Thursday, October 25, 2018

Numbers and Numerals: Cardinal, Ordinal, and Roman

Directions: there are ten (10) missing commas in the two sentences below, in red. Also, there is a missing period separating the two sentences: make the appropriate corrections.

A Cardinal Number is a number that says how many of something there are such as one two three four five An Ordinal Number is a number that tells the position of something in a list, such as 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th  etc.
Video image: Roman Numerals 
Suggested answer: 
A Cardinal Number is a number that says how many of something there are, such as one, two, three, four, five. An Ordinal Number is a number that tells the position of something in a list, such as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th,  etc.

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Founding Fathers at War

Directions: grammatically correct the following sentences below, in red. There is a missing semicolon and two missing commas along with five proper nouns that need to be capitalized in line 1 and four words in the last line that need to be capitalized.


during the american revolution many of the founding fathers served in the army for example, Alexander Hamilton served at the battle of trenton and the battle of yorktown.  



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Suggested Correction: 

During the American Revolution, many of the Founding Fathers served in the army; for example, Alexander Hamilton served at the Battle of Trenton and the Battle of Yorktown. 

Sunday, October 14, 2018

Ancient Rome: The Seven Hills

Directions: 
Grammatically correct the sentence(s) below, in red.  There are many missing commas and a needed use of the colon ( : ). 

Ancient Rome was fortunate to have agreeable geographical protections from potential enemies the Alps protected Rome from northern invaders and there were seven hills around Rome Aventine Caelian Capitoline Esquiline Palatine Quirinal Viminal. 







Great Five Minute Video introduction to Rome.

Suggested Answer:
Ancient Rome was fortunate to have agreeable geographical protections from potential enemies. The Alps protected Rome from northern invaders, and there were seven hills around Rome: Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Palatine, Quirinal, Viminal.