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FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING
PART 1 Editing Advice
1. Use the correct question formation. does Chimene go did her family come Where Chimene goes to school? When her family came to the United States? Barrington Where was born Barrington?^ 2. Don’t use be with a simple present or past verb.
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Sixty kids were built an airplane. 3. Use the base form after do, does, and did. speak She didn’t spoke English when she arrived in the United States. go
Where does she goes to school?
4. For the simple present, use the -s form when the subject is he, she, it, family, or a singular noun. s
Lena love Washington, DC.^ 5. Use the correct past form for irregular verbs. left
Salopek leaved Ethiopia in 2013.
6. Use the base form after to. study He wants to studies human migration.
7. Use the base form after a modal. study Lena should studies hard.
She must to wear professional clothes to work. 8. Use an infinitive after some verbs (but not after a modal), adjectives, and certain expressions with it.
to to
She needs choose a major. She’s not ready make a decision. ^ ^ to
It’s important inspire kids.^ 9. Don’t use the present continuous with nonaction verbs. wants
Irving is wanting to inspire kids now. 10. Don’t forget to include a form of be in a present continuous sentence. are
We learning about people on the move.^ 11. Don’t use the future in a time clause or an if clause. Use the simple present. s
When she will graduate from college, she’ll go to law school.^
PART 2 Editing Practice
Some of the shaded words and phrases have mistakes. Find the mistakes and correct them. If the shaded words are correct, write C.
C live
A: Does your family lives in the United States?
B: Yes, but I doesn’t live with them.
A: Why you don’t live with them?
B: They live in Miami. I finded a job here, so I was moved.
A: When you moved here?
B: Three years ago. I don’t like to be this far from my parents, but I have no choice. I didn’t realized how
much I would miss them. I lonely at times, but my mom call me almost every day, so that helps.
A: I’m know how you feel. When I left home, it was very hard for me be away from my family.
B: Where your family lives?
A: They live in Vietnam. They want visit me very much. When I will save enough money, I’m going to send
them plane tickets. I’m having two jobs now, so soon I’ll be have enough money for their trip.
B: How long they’ll stay here?
A: My mom will to stay for six months. But my dad can stay for only two weeks.
B: How often do you talk to your parents?
A: It’s expensive talk by phone, so we usually send email. Sometimes I use a phone card.
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WRITING TIP
After you finish a piece of writing, it’s a good idea to have a classmate or friend read it for mistakes. This is called peer editing. Someone else will often notice grammar, punctuation, spelling, and content errors in your writing that you don’t because you’re too close to it.
PART 3 Write
Read the prompts. Choose one and write one paragraph about it.
1. Write about a time you or someone you know moved. How was your life before the move? How was your life after? 2. Write about an unusual person you know or read about. Tell what that person did or is doing.
PART 4 Edit
Reread the Summary of Unit 12 and the editing advice. Edit your writing from Part 3.