Practice 4: Correct, Incorrect, Explain - Directions: Read each statement and determine whether the bolded word is used correctly or incorrectly. If the bolded
write a "C" in the second column and move on to the next statement. If the bolded word is used incorrectly, write "l" in the
rewrite the sentence so it conveys the correct meaning of the word. You may need to change the word, or rewrite the whe
Cor!
If "incorrect," rewrite the senten
1. DeMar looked at his magnificent sculpture and declared
that it was his greatest achievement to date.
2. Private Jones was the newest member of the battalion and
had the lowest rank, so when he gave an order it was with
great authority.
3. To showcase her family's culture in her presentation,
Sabrina included information about the church she goes to,
the language her grandmother speaks, and her father's
favorite musicians.

buy a huge library full of all the books ever written

isn't this axel talking to his uncle?

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.