FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING PART 1 Editing Advice 1. Never use do, does, or did to form the passive voice.
wasn’t found
The criminal didn’t find.
were
Where did the jurors taken? 2. Don’t use the passive voice with happen, die, become, sleep, work, live, fall, seem, or other intransitive verbs. The accident was happened three weeks ago. 3. Don’t confuse the -ing form with the past participle.
taken
The criminal was taking to jail. 4. Don’t forget the -ed ending for a regular past participle.
ed
My cousin was select to be on a jury. ^ 5. Don’t forget to use be with a passive sentence.
was
The evidence presented in court. ^ 6. Use the correct word order with adverbs.
never selected
I was selected never to be on a jury.
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.
didn’t
C
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I wasn’t come to class last week. My classmates wanted to know if I was sick. I explained that I had 3.
jury duty. Only citizens of the United States can serve on a jury, so my friends were surprised. But I 4.
was become a citizen six months ago. Last month, I was received a letter in the mail telling me I had to 5.
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report for duty. I’m still an ESL student, and my English is far from perfect, but I was selected. I was ask 7.
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a lot of questions, and I answered them without a problem. Many people were rejected, and I don’t know 9.
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why, but I chosen. 11.
The case was about a traffic accident. Here’s what was happened: A man hit a woman’s car and 12.
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was left the scene of the accident. Her car was badly damage. Luckily, the woman didn’t injured. The 14.
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woman saw the driver’s license plate and wrote down the number. She also was taken a picture of the car 17.
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with her cell phone as the driver was leaving. She called the police. The police caught him. He was driven 20.
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without a license. They also determined that the man was texting while driving. My friends asked me, 22.
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