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ERROR SENTENCE ANALYSIS (EXERCISE)


EXERCISE PBIBK 4

-      Alexander (10614783)

-      Asri Jul Megita (11614748)

-      Febriametra Olga Yolanda (14614110)

-      Talitha Rahma (1A614647)

4SA01



Choose the INCORRECT answer, then give the CORRECTION and EXPLANATION!

1.      Zoos in New Orleans, San Diego, Detroit, and the Bronx have become biological
                                                                                    A
parks where animals roams free and people watch from across a moat.

       B                         C                                D

Incorrect answer: C

Correction and explanation:

It should be roam because due to plural subject which is animals, then the verb must be without –s ending.



2.      George has not completed the assignment yet,  and Maria hasn’t neither

                     A                                 B          C                           D

Incorrect answer: D

Correction and explanation:

It should be hasn’t either because neither = not either, so both not (hasn’t) and neither can’t be used together. Besides, if we want to use neither there must be followed by nor.



3.      Hanny enjoyed to be able to meet several Congress members during her vacation.

                             A            B           C                                                    D

Incorrect answer: A

Correction and explanation:

It should be being because enjoyed must be followed by gerund, thus to be is change into being.



4.      No one would have attended the lecture if you told the truth about the guest speaker.

                                      A                                 B         C                     D

Incorrect answer: B

Correction and explanation:

The correct answer should be had told due to the form of “if” conditional type 3 (would have attended + if + had told) which tell a past unreal condition.



5.      Marie has registered for both the afternoon anthropology class as well as

                       A                                                                          B

the evening sociology lecture.

       C              D

Incorrect answer: B

Correction and explanation:

It should be and. Because both followed by and. Both and as well as are two separate usage items that should not be mixed together.


6.      Compact discs are affected neither by scratching and by dust.

                            A       B                 C                  D

Incorrect answer: D

Correction and explanation:

Because ‘neither...nor’ is correlative conjunction, thus the answer should be nor instead of and.  



7.      Plastics used to make textiles can be drawn into fine threads, then woven or knit

                                                          A                       B                C            D

      into fabrics.

Incorrect answer: D

Correction and explanation:

The correct answer must be knitted. Because it must be parallel with the verb before which is in past participle form.



8.      Henry David Thoreau stressed the importance in individuality and of living

                                                           A                                         B

in harmony with nature.

            C                     D

Incorrect answer: B

Correction and explanation:

It should be living. Because it must be parallel with the word before, which is the importance in individuality function as noun in the sentence should be followed by noun too (living in harmony).



9.      The coach was depending for his team to win the game so that they would have a

                                    A                          B                        C

chance to play in the Super Bowl.

            D

Incorrect answer: A

Correction and explanation:

The answer should be depending on. Because depend is a verb with specified preposition called phrasal verb.



10.  According to Freud, mental life is characterized by internal conflicts who are largely

            A                                                  B                                  C             D

unconscious.

Incorrect answer: C

Correction and explanation:

The word who must be which. Because the subject ‘internal conflict’ is non personal in adjective clause. Then it should be which because it refers to mental life.