Choose the better tense of the verb in parentheses.

0. Henry (married, has married) in 1887 and later settled in a small house at 409 East Fifth Street in Austin.

Write the word before each missing comma, adding the comma. Write Correct if no commas are needed in a sentence.

Ferrington attended college but he did not receive a degree.

Write each verb or verb phrase and identify it as linking or action. Circle the auxiliary verbs.

Eight arms and two tentacles surround the squid's mouth.

Rewrite the following sentence to correct instances of indefinite, ambiguous, and general pronoun reference.

In the section on airships, it says, "This record breaking machine developed a speed of over 250 miles per hour," under a picture of a navy racing plane.

For given sentence, write the words that should be capitalized.

so who's to judge what is good or bad?

Write the conjunctions and conjunctive adverbs in the following sentence.

Penguins are fish eaters and spend much of their lives in the water, although they lay their eggs on land.

Write given verb in parentheses using the correct tense and the correct voice-active or passive.

His captors (assign) him to a work group in Dresden, Germany.

Write the word before each missing comma, adding the comma. Write Correct if no commas are needed in a sentence.

Professor Aronnax a naturalist from the Paris Museum of Natural History takes a wild ride in Nemo's submarine the Nautilus.

Write the simple subjects and simple predicates in the sentence. Be sure to include all parts of verb phrases.

Would he organize and coach a football team for the A. E. Staley Manufacturing Company?

Choose the correct form of comparison for given sentence.

The (better, best) historical records, however, fail to support the claim that Oak Island is the site of buried treasure.

For given sentence, write the correct form of the verb in parentheses.

Perhaps a character (plans, plan) to jump from a helicopter.

Write and underline the words that should be italicized in these sentences. If a sentence needs no italics, write Correct.

On summer evenings, you can find him looking up sports statistics in his Complete Baseball Record Book. 6. Come September, he studies a book called Football Pro.

For given sentence, write the verb form that agrees with the subject.

A 70-pound "hump" and an eggshell pasted over an eye (was, were) used to create a realistic hunchback.

Write each adjective in these sentences, along with the word it modifies.

Long, thick guard hairs grow across the broad shoulders.