Chapter 11 Improve Your Grammar, Mechanics, and Usage
(To complete the exercises in Chapter 11, copy the text below and paste it into your word processor.)
Level 1: Self-Assessment—Quotation Marks, Parentheses, Ellipses, Underscores, and Italics
Review Sections 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, and 3.2 in the Handbook of Grammar, Mechanics, and Usage and then complete the following 15 items.
In items 1–15, insert quotations marks, parentheses, and ellipses as needed, and add italics wherever necessary.
1. Be sure to read How to Sell by Listening in this month’s issue of Fortune.
2. Her response see the attached memo is disturbing.
3. Contact is an overused word.
4. We will operate with a skeleton staff during the holiday break December 21 through January 2.
5. The SBP’s next conference, the bulletin noted, will be held in Minneapolis.
6. Sara O’Rourke a reporter from The Wall Street Journal will be here on Thursday.
7. I don’t care why you didn’t fill my order; I want to know when you’ll fill it.
8. The term up in the air means undecided.
9. Her assistant the one who just had the baby won’t be back for four weeks.
10. Ask not what your country can do for you is the beginning of a famous quotation from John F. Kennedy.
11. Whom do you think Time magazine will select as its Person of the Year?
12. Do you remember who said And away we go?
13. Refinements in robotics may prove profitable. More detail about this technology appears in Appendix A.
14. The resignation letter begins Since I’ll never regain your respect and goes on to explain why that’s true.
15. You must help her distinguish between i.e. which means that is and e.g. which means for example.
Level 2: Workplace Applications
The following items may contain errors in grammar, capitalization, punctuation, abbreviation, number style, word division, and vocabulary. Rewrite each sentence, correcting all errors. If a sentence has no errors, write “Correct” for that number.
1. For the lst time, thank’s to largely deals with the big chains like Stop & Shop, Sheila’s Snak Treetz are showing a profit.
2. The premise for broadband, sometimes called simply ‘high speed Internet’, is that consumers need a more fast pipeline for getting digital information in our homes.
3. After moving into they’re own factory, the Anderson’s found theirselves in the market for an oven with airflow controls.
4. Cash-strapped entrepreneurs have learned penny-pinching, cost-cutting, credit-stretching techniques.
5. Designs in the Rough send out some 7 million catalogs a year yet until recently the company did’nt need a warehouse and they hadn’t hardly any carrying costs.
6. Blockbuster estimates that 70 percent of the US population live within a 10 minute drive of a Blockbuster store.
7. Nestle Waters North America are the exclusive importer of globally-recognized brands such as: Perrier and Vittel from France and, S. Pelligrino from Italy,
8. TheU.S. hispanic community; the largest Minority Group in the country; commands a impressive total purchasing power estimated at more than $500 billion dollars.
9. We conducted a six-month pilot in Chicago, to insure the affectiveness of the program.
10. A series of 7-Eleven television spots help make the term brain freeze part of every day American language.
11. The ad agencies accounts include the following consumer-brands; Walmart, Southwest airlines, FedEx, Land Rover, and Krispy Kreme.
12. PETsMART allows pets and their humans to together stroll the aisles of its stores; the number one Specialty Retailer of pet supplies.
13. Signature Fruit Co. has confirmed its closing it’s Gridley, CA peach plant this Fall.
14. To unite the company’s 91 franchisees around a common corporate identity WingsToGo have setup a corporate intranet.
15. It would be well for you to contract with an Internet service provider—a ISP – to both run and to maintain your website.
Level 3: Document Critique
The following document may contain errors in grammar, capitalization, punctuation, abbreviation, number style, word division, and vocabulary. As your instructor indicates, photocopy this page and correct all errors using standard proofreading marks (see Appendix C) or download the document and make the corrections in your word processing software.
Memco Construction
187 W. Euclid Avenue,
Glenview,
ILL 60025
www.memco.com
April 19, 2011
PROJECT: IDOT Letting Item #83 Contract No. 79371 DuPage County
Dear Mr. Estes—
Memco Construction is pleased to submit a road construction proposal for the above project. Our company has been providing quality materials and subcontracting services for highway reconstruction projects for over twenty-three years. Our most recent jobs in Illinois have included Illinois State Route 60 resurfacing, and reconstructing Illinois tollway 294.
Should you have any questions about this proposal please contact me at the company 847-672-0344, extension #30) or by e-mail at .
Based on the scope of the work outlined: the total cost of this job is projected by us to run ninety-nine thousand, two hundred eighty-three dollars. Because material quantities can vary once a project gets underway a separate page will be attached by us to this letter detailing our per-unit fees. Final charges will be based on the exact quantity of materials used for the job, and anything that accedes this estimate will be added of course.
Our proposal assumes that the following items will be furnished by other contractors (at no cost to Memco). All forms, earthwork and clearing; All prep work; Water at project site; Traffic control setup, devices, and maintenance—Location for staging, stockpiling, and storing material and equipment at job sight.
If we win this bid, we are already to begin when the apropriate contracts have been signed by us and by you. If you’ve have any questions, contact me at the phone number listed below.
Sincerely,
Kris Beiersdorf
Memco Construction
Office: (847) 352-9742, ext. 30
Fax: (847) 352-6595
E-mail:
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