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Exercise 4 - Editing for grammar errors in a response essay



Instructions: This passage contains three mistakes with Missing Subjects and four mistakes with Word Forms. Click on the mistakes and correct the word or phrase in the box. When finished, check your answers with WHAT WE WROTE.

  Passage 2 of 2

Find 3 mistakes with Missing Subjects.
                                                                                    Find 4 mistakes with Word Forms.

Adapted from: Amy Tan, "Mother Tongue," http://people.virginia.edu/~pmc4b/spring98/readings/Mother.html.
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