Set 3 Quiz Corrections:

John Henry

An American Legend

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

Some stories about John Henry are very questionible but these facts could be true. John Henry was born in Tennessee or mississippi, and he helped build the Big Bend Tunnel. Probably weighed about 220 pounds. He must have been the stronger man in the entire world.

SPELLING: questionable
CAPITALIZATION Proper nouns (people and animals) Proper nouns (places)
PUNCTUATION commas (with coordinating conjunctions)
GRAMMAR & USAGE Sentences fragments, Comparison (superlative degree)

Some stories about John Henry are very questionable, but these facts could be true. John Henry was born in Tennessee or Mississippi, and he helped build the Big Bend Tunnel. He probably weighed about 220 pounds. He must have been the strongest man in the entire world.

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Revised: July 31, 1999