M01 laws tm4 5700. indd

 2. The teacher will be very pleased if everyone gets a good score on the exam. 
 3. Looking out the window, I saw Mayumi. Walking by herself.
 4.  The analysts worked many hours on the computer program, but they couldn’t find 
the cause of the problem, so they finally gave up, and they went home. 
 5. I answered the phone there was no one on the line. 
 6.  Many students attend classes in the morning. They work in the afternoon. They 
study at night. They are exhausted by the weekend. 
B. 
Find the errors in parallelism. Make corrections. 
 1. 
I have met both his father and I have met his mother.
 2. 
I don’t know whether I will get the job or I will like it if I get it. 
 3. 
Feeling sick but he didn’t want anyone to know, Fred kept quiet. 
 4. 
The young married couple have neither a dishwasher and they don’t have a washing machine.
 5. 
The floor scratches easily, it is hard to clean, and ugly. 
 6. 
It was frustrating to spend so much time on the project and accomplishing so little. 
C. 
Find the errors in fragments, run-on sentences, and comma splices. Make 
corrections. There is more than one way to correct each sentence. (Hint: One 
sentence has no errors.)
 1. 
More and more young people who are waiting until the age of 30 to marry. 
 2. 
An encyclopedia editor doesn’t write articles, he collects articles written by experts. 
 3. 
They finally decided to put their house on the market. Because they could no longer 
afford the monthly payments. 
 4. 
Sabine is a well-known cartoonist her husband is a lecturer at the university. 
 5. 
Gluten which is difficult or impossible for many people to digest. 
 6. 
Women are better drivers than men, their insurance rates are 20% lower than for men.