7th Edition by John Langan

Exercise 35

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.
1 run-on
1 mistake in subject-verb agreement _______
1 missing comma after introductory words ________
2 missing commas around an interrupter _______ ________
1 missing comma between items in a series __________
2 apostrophe mistakes ________ _________
2 missing quotation marks _________ _________
Walking Billboards
] Many Americans have turned into driving, walking billboards. 2 As much as we all claim to hate commercials on television we dont seem to have any qualms about turning ourselves into commercials. 3 Our car bumpers for example advertise lake resorts underground caverns, and amusement parks. 4 Also, we wear clothes marked with other peoples initials and slogans. 5 Our fascination with the names of designers show up on the backs of our sneakers, the breast pockets of our shirts, and the right rear pockets of our blue jeans. 6 And we wear T-shirts filled with all kinds of advertising messages. 7 For instance, people are willing to wear shirts that read, "Dillon Construction," "Nike," or even I Got Crabs at Ed's Seafood Palace. 8 In conclusion, we say we hate commercials, we actually pay people for the right to advertise their products.