FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING PART 1 Editing Advice 1. Use the correct question formation.
is he
What he is saying?
did Washoe die
When Washoe died?
does “enduring” mean?
What means “enduring”?
2. Don’t use the present continuous with nonaction verbs.
know
Now you are knowing a lot about communication. 3. Don’t use the future after a time word or if. When I will go back to China, I’m going to be an English teacher. I’ll learn a lot of slang if I will have an English-speaking roommate next semester. 4. Don’t forget be when using going to.
are
We going to study American Sign Language. 5. Don’t forget a form of be with the present continuous.
are
We learning a lot about language. 6. Don’t forget was or were with born.
was
were
Washoe born in Africa. Where did her babies born? 7. Use the base form after do, does, or did.
like
At first, Washoe didn’t liked other chimps.
Does Timothy speaks French?
8. Use the –s form after he, she, it, or a singular subject in the simple present.
wants
She want to learn American Sign Language. 9. Use the base form after to.
study
The Gardners wanted to studied animal communication. 10. Pay special attention to irregular verbs in the past.
spent
The Gardners spended a lot of time with Washoe.
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
were born
My parents borned in Poland. Their native language was Yiddish. When they came to the 1.
2.
U.S., they didn’t spoke English at all. They spoke only Yiddish and Polish. I was born in the 3.
4.
5.
U.S. When I was a child, I heared mostly Yiddish at home. But when I went to school, I learned 6.
7.
8.
English and started to lost my language. Today, very few people speak Yiddish, and I’m thinking 9.
10.
the Yiddish language dying. I only know a few very old people who still speak the language. 11.
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