FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING PART 1 Editing Advice 1. Use was/were with born.
was
Dawson born in the South. ^ 2. Don’t use was or were with die. He was died in 2001. 3. Don’t use a past form after to.
swim
Nyad decided to swam from Cuba to Florida. 4. Don’t use was or were to form the simple past.
accomplished
She was accomplish her goal. 5. Use a form of be before an adjective. Remember, some –ed words are adjectives.
was
Dawson excited about going to school. ^ 6. Don’t use did with an adjective. Use was or were.
weren't
Andrée and his men didn’t successful. 7. Form the past question correctly.
didn't you
Why you didn’t read the article?
did
write
Why Dawson wrote a book? ^ 8. Use the base form after didn’t. He didn’t learned to read when he was a child. 9. Don’t forget the d in used to in affirmative statements.
d
He use to live in the South. ^ 10. Don’t add the verb be before used to for habitual past. Nyad is used to be a sportscaster. 11. Use the correct past form.
swam
Nyad swimmed from Cuba to Florida.
PART 2 Editing Practice Some of the shaded words and phrases have mistakes. Find the mistakes and correct them. If the shaded words are correct, write C.
C
was
1.
2.
I recently read an article about Jackie Robinson. He were the first African American to play on a major league baseball team, the Brooklyn Dodgers. Major league baseball teams use to have only 3.
white players. Blacks were used to have their own teams. 4.
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