Set 3: Sentences Corrections 7 & 8

John Henry

An American Legend

Spelling focus: Adding the suffix [able] to complete words

(7.) The steam drill made a admirible hole nine foots deep.

SPELLING: admirable
CAPITALIZATION ok
PUNCTUATION ok
GRAMMAR & USAGE Plurals (irregular plurals), Articles (a vs. an)

The steam drill made a admirable hole nine feet deep.

(8.) Henry's hole were fourteen feet deep him had beaten the steam drill!

SPELLING: ok
CAPITALIZATION ok
PUNCTUATION First word (in sentence)
GRAMMAR & USAGE Pronoun case (of subject), Run-on sentence
Agreement (of subjects and verbs)

* Henry's hole was fourteen feet deep. He had beaten the steam drill!

* An asterick [*] before a correct sentence means the student may correct an error in more than one way, as when fixing fragments, run-ons, and double negatives.

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