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Exercise 5 - Editing for grammar errors in a persuasive essay



Instructions: This passage contains four mistakes with Subject-Verb Agreement and four mistakes with Incomplete or Incorrect Verb Forms. Click on each mistake and type the correct word or words in the box. When finished, check your answers with WHAT WE WROTE.

  Passage 2 of 2

Find 4 mistakes with Subject-Verb Agreement.
Find 3 mistakes with Incomplete and 1 with Incorrect Verb Forms.
Adapted from: J. J. Macionis,  Sociology  (8th Ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, pp. 191, 194-195.
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