Quiz #2/Salinas

Part I (5 pts. each): Correct a total of four run-on (RO), fragment (FR) or conjunction (CONJ) errors in
your essay. (Correct more than one of the same error if necessary.) If you don’t have at total of four, create
new sentences with the errors, but don’t create more than one with the same kind of error.

1)Original:

New:

2)Original:

New:

3)Original:

New:

4)Original:

New:

Part II (5 pts. each): Correct two SV (subject-verb agreement), two V (verb form) and two VT (verb tense)
errors in your essay. If you don’t have enough of any error, create a sentence showing the error. Note that
for verb tense, you must explain why the tense is incorrect.

SV
1)Original:

New:

2)Original:

New:
V
3)Original:

New:

4)Original:

New:

VT
5)Original:

New:

Explanation:

6)Original

New:

Explanation:

Part III (10 pts. each): Write three new sentences four your essay that include irregular past tense verbs.
Underline each verb.
1)

2)

3)
Part IV (5 pts. each): Write a paragraph related to your essay or immigration issues we’ve been discussing
in which you use the present, past, past perfect and present perfect tenses correctly (for example, play,
played, have played, had played). As long as you use all four tenses, you can use different verbs. Make sure
you’re switching the tenses in a way that is logical. Underline each and verb label the tense.