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II. Put the irregular verbs to the past and past participle form
Begin, come, drink, find, have, make, run, send, take, win
30p.
III. Translate the words and then make sentences with them
To pollute, coal, disaster, milk, bread, butter, fish, headache, earache, the flu
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30p.
II. Put the irregular verbs to the past and past participle form
Begin, come, drink, find, have, make, run, send, take, win
30p.
III. Translate the words and then make sentences with them
To pollute, coal, disaster, milk, bread, butter, fish, headache, earache, the flu
30p.
30p.
30p.
1. ITS OR THEIR?
Mistake: The practice of this management company is to have each corporate tenant sign their
lease on the third day of the month.
Correction: The practice of this management company is to have each corporate tenant sign its
lease on the third day of the month.
Alternative Correction: The practice of this management company is to have all corporate
tenants sign their leases on the third day of the month.
Why: Be careful not to switch from singular to plural mid-sentence, or vice versa. "Tenant" is
singular and calls for the singular "its." "Tenants" corresponds with the plural "their." Words like
"its" and "their" need to agree with the words such as "tenant" and "tenants" to which they refer.
2. IT'S OR ITS?
Mistake: Energy Electronics is introducing it's brand new line of heating units at the convention.
Correction: Energy Electronics is introducing its brand new line of heating units at the
convention.
Why: Use an apostrophe in "it's" only when you mean "it is." "Its" without an apostrophe
describes ownership, such as "its bond offering".
3. WHO OR WHOM?
Mistake: We will award free parking to the employee who the personnel director selects.
Correction: We will award free parking to the employee whom the personnel director selects.
Alternative Correction: We will award free parking to the employee who is selected by the
personnel director.
Why: One trick to help you decide which word to use is to substitute "he" for "who" and "him"
for "whom." Just rearrange the part of the sentence in question all the words following
"employee" and say it aloud with "he" or "him" to figure out whether to use "who" or
"whom."
4. IS BECAUSE?
Mistake: The reason that our stock price fell is because third quarter earnings were low.
Correction: The reason that our stock price fell is that third quarter earnings were low.
Alternative Correction: Our stock price fell because third quarter earnings were low.
Why: Avoid "is because."
5. GOOD OR WELL?
Mistake: We are pleased to report that the mutual funds performed good this fiscal year.
Correction: We are pleased to report that the mutual funds performed well this fiscal year.
Why: "Good" is an adjective, and "well" in this context is an adverb that explains how the funds
performed. Although the funds themselves may be called "good," the point here is to describe
how they performed, and the word is "well."
Why: Imagining the unwritten words that complete the sentence makes it easy to choose between
"her" and "she." Here, the implied sentence ending is "she is familiar."
8. COMMON OWNERSHIP?
Mistake: The third driveway on the right is Kane's and Abel's office.
Correction: The third driveway on the right is Kane and Abel's office.
Why: Only if Kane and Abel have two separate offices are they entitled to two separate
possessive endings. The context of the sentence tells you that Kane and Abel share one office,
and thus the sign of possession, the apostrophe with an s, follows the second name only.
9. WORD PLACEMENT?
Mistake: Deciding to purchase a piece of real estate, an agreement was negotiated by the buyer
and seller.
Correction: Deciding to purchase a piece of real estate, the buyer negotiated an agreement with
the seller.
Why: Here, the agreement did not decide to purchase a piece of real estate; the buyer did. It thus
makes sense to place the word "buyer" nearer that opening phrase. Placing the words in a logical
order generally leads to a proper grammatical result.