Daily Edits for the Week of 05/06/08

Directions:  Write each of the sentences below just as you see them. Then, using another colored pen or pencil, go through and make the corrections to the sentences.  You may check your corrections when you return from being absent.

05/06/08

Comma (to separate phrases and clauses), Nonstandard Language, Subject-Verb Agreement

If you had read the assignment you would of discovered that skin are the largest organ of the human body.

05/07/08

Using the Right Word, Parallelism

You’re sense of smell is the first sense to go to sleep at night and the last one that wakes up in the morning.

05/08/08

Adjective (Comparative/Superlative), Comma (Appositives)

The most hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone or mandible.

 05/09/08

Comma Splice, Comma (To separate phrases and clauses), Adjective (comparative/superlative)

Because it is the most fast plant in our solar system Mercury has the shortest year, it’s only 88 days long.

Capitalization, Comma (Appositives and to Separate Adjectives)

Albert einstein a brilliant german-born physicist discovered that the force of Gravity can bend light.