The exercises for the first grammar class. Tests correct construction of sentences with colon, semi-colon, quotation marks, passive sentence construction, and simple sentences.
9. Exercise: Write out the
sentence
• People that ate the cake
– Juan
– Mary
– Jonathan, who had just eaten another cake
10. Exercise: Write out the
sentence
• Things that happened
– I ate my lunch.
– She came to my house.
– We went for a walk.
11. Exercise: Fix the sentence
• I left my iPhone in the bathroom by
mistake. When I went back, it wasn’t there
anymore. Someone must have taken my it.
12. Exercise: Fix the sentence
• More and more teachers in the US are
teaching the Chinese language to students.
• People in France love their language.
• People in France had loved their language.
• People in Korea are incorporating more and
more foreign words into Korean.
• In Venezuela, people are reclaiming their
pride in the Spanish language.
13. Exercise: Fix the sentence
• We will not comment at this point who our
suspects are. At this moment, we will
merely disclose those facts which have
been confirmed. Someone robbed the
house at 1 AM in the morning.
14. Exercise: Fix the sentence
• The Vietnam War started in November
1, 1955 and ended in April 30, 1975. South
Vietnam and the fought on one side, and
on the other side fought North
Vietnam, China, and other communist
countries on the other side. On April
30, 1975, the North Vietnamese won and
the US retreated out of Vietnam.
15. Exercise
Eating at restaurants all the time confused by the news
The bride and groom were , he realized how much he missed his wife.
Tired of all the bad news , Janet suddenly turned off the news.
The people were after the long run.
After the long run happiest of all.
Eating alone at the restaurant costs a lot of money.
John fell asleep , Johnny fell asleep immediately.
Scared to hear the truth , Jackson turned off the television.
Tired after the long run , John fell asleep.
