Where Does The Comma Go?
Where Does The Semicolon Go?
Where Don't They Go?


Practice For The No Longer Perplexed

Correct the following sentences, identifying the type of errors .

  1. It is essential that work begin immediately, otherwise additional competition may begin to surface.
  2. This will indicate exactly how it is affecting our production rate, and its effect on the entire cycle.
  3. For a big eater the points meal plan is excellent, because there is no one fixed overhead rate.
  4. To avoid litigation it would be in the best interests of the client to have the devices left in their present locations, and install new ones, elsewhere.
  5. The system includes these and many other reports but it is not as time-efficient as the old system in my judgment.
  6. For every completed survey a coupon with a 10% discount should be given for the next purchase and the customer should be encouraged to visit again.
  7. During emergency procedures at sea it is likely that few if any, unclassified publications would actually be destroyed; before the ship is captured.
  8. If pages are missing, send a report to the local distributing authority explaining the circumstances surrounding the page loss, and conduct a thorough investigation.
  9. To be able to use a computer it is necessary to be able to type.
  10. This concern cannot be ignored making the problem urgent.
  11. Our proposal presents the options available for computer hardware and it also gives a layout of activities for the course, when it begins.
  12. The problem is universal and needs to be solved to show that the University is concerned about its students; as well as to maintain an optimum working environment.
  13. In order to finish the design work on the possible solutions more information is needed.
  14. There are a large number of customers in the first two hours creating a tremendous rush.
  15. A significant amount of the training money goes to the cost of moving employees to the training facility, and the wages of their replacements.


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