Bad Beginning to a Sentence
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Bad Beginning to a Sentence
Fix the fifteen clumsy sentences by starting with a word later in the sentence. Starting in the right place will eliminate needless words and grammar mistakes.
The answers are below.
Example:
Wrong start: One thing that threatens to become a real problem is my addiction to video games.
Better Start: My addiction to video games threatens to become a problem.
- Jane Goodall is a person that I admire.
- Politeness is a needed quality that a successful waitress must have in order to do their job with a degree of success.
- As far as automobile insurance is concerned, there are some ways that the high cost of it can be minimized by owners.
- When it comes to exercise, that is something that my mother would never do.
- In this paper I am going to show that the experience of giving birth to a baby is very painful for the mother.
- Red meat is something that should be avoided if you want to stay healthy.
- One subject in school that I am very frustrated by is Algebra.
- His level of hyperactivity is at a point where it is a concern for Jack’s teachers at the school.
- The cost of my trip to Europe is a consideration that my parents are worried about.
- The reason why I worried was because the progression of my research project was going too slowly.
- A reduction in costs of shipping of all of its products was implemented by the management.
- My friendship with Jim is one relationship that I will never forget.
- Cheering for the school team is something that should be done by every student.
A better place to start is highlighted in blue.
- Jane Goodall is a person that I admire.
- Politeness is a needed quality that a successful waitress must have in order to do their job with a degree of success.
- As far as automobile insurance is concerned, there are some ways that the high cost of it can be minimized by owners.
- When it comes to exercise, that is something that my mother would never do.
- In this paper I am going to show that the experience of giving birth to a baby is very painful for the mother.
- Red meat is something that should be avoided if you want to stay healthy.
- One subject in school that I am very frustrated by is Algebra.
- His level of hyperactivity is at a point where it is a concern for Jack’s teachers at the school.
- The cost of my trip to Europe is a consideration that my parents are worried about.
- The reason why I worried was because the progression of my research project was going too slowly.
- A reduction in costs of shipping of all of its products was implemented by the management.
- My friendship with Jim is one relationship that I will never forget.
- Cheering for the school team is something that should be done by every student.
Answers are below
- I admire Jane Goodall. (Or, if you must): I greatly admire Jane Goodall.)
- A successful waitress must be polite.
- Owners can lower the high cost of car insurance in four ways.
- My mother would never exercise.
- Giving birth is very painful.
- To stay healthy, avoid red meat
- Algebra frustrates me.
- Jack’s teachers are concerned about his hyperactivity.
- My parents are worried about the cost of my trip to Europe.
- I worried because my research project was going too slowly.
- The management reduced shipping costs.
- I will never forget my friendship with Jim.
- Every student should cheer for the school team.
Last updated 9/18/06