Directions: students should grammatically correct the sentece below, in red. Look for five missing commas and several misused words.
Horatio Alger, Jr. was a gilded age american author best known for his many juvenile novels about impoverished boy's and they're rise from humble backgrounds too lives of security and comfort thru hard work determination courage and honesty.
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Horatio Alger, Jr. was a Gilded Age American author, best known for his many juvenile novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty.
Directions: students should correct the error filled sentences below, in red. There are three missing commas and a punctuation error.
The Triangle Factory fire which happened on March 25 1911 was one of the deadliest industrial disaster's in the history of new york city.
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The Triangle Factory fire, which happened on March 25, 1911, was one of the deadliest industrial disasters in the history of New York City.
Directions: correct the following sentences. .
while intended to assimilate Indians into white culture the Dawes Act of 1887 was the culmination of American attempt's two open Indian lands two settlement by non-Indians and two development by railroads.
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Suggested Answer:
While intended to assimilate Indians into white culture, the Dawes Act of 1887 was the culmination of American attempts to open Indian lands to settlement by non-Indians and to development by railroads.
Directions: students should grammatically correct the following sentence(s), in red. There are two missing commas, a missing apostrophe and several capitalization errors.
The holocaust which occurred between 1941 and 1945 was the nazi germanys genocide of over six million european jews.
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The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
Directions: grammatically correct the following sentence,in red. There are three missing commas and several capitalization errors.
harriet beecher stowe's best known novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) changed forever how Americans viewed slavery the system that treated people as property.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's best known novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), changed forever how Americans viewed slavery, the system that treated people as property.
