Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar - Muschla Gary Robert 2010

Meet the Flintstones
Proofreading for mistakes in grammar
Usage and proofreading

Just about everybody knows the Flintstones. Fred and Barney were members of the Loyal Order of the Water Buffaloes. What was the title of this group’s leader?

To answer the question, read each sentence below. Find the sentence’s grammatical mistake. There is no more than one mistake in each sentence. Choose your answers from the choices listed after the sentences. Write the letter of each answer in the space above its sentence number at the bottom of the page. If there are no mistakes, write the letter for correct. You will need to divide the letters into words.

1. Most americans have heard of the Flintstones.

2. The Flintstones are cartoon characters, and they live in the Stone Age.

3. Fred, Wilma, Barney, and Betty is cartoon stars.

4. They starred in a TV show called The Flintstones.

5. Fred, and Wilma had a daughter named Pebbles.

6. They also had a pet named “Dino.”

7. I wonder if they had any other pets?

8. The original TV series runs for six years.

9. The Flintstones are one of the worlds favorite cartoon families.

Answers

N. Capitalization

G. Verb Tense

D. Question Mark

A. Comma

O. Apostrophe

B. Subject-Verb Agreement

P. Italics

R. Correct

H. Quotation Marks