Sentence Structure: End of Chapter Editing Exercises

The exercises below are based on earlier units in our "Sentence Structure" chapter.

Today's Grammar HELP! Handbook lesson provides you with exercises to test your understanding of our chapter, "Sentence Structure" and to challenge you to apply what you've learned.  It is primarily for beginners and lower-intermediate learners of English. This is not an audio lesson.

Before you begin the activities BELOW, you may want to study the podcast and initial grammar lesson, He's Always Talking about Grammar , also in our Library.


Editing Exercise 1


The sentences below are from students' writing and contain errors with sentence structure.  Locate the errors and rewrite each sentence correctly.  If the time reference is unclear, use what seems most appropriate from the context. Use appropriate punctuation.  The hyperlink should bring you to the grammar lesson for that particular error and provide you with grammar assistance.


1.  Is not very easy to change occupations.

2.  In Honduras, my country, is very common for families to have many children.

3.  The most important day in my life it was December 29, 1992.

3.  Salaries they're lower there than here.

5.  She afraid.

6.  Women very different from men.

7.  I remember when they was a war between the United States and Somalia.

8.  The fishermen didn't have food and fresh water for several days.

9.  When I lived there, people didn't have to pay for their education, for health
     care.

The Answer Key

Check your answers by clicking on this Answer Key link.

In our next lesson, we will present Sentence Structure Editing Practice #2.

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