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ASSIGNMENT #3

Error Analysis: Rewrite the following sentences correctly.

  1. You can only working from your home if you are well organized and can planning your time well.
  2. Should you please open the window? I could be most grateful.
  3. Why must he has his own way all the time? Why can't we not do what I want sometimes?
  4. How is he supposing to know what to do if he wouldn't understand the instructions clearly?
  5. Would you mind to close the door after you? I had rather to keep the warm air inside the house.
  6. Would you mind if I leave without you? I'm already late and wouldn't rather miss the next bus.
  7. Do you have got to go right now? Yes, I do have.
  8. All students ought always remember the instructions for doing their homework. That way, they don't will have problems doing it correctly.
  9. Tom and Becky shouldn't have already been gone to the mall. They should have waited for us and then we couldn't have gone together.
  10. Greg always has a bottle of water with him. He might be thirsty all the time, but then he must also be ill.
  11. Bill might have been visiting his parents yesterday evening. I didn't been able to get through on the phone, and he told me might have been going there soon.
  12. Tom supposed to stop by on his way home today, and then we supposed to go shopping.
  13. Most boys would rather to play with toy guns than to play with dolls.
  14. May I please to borrow some money for my lunch today? I should have forgotten my wallet at home.
  15. "Can you pass me the water please?" "I'm sorry, I will like to, but I couldn't quite reach it myself."
  16. "I wouldn't mind to go to that new movie at the Odeon tonight." "Yes, I would mind that, too."
  17. You mustn't do that again. You should get into trouble at home if you couldn't remember what you parents told you.
  18. He must had studied hard last week to done so well on the test.
  19. Let's not forgetting to buy a gift for the party. Could we to buy them a nice bottle of wine?
  20. "That couldn't have been Shirley on the phone; she said she'll be away on holiday this week."
  21. " Are you sure? It may have been her sister Helen. They sound alike on the phone."

Paragraph Writing

Choose either question 1, 3, 5, or 7 from exercise 32 (SB, page 205).

Marking Scheme
Target grammar—Use at least 8 different
but appropriate modals* 50%
Content 10%
Organization 10%
Mechanics 10%
Grammar (Other than target grammar) 10%
Style 10%
* Please identify all of the modals used.