Sentence Errors Review: Quiz 1

Please identify the sentence error in the following passage:

In 1836, the Battle of the Alamo was fought, Davy Crockett was one of the Americans killed by Mexican troops.

Please identify the sentence error in the following passage:

Hans Geiger, who invented the Geiger counter, actually spent some time working with Ernest Rutherford. The latter being famous for his work in nuclear physics.

Please identify the sentence error in the following passage:

Picking his nose, the teacher gave Joey a detention.

Please identify the sentence error in the following passage:

Throughout my teaching career, I have only given a tiny number of failing grades.

Please identify the sentence error in the following passage:

I wrote an essay about Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, whose father was killed by his uncle.

Please identify the sentence error in the following passage:

Oily and slimy, Carl had a hard time holding on to the rope.

Determine whether the following sentence is correct or contains a dangling modifier:

My grandmother always used to say that it was “cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.” Meaning that the weather was especially nasty.

Please identify the sentence error in the following passage:

We came across some purple mushrooms strolling through the woods. I have never seen such psychedelic mushrooms.

Please identify the sentence error in the following passage:

Male seahorses receive the eggs and store them in their pouches. It is one of the few creatures where the male is pregnant.

Please identify the sentence error in the following passage:

Each of those tourists have never been here before.