Friday 16 September 2011

Help with this pleaseee number 2!!!!!?

(1) Typical gadget lovers are capable of wandering into a store looking for an egg timer and coming out with one that times three cooking tasks at once. (2) At the same time, they will pick up a battery-operated car window defroster and magnetic money clip. (3) They will also choose a pronged spaghetti spoon instead of something expensive like an electronic pasta maker. (4) Such a spoon may be harder to use and more difficult to clean than a regular spoon, but it gives the buyer the feeling that it will make one of life鈥檚 little tasks easyer and more pleasant. (5) In fact, part of the hidden appeal of a gadget is that if they are ever used, they usually make things more complicated. (6) People鈥檚 favorite gadgets may never be used at all. (7) For example the combination baseball cap-umbrella may well find a permanent resting place on a closet shelf. (8) Often, purchasing a gadget can substitute for doing a task, for example, buying an extendable feather duster for cleaning the cobwebs off the ceiling is so satisfying that there is probably no need to do the actual dusting. (9) An even better gadget is the folding Swiss knife that has twenty-four features, including a screwdriver, bottle opener, fish scalar, ruler, and magnifying glass. (10) Such a purchase is so often admired and so little used that it is the ideal choice for gadget lovers.

Sentence 4: Such a spoon may be harder to use and more difficult to clean than a regular spoon, but it gives the buyer the feeling that it will make one of life鈥檚 little tasks easyer and more pleasant. What correction should be made to this sentence?



insert a comma after use

remove the comma after regular spoon.

replace but with or

change life鈥檚 to lives

change the spelling of easyer to easier

Sentence 6: People鈥檚 favorite gadgets may never be used at all. What correction should be made to this sentence?



change People鈥檚 to Peoples鈥?br>
insert a comma after gadgets

replace may never with never may

change be used to being used

no correction is necessary

Sentence 2: At the same time, they will pick up a battery-operated car window defroster and magnetic money clip. Which of the following is the best way to write the underlined portion of this sentence? If you think the original is the best way, choose option (1).



they will

they might

you might

he or she will

one will

Sentence 1: Typical gadget lovers are capable of wandering into a store looking for an egg timer and coming out with one that times three cooking tasks at once.

If you rewrote sentence 1 beginning with 'What is typical of gadget lovers' the next words should be:



who wander

is that they

that they

in a store

is wandering
Help with this pleaseee number 2!!!!!?
Sentence 4 - change the spelling of easyer to easier

Sentence 6 - no correction is necessary

Sentence 2 - they might

Sentence 1 - is that they
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