Hows Your English?

Engage in some self-competition, the healthiest there is. The best kind of
competition, after all, is one where you compete only with yourself (de los
Reyes, 2008).
Exercise 1
Directions: Identify which of the following sentences contain errors in formal
standard English. If the sentence is correct (i.e. contains absolutely no error),
write C before the number. If the sentence contains errors (a sentence can
have as many as four), write your correction just above the error. WATCH YOUR
ENGLISH!
1. Are any of the stationaries alright?
2. I prefer Company A than Company B, irregardless of your exaggerated report.
3. A number of full time employees handcarries selected items to some
sort

of

special

advisor.
4. The full-pledged CPA has an embarassing part-time past-time.
5. We look forward for your delivery of the equipments in July 4, 20xx.
6. We would appreciate if you can be present in our routinary meeting this week.
7. In spite of inadequate data, a staff targeted an early deadline for himself.
8.

A study of the three options have proved that the biannual issues

appeared

on

2005

and

2007.
9. Persistence is when a salesman tries to cope up with rejection by
visiting

prospects

again and again.

10. Our dilemma on the disappearing funds will result to less laborers.
11. The sign No parking on both sides, made of first class luminous
material,
wall since 2006.

was

on

the

12. Your jewelries and luggages will be taken cared of by your assistant.
13. I wish that one of the executive who apprise employee performance
will
unaware.

be

caught

14. The reason we visit you weekly is because we hope you could finish
the

project

soon,

otherwise we shall do it ourselves.

15. The expatriate said that he will lie low after discussing about farther developments.
16. Statistics on market acceptance of our products seem to show that
flammable

items

are

not popular.
17. The accomodations of Hotel A on 911 Rescue Avenue are not an exquisite as Hotel
B.
18. If you had called with regards the furnitures, we would know the
latest

about

your

technical design.
19. The treasurer budgeted our resources before he left in search for his morning mails.
20. As our valued client, we will not withold your occasional privileges.
21. Two thirds of his real estate are used for target practice, according to
the

data

which

inputted yesterday.
22. May I request for one more week, in as much as you have focused on a
full-time

follow

up of the ten-story building and its status.

23. His personnel has been compared with a strong breed of horses,
however,

he

prefers

not to be known as a horse himself.

24. The trainor has began working on the advance booking for the
shows

allotted

to

employees before he advised us to sell the tickets.

25. It depends who is in charge, and if the cost of materials are

excessively

high,

we

shall

produce it ourselves and aim for a savings of ten thousand dollars.

From de los Reyes, Rodolfo A. 2010. Watch Your

English: Practical Grammar at Your
Fingertips.
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