Set 11: Focus on Verb Problems
Mug 1 Jan. 26, 2009
Verb (Tense), Comma (Appositive), Capitalization
+4
Tattooing the art of making designs on the face and body by inserting dye under the skin is practiced in Egypt before 1300 b.c.e.
Mug 2 Jan. 28, 2009
Verb (Tense), Run-On Sentence, Comma (Appositive), Numbers, Punctuation (Title)
+5
Gone with the Wind the only book ever written by Margaret Mitchell was published in 1937 and sells 1,500,000 copies in its first year it weighed three pounds, ran 1, 037 pages, and sells for three dollars.
Mug 3 Jan. 30, 2009
Verb (Tense), Comma (Other), Abbreviation, Comma Splice
+5
Basketball All-Star Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 pts. in one game on March 2 1962, in the same year he scores 4029 points, a record far from being matched.
Mug 4 Feb. 2. 2009
Verb (Tense), Quotation Marks, Capitalization, Comma (Other), End Punctuation
+6
Cars my Mother exclaimed when our car dies its third death in a month. “You can’t live with them and you can’t live without them”.
Mug 5 Feb. 4, 2009
Subject-Verb Agreement, Capitalization, Quotation Marks
+7
The hawaiian word Aloha and the hebrew word Shalom means both hello and good-bye.