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Answers to Communication Blooper
Activities
Unit 1 The Sentence
Rule A sentence must contain a subject and verb and
must express a complete thought. is exercise also gives
students practice identifying the parts of speech.
A
Answers will vary.
1. shot 4. chased
2. washed 5. hammered
3. sent
Total conjunctions, interjections, and
pronouns ⫻ 3 ⫹ 3 21
Unit 2 Nouns
“A Wise Old Owl”—author unknown
A wise (1) old (2) owl (4) sat (5) in (7) an (8) oak.
(10) e (11) more (13) he (14) saw, (16) the (19) less
Unit 3 Pronouns
Rule e antecedent to which a pronoun refers should be
clear.
I’m donating the food that I bought last week to
the animal shelter.
2. e Carters have a family of groundhogs, and they
live under the deck.
A family of groundhogs lives under the Carters’
deck.
3. e interns’ fi les were incomplete, so we sent
over the meadow.
e hawk, which was fl ying over the meadow,
looked at the rabbit.
6. Mr. Hines is sponsoring our team, who owns a
hardware store.
Mr. Hines, who owns a hardware store, is
sponsoring our team.
7. D’Andrea and Lee hate salads, which is fi ne with
Miyoko, because she hates them, too.
D’Andrea and Lee hate salads, which is fi ne with
9. Madeline told Lily that she had a phone call.
Madeline said, “Lily, you have a phone call.”
10. My mother must have thrown the box of old
baseball cards into the trash, which I had collected
as a child.
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Unit 4 Verbs
A
Corrections are in parentheses.
1. has (have) 4. have (has)
Unit 5 The Time of Verbs
A
turned
Cara woke early that morning. She turns off the alarm
made had drunk
clock and makes some coff ee. She has drank two cups
usual route. She be halfway across the bridge when the
came
fi rst shudder started. Traffi c comes to a halt, but
seemed
nobody panicked. Everybody seem to be waiting for the
swaying to stop. A longtime resident of the Bay Area,
started went
starts, the shaking stopped. Long moments go by. e
said seemed
radio announcer says that the quake seems to have
drove
1.
✓
2. ✓
3. e survey indicates several key trends. (Rewrites
may vary.)
Unit 6 Misused Verbs
1. C 7. C
Unit 7 Adjectives and
Adverbs
Corrections are in parentheses.
1. A ( e [or at])
2. more popular (most popular)
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Unit 8 Prepositions and
Conjunctions
Rule Prepositional phrases should be close to the words
they modify.
Rewrites may vary slightly.
1. e company sells exercise equipment for active
people with a lifetime guarantee.
e company sells exercise equipment with a
lifetime guarantee for active people.
condition from my grandmother.
5. Without a net, Sabrina anxiously watched the
trapeze artists perform.
Sabrina anxiously watched the trapeze artists
perform without a net.
6. Josephine ran into a friend who jogs with her at
the opera.
At the opera, Josephine ran into a friend who jogs
with her.
7. Colton pointed out the damaged shingles to his
Unit 9 Phrases and Clauses
Rule Phrases and clauses should be close to the words
they modify.
Rewrites may vary.
1. Coming over the rooftops, we saw a spectacular
sunrise.
We saw a spectacular sunrise coming over the
rooftops.
2. Chuck suddenly saw the billboard walking down
5. I gave the ham to the cat that we didn’t eat.
I gave the ham that we didn’t eat to the cat.
6. Stuff ed in the rafters, Marc found some old
newspapers.
Marc found some old newspapers stuff ed in the
rafters.
7. She tossed the book into the trash compactor,
which she had not read.
She tossed the book, which she had not read, into
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Unit 10 Punctuation
A
B
Cory’s Corner Market
Tomato’s $149 lb
Have you put in your order yet.
Unit 11 Number Expression
and Capitalization
2. more than 1,100 athletes from thirty-seven
countries participated. 2. 37
3. the united states did surprisingly well in ice hockey.
7. east germany (in 1980, germany was 2 countries,
not 1 as it is today) won more medals than any
other country. 7. two, one
8. skier hanni wenzel, from the european nation of
liechtenstein, earned gold and silver medals.
9. the mascot was a raccoon named roni.
Unit 12 Word Choice
Corrections are in parentheses.
1. have went, near to (have gone, near)
8. good, there (well, their)
9. kind of a, to (kind of, too)
10. Like, beside (As, besides)
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