Which underlined word or phrase contains an error? Rewrite each sentence to correct the error.
1. Congratulations! You did good with your report.
2. The laboratory's new robot easily corrected it's mistake.
3. Yesterday, somebody left their bag at the library.
4. She is a better dancer than them.
5. Across the street, beside the blue truck, is my brother's Labrador puppies.
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27 August 2010
Quiz #6: Capitalization
Correct each sentence by using capitalization correctly.
1. in 1849 more than 90 percent of the approximately 6,000 chinese lived in or around manila.
2. the legendary founder of music in chinese mythology was ling lun, who made bamboo pipes tuned to the sounds of birds.
3. dalai lamas are the most influential figure in the gelugpa sect of tibetan buddhism.
4. the word tsinoy, which is derived from tsino (chinese) and pinoy (slang term for filipino), is a filipino of chinese ethnicity but born or raised in the Philippines.
5. many of chinese-filipino catholics still tend to practice the traditional chinese religions side by side with catholicism.
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1. in 1849 more than 90 percent of the approximately 6,000 chinese lived in or around manila.
2. the legendary founder of music in chinese mythology was ling lun, who made bamboo pipes tuned to the sounds of birds.
3. dalai lamas are the most influential figure in the gelugpa sect of tibetan buddhism.
4. the word tsinoy, which is derived from tsino (chinese) and pinoy (slang term for filipino), is a filipino of chinese ethnicity but born or raised in the Philippines.
5. many of chinese-filipino catholics still tend to practice the traditional chinese religions side by side with catholicism.
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01 August 2010
Quiz #5: Run-on
Rewrite these sentences to correct the run-on errors and comma splices.
1. Anna Sui is a Chinese-American fashion designer she has her own brand “Anna Sui” and produces lines of women’s clothing, accessories, cosmetic and fragrance that are retailed through stores and boutiques in over 50 countries.
2. Lucy Liu personifies the harmonious balance between Chinese cultural heritage and the American freedom experienced by Asian women living in the United States, in 2005 Lucy Liu was a U.S. Fund for UNICEF Ambassador.
3. Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese opposition politician and was General Secretary of the National League for Democracy, she has remained under house arrest in Myanmar for almost 14 out of the past 20 years.
4. Maria Corazon Cojuangco-Aquino was the 11th President of the Philippines and the first woman to hold that office she is revered by many Filipinos as an icon of Democracy and hailed by TIME Magazine in 1986 as its 'Woman of the Year.'
5. Xuē Xīnrán is a British-Chinese journalist and broadcaster, born in Beijing in 1958, in the late 1980s, she began working for Chinese Radio and went on to become one of China's most successful journalists.
ASIAN WOMEN
1. Anna Sui is a Chinese-American fashion designer she has her own brand “Anna Sui” and produces lines of women’s clothing, accessories, cosmetic and fragrance that are retailed through stores and boutiques in over 50 countries.
2. Lucy Liu personifies the harmonious balance between Chinese cultural heritage and the American freedom experienced by Asian women living in the United States, in 2005 Lucy Liu was a U.S. Fund for UNICEF Ambassador.
3. Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese opposition politician and was General Secretary of the National League for Democracy, she has remained under house arrest in Myanmar for almost 14 out of the past 20 years.
4. Maria Corazon Cojuangco-Aquino was the 11th President of the Philippines and the first woman to hold that office she is revered by many Filipinos as an icon of Democracy and hailed by TIME Magazine in 1986 as its 'Woman of the Year.'
5. Xuē Xīnrán is a British-Chinese journalist and broadcaster, born in Beijing in 1958, in the late 1980s, she began working for Chinese Radio and went on to become one of China's most successful journalists.
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