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Assignment:
Read the following sentences for errors in parallel structure. Correct the sentence by rewriting it. Not all sentences are incorrect.
1. My dog is not only friendly but he is also playful.
2. We can go to the park or out dancing.
3. Jeremy likes to read historical, realistic and speculative fiction.
4. Tell Michael I said he can either do homework now or later.
5. Buying a car is not a decision to take lightly nor be careless about.
Decide whether each of the following word groups is a SENTENSE or FRAGMENT.
1. Taking a canoe trip in Canada.
2. Sufficient food for a week's journey.
3. Others had camped there before us.
4. Ashes indicated the place.
5. Where their fire had been
Decide which of the following groups of words are run-on sentences. Revise each run-on sentence to make the sentence correct. Write S if the sentence is correct.
1. Pangolins include the mongooses and the lemurs , the native animals in the Philippines.
2. Pangolins are nocturnal, and their diet consists of mainly ants and termites
3. Pangolins are trafficked by the thousands for their scales which are boiled off their bodies for use in traditional medicine.
4. Pangolins are the only mammals in the world with scaly armor around the body they are in danger of extinction because of illegal hunting
5. They do not have teeth and are unable to chew, they have long sticky tongues that they use to catch the insects they feed on.
Revise the following sentences to make it more effective. Suggest as many ways as possible.
1. Sometimes violent storms arose and then the workers sought shelter in the huts.
2. The treaty was signed at Panmunjon in 1953, and Korea was still not a united country.
3. The fate of the new airplane design appears grim and many airlines have decided not to buy the supper-speedy plane.
4. Ecological deterioration, overpopulation, and natural resource depletion are serious problems and we are spending billions of pesos on new weapons of destruction.
5. Society has changed radically during the past fifty years and most children still grow up to live the same kind of lives their parents did.
Identify what figure of speech was used in the sentence
1. "Death! Where is thy sting? O Grave! Where is thy victory?"
a. Simili
b. Metaphor
c. Apostrophe
2. He was as brave as a lion.
a. Simili
b. Metaphor
c. Apostrophe
3. "My love is like a red rose..."
a. Simili
b. Metaphor
c. Personification
4. The wind wrapped its icy fingers around my body.
a. Simili
b. Metaphor
c. Personification
5. I am so hungry, I could eat a horse.
a. Hyperbole
b. Metaphor
c. Synecdoche
Identify the figures of speech used in each of the following sentences.
1. I will move heaven and earth just to have him back.
2. The owl cries in the middle of the night.
3. She suddenly find herself like a fish out of water.
4. The dining room was jungle of wailing utensils.
5. Everyone recognizes the power of the ballot.