Monday, November 30, 2009

Correct the following sentences.

1. Even though the Seattle Sounders FC's inaugural season ended Sunday with a 1-0 loss to the Houston Dynamo, the Sounders still have a lot to be proud of. (opinion according to who?)

2. Tommy Sullivan was one of the many fans who were able to attend a game this year.

3. With the work of improvement in mind, Pullman residents continue to feel the comfort of a clean, high-quality, and diversified neighborhood.

4. “People will come in and buy them by the case,” Ryan Jones said, a senior management operations major and employee of Bob's Corner Market for three years. “It’s not uncommon for them to run out at the warehouse. Sometimes I think they just can’t keep up.”

5. Yagiz started school as an undecided major but after taking geology her Sophomore year, she had found what she wanted to study.

6. If enacted, the plan will positively affect the neighborhood of College Hill and the collegiate experience of WSU students, he said.

7. More than 60 percent of off-premise establishments provided at least one type of beer promotion.

8. A fleet of camouflaged army cargo trucks sit in a parking lot, while men from the National Guard use forklifts to load supplies into the truck beds.

9. Potential employers are increasingly likely to view social-networking sites such as Facebook and Myspace when screening applicants for a position.(attribution?)

10. Stefany Unda, career development program coordinator for CACD(??), said the biggest misconception out there is that, setting your Facebook to private will protect someones from allowing people to view your profile.

11. He said he expects to see a number of transit systems turn to voters to try to get more revenue.(personification)

12. With more traffic on the Web site than in the department, digital technology has to be very organized. But it has allowed the public better access to the archives to out into the public sphere more.

13. “We just buy and sell real estate. It is what we do, but the market doesn’t dictate the price,” she said. “The price is the price and I haven’t seen a noticeable change.”

14. These bales are then sold to a processing center in Tacoma, Wash., for $24.

15. “In five or ten years something else will be cool and texting while driving while be a primary offense but it’s going to take a little time,” said Tennant



Underline the subject and verb of the following sentences:

*Another impact that increases the purchasing of alcohol is* the premises that sell alcohol on and off the WSU campus.

The best advice* the CACD can give is*, do not post things that you would not want people to see.


Comma splice? Yes or no.

“We just buy and sell real estate. It is what we do but the market doesn’t dictate the price,” she said.

In 2007, while the average income in Washington was $55,628, the average income for Whitman County was $36,438.

Going green took on new meaning this year when WSU Waste Management announced dramatic changes to the recycling program in an effort to save money across the university. The city plans to follow suit.

just take some out “Take a little out of athletics. Take a percentage out of athletics so a whole department doesn't have to be terminated,” Converse said.




The world of Library archives at WSU is an expanding wealth of knowledge and history.

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