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Tutorial Activity: Grammar/Mechanics Review Exercise # 1 Directions: The following sentences contain errors in grammar, punctuation, capitalization, number style, usage, and spelling. Below each sentence write a corrected version. 1. About one thousand of Burger Kings seven thousand four hundred u.s. resterants is serving the new coated fries. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ __ 2. Meanwhile the highly-advertised McDonald’s 55-cent sandwich promotion which was pushed heavy by its Oak Brook Headquarters turned out to be a major disappointment. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ __ 3. A powerful reason for Burger Kings new success is, a hefty 2 patty burger thats being promoted as an extra big Big Mac. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ __ 4. After listening carefully to your advise we paid several months rent in advance. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ __ 5. When convenent will you please send me 3 copys of the companys color logo?

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Tutorial Activity: Grammar/Mechanics Review Exercise # 1 ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ __

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Tutorial Activity: Grammar/Mechanics Review Exercise # 1 6. In Newsweek I saw an article titled How to develop the exercise habit. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ 7. Appearing next is the President and Sales Manager both of whom were personally invited by myself. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ __ 8. Production cost and markup is important to the manufacturer and to we vendors. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ __ 9. The only president to win a pulitzer prize is John F. Kennedy for Profiles in courage. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ __

10. Anyone of the Vice Presidents are authorized to sign checks, however for amounts that are over 10 thousand dollars 2 signatures are required. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ __ 11. To be admitted an application must be submitted before April 1st.

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Tutorial Activity: Grammar/Mechanics Review Exercise # 1 ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ __

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Tutorial Activity: Grammar/Mechanics Review Exercise # 1 12. Although twenty percent of Campbell Soup Companys sales now come from outside the United States the Company expects to increase that number to thirty percent, by 2002. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ __ 13. The sierra club recommend investing in “socially responsible” companys such as the quaker oats company. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ __ 14. Some organizations worry that valueable company information may be stole over the internet. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ __

15. Jennifer completed a b.s. degree in Accounting, before taking a job with the boeing company. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ __ 16. The number of students taking Foreign Language courses are decreasing everyyear. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ __

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Tutorial Activity: Grammar/Mechanics Review Exercise # 1 17. To ensure valid survey results each of the fortune 500 companies were sent a questionnaire by the researchers. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ __ 18. When Donna Sparks became Vice President of Customer Support at Xerox the support center was receiving more than ten thousand calls a month. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ __

19. Amy miller president of quad graphics met privately with her director of marketing. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ __

Source: Guffey, M. E. (2001). Essentials of business communication (5th ed.). International Thomson Publishing

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