Grammar/Sentence Review #4

Directions: Each sentence below includes at least one error in grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, usage, style, or tone of the types discussed in Chapter 11 and Appendix B of your textbook. Rewrite each sentence, correcting any errors without altering the essential meaning the writer appears to be trying to convey. Submit your list of corrected sentences through the Grammar Review #4 assignment link before the closing date of this module. This assignment is worth up to twenty points toward your final grade in the course.

) Over the last 14 years, since purchasing our first intraoral cameras.

2) During Christmas, there was a toy drive for less fortunate families and for Valentine’s Day, there was an event for students to make Build-A-Bears for themselves and others.

3) This is because these devices are portable and this allows them to continue learning wherever they are.

4) What I propose is switching programs that better helps students with their math courses.

5) This means someone who already works in the kitchen and knows our serving standards would be ideal, instead of hiring a new employee and training them.

6) In discussions with managers at competing companies, they said that benefits of telework include better work-life integration, improved employee morale, and reduced stress.

7) When workforces provide daycare onsite, employees work hard, stay at their jobs longer, moral is up, and they miss fewer hours/days at work.

8) While we realized the company pays for all of this and that it should be seen as a luxury, most feel it is an inconvenience.

9)This pay raise is significant, and the first one that I have received since the beginning of my employment with the company more than a year ago.

10) After the 12 week course was finished and all of my certifications were approved, I was approached by the head of the Malaysian team at Zenetex, and offered a full time position as Junior Security Analyst.

11) As I discussed in the last monthly meeting, at 12 miles, the delivery zone has become larger than we can handle.

12) If you were to take that into account having a more professionally dressed company shows that we are setting the bar a little higher.

13) While this may seem insignificant, because of transportation abilities, some students may not have available transportation or time to travel a far distance when there is a way to take their class at a closer facility.

14) In the state of Maryland, the higher education centers, such as the College of Southern Maryland, are using tax payer’s dollars to help pay for supplies, building and ground maintenance, the salaries of professors, and to help pay the tuition of those students who can not it on their own.

15) Lastly, marketing has requested that when we open new accounts, we ask the customer to spare a few moments of their time to take a quick survey on how their account opening process works.

16) The content of my emails sometimes suffer from time and workload restraints.

17) I am aware that inventory count is one thing we do not look forward to doing considering other end of the year duties.

18) After working this week, it has come to my attention that there are a few changes that can be implemented in order to assist in the betterment of Apple Spice Junction.

19) Most students have a quiet place besides a library to study in – however some don’t.

20) This is an issue, but I am reaching out to you because I believe we can do something about it.