Extra Credit Assignment 2

Due Wednesday. Correct these sentences. There may be more than one thing wrong in each sentence.

Grammatically wrong
1. Defeated in the house, the Senate now gets to debate the bill.

Stylistically wrong
2. The 19-year-old boy got a ticket for jay-walking at 9 p.m. last night.

See if you can catch what's wrong.
3. Meredith ran away from home, she was so angry that night.


These should be easy:

4. Yes Brittney I can figure this one out.

5. Holding there flags high the veterans marched through town.

6. The students said they would "skip class" if Britney made them do more exercises that had to do with grammar punctuation spelling or style.

7. I think most students in this class are apart of the class of 09.

8. "I wonder if this is how you punctuate this quote?" Brittney said.

OK, now that's enough torture. Answer this question for a bonus point:
9. Why is it important for journalists to get these things right?