Grammar Assignment

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Grammar A-K

a) She felt bad about missing the school board meeting, but her editor fired her regardless of her excuse.

b) We will join in prayer for the students who died in the shooting and we will fly the flags at half-staff.

c) It is all right if you miss class for a job interview. You can make up the test tomorrow.

d) We will divide the workload among three students.

e) The St. Joseph Board of Commissioners plans to submit a proposal for a bond issue to pay for road improvements. It hopes that the election committee will reach a consensus to put issue on the ballot.

f) I know you are eager to get this job, but each of the applicants will have a chance to discuss their strengths and weaknesses with the personnel director.

g) Based on your writing skills, it looks like you could be a good journalist.

h) Each of the students will receive a plaque with his or her diploma at graduation.

i) She was embarrassed that she had fewer than five answers correct on the quiz.

j) After the boss read the report, he gave it to Jim and me to rewrite and said that it is due back by Monday.

Grammar L-Y

a) The people that attended the gay rights rally sponsored by the school said it was a unique event.

b) However, the participants in the rally said the media were annoying when they converged on the speakers with cameras and microphones.

c) Some of the speakers felt bad that the crowd became unruly and the organizer said he was embarrassed when some of the participants complained.

d) Next year the rally will be planned better.

e) None of the five students involved in the fracas is going to be published.

f) The first-place award, which was an engraved silver bowl, was received by the class valedictorian.

g) The three top restaurateurs in the city provided food for the banquet, but more than 200 people got sick after the event.

h) The City Board of Health, which investigates such cases, said the food smelled and tasted good, but they are withholding judgment on the cause of the illness until the food can be tested.

i) Regardless, a lot of people were lying in the ground, holding their stomachs in pain.

j) The city health inspector wanted to know whom he should blame, and he said he was moving toward a solution to the mystery of revealing who is responsible for the food poisoning outbreak.