English Skills with Readings 9th Edition by John Langan, Zoe Albright

Exercise 8

Cross out the two nonstandard verb forms in each sentence below. Then write the standard English verbs in the spaces provided.

EXAMPLE

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_______ 1. My mother work for the local newspaper; she take classified ads over the phone.

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_______ 2. Last week the city tow away my car; this morning I paid sixty dollars and pick it up from the towing company.

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_______ 3. When my wife be late for work, she rush around the house like a speeded-up cartoon character.

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_______ 4. Henry love to go camping until two thieves in the campground remove his cooler, stove, and sleeping bag from his tent.

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_______ 5. If the baby have a bad cold, I takes her into a steamy bathroom for a while to ease her breathing.

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_______ 6. Although my little girls knows they shouldn't tease the cat, they often dresses up the animal in doll clothes.

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_______ 7. Whenever my brothers watches Monday Night Football, they screams at the TV as if they are actually at the game.

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_______ 8. The hot, sweaty children jumps into the cool water of the pool and splashes around like a couple of happy seals.

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_______ 9. I show the receipt to the manager to prove that the clerk had accidentally overcharge me.

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_______ 10. As far as our son be concerned, oatmeal taste like soggy cardboard.

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