Name :
Ade Hilda.S
Class :
4KA07
NPM :
10116096
Avoiding shift in person
Exercise
1.12
Some of
the following sentences contain shifts in person. Identify each error by
drawing a line under the pronoun; then write the correct form above the word.
You may have to change the form of the verb.
1.I enjoy
eating out instead of cooking at home. Living in Seattle, you have a
choice of many different kinds of restaurants. My favorite restaurant is a
Japanese one near my home. It is small and very popular, so you usually have to
wait for a table.
2.If a
person wants to learn to play a musical instrument well, you will have to
develop self-discipline. The serious music student, for example, must be
willing to give up watching two or three hours of television a day, and,
instead, spend your time practicing.
3.During
the past year or two, the price of food has risen sharply. Every time I go to
the market, you can see increases in several items. Not so long ago, your
twenty dollars bought quite a few bags of groceries, but now I can carry twenty
dollars’ worth of food home in one bag.
4.I
received a camera for a graduation present last year. It worked fine at first,
but after a few months, you could tell that something was wrong with it. The
pictures were so blurry that you couldn’t recognize the people in them. The
repairperson at the camera shop wanted too much money to repair it, so I
stopped using it. You would be wasting your money to buy film for that lemon.
5. My
brother likes his job as a lifeguard at the beach. You don’t have to wear a
coat and tie to work, and you are out in the fresh air all day. A lifeguard has
an important job. You don’t just watch pretty girls; you are responsible for
the lives of all those people who come to enjoy the ocean.
Answere:
1. I enjoy
eating out instead of cooking at home. Living in Seattle, they have a choice of many different kinds of
restaurants. My favorite restaurant is a Japanese one near my home. It is small
and very popular, so they usually have to wait
for a table.
2.If a
person wants to learn to play a musical instrument well, you will have to
develop self-discipline. The serious music student, for example, must be
willing to give up watching two or three hours of television a day, and,
instead, spend his or her time practicing.
3.During
the past year or two, the price of food has risen sharply. Every time they go to the market, they
can see increases in several items. Not so long ago, their
twenty dollars bought quite a few bags of groceries, but now they can carry twenty dollars’ worth of food home in
one bag.
4. I
received a camera for a graduation present last year. It worked fine at first,
but after a few months, you could tell that something was wrong with it. The
pictures were so blurry that he or
she couldn’t recognize
the people in them. The repairperson at the camera shop wanted too much money
to repair it, so he or she stopped using it. You would be wasting your money to buy film for that lemon.
5. My
brother likes his job as a lifeguard at the beach. He
don’t have to wear a coat and tie to work, and he
are out in the fresh air all day. A lifeguard has an important job. He don’t just watch pretty girls; He are responsible for the lives of all those people
who come to enjoy the ocean.
Tense shift problems
Exercise
2.16
Some of
the following sentences contain shifts in tense. Identify each error by drawing
a line under the incorrect verb. Write the correct form above the word.
1.Last Tuesday night I went to the
library because I had a test in history on Wednesday morning. It is too noisy
at home to study. My brother is playing the stereo, my mother was vacuuming,
and my little sister and her friend are chasing each other around the house.
How am I supposed to concentrate with all that commotion?
2.My friend Greg loves peanut butter.
Every morning he spread peanut butter on his toast or waffles. He snacked on
peanut butter cups at school, and, of course, he ate peanut butter sandwiches
for lunch every day. Nowadays he bakes his own peanut butter cookies because
his mother had refused to make them anymore. Greg was a hopeless case; he even
covers a slice of chocolate cake with peanut butter.
3. My wife and I bought a golden
retriever puppy last year. We made the mistake on the first few nights of
allowing the puppy to sleep on a rug by our bed because he misses his brothers
and sisters. Later when we made a bed for him in the laundry room, he howls and
scratches on the door for several hours every night. After a while the
neighbors call on the telephone to complain about the noise. We thought that he
will never give up. The puppy finally learned to sleep by himself, and the
neighbors start speaking to us again.
Answere:
1.
Last
Tuesday night I went to the library because I had a test in history on
Wednesday morning. It is too noisy at home to study. My brother was playing the stereo, my mother was vacuuming, and
my little sister and her friend were chasing
each other around the house. How am I supposed to concentrate with all that
commotion?
2.
My
friend Greg loves peanut butter. Every morning he spread peanut butter on his
toast or waffles. He snack on peanut butter cups
at school, and, of course, he ate peanut butter sandwiches for lunch every day.
Nowadays he bakes his own peanut butter cookies because his mother had refuse to make them anymore. Greg was a hopeless
case; he even covers a slice of chocolate cake with peanut butter.
3.
My
wife and I bought a golden retriever puppy last year. We made the mistake on
the first few nights of allowing the puppy to sleep on a rug by our bed because
he missed his brothers and sisters. Later when
we made a bed for him in the laundry room, he howls and scratches on the door
for several hours every night. After a while the neighbors call on the
telephone to complain about the noise. We thought that he will never give up. The
puppy finally learned to sleept by himself, and
the neighbors start speak to us again.
