Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar - Muschla Gary Robert 2010

One of Science’s Greats
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This Englishman was one of the world’s greatest scientists. He lived about 350 years ago. Who was he?

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.

1. Michael’s report was about a famous scientist.

2. Many great discoveries were made in the past.

3. “Who is your report about,” Brittany asked.

4. Michael told her, and she smiled

5. “Thats the man I’m writing about, too,” she said.

6. “He was one of the greatest scientists of all time, Michael said.”

7. “Yes,” said Brittany. “He was born in england in 1643.”

8. He dies in 1727.

9. One of his most important discoveries were about gravity.

Answers

W. Capitalization

S. Period

E. Question Mark

N. Verb Tense

T. Apostrophe

A. Quotation Marks

O. Italics

C. Correct

I. Subject-Verb Agreement