Answers to Friday Grammar Quiz- June 28, 2024

[Gerry Steen]

Answers to Friday Grammar Quiz- June 28, 2024

A. “I want to improve like you have this month.” is incorrectly written. It should be written as follows; I want to improve as you have this month.

“Like” is a preposition. It cannot be used to join two independent clauses. The conjunction “as” should be used to join two independent clauses.

B. The unnecessary word is “of”. The sentence should be “The fence keeps the dog off the lawn.”

C. The suffix “-wise” should not be used to create new words when you mean “with regard to”. The sentence “Weather-wise, a tornado is predicted to pass through our region tomorrow.” should be “ With regard to the weather, a tornado is predicted to pass through our region tomorrow.”

Below is the grammar quiz for those answers.

Friday Grammar Quiz- June 28, 2024

A. One of the following sentences is incorrectly written. Which one is it? Why? How would you rewrite it?

1. Professor George is like my high school principal.

2. I want to improve like you have this month.


B. The following sentence makes the use of one unnecessary word. Which word is it? How would you rewrite it?

1. The fence keeps the dog off of the lawn.

C. The following sentence is incorrectly written. How should it be written?

Weather-wise, a tornado is predicted to pass through our region tomorrow.