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D Editing for Grammar

Lesson $D-2$

Exercise $11$

Practice

Edit the following paragraph for grammar. Make the changes suggested in the directions below. Write the corrected paragraph on the lines.

$(1)$ All over the country, plant trees on Arbor Day. $(2)$ The first Arbor Day in Nebraska on April $10,1872.(3)$ At that time, Nebraska was treeless the people, however, planted more than a million trees on the first Arbor Day. $(4)$ Arbor, the Latin word for "tree," gived the holiday its name. $(5)$ Nebraskans were not certain their new trees would survive, but most growed well. $(6)$ By $1888,$ Nebraskans over $350$ million trees and shrubs. $(7)$ The tree$-$planting holiday catched on elsewhere, too. $(8)$ Other states adopted Arbor Day more and more people now recognize the importance of trees.

Directions

a$.$ Sentence $1$ needs a subject to state a complete thought.

b$.$ Sentence $2$ needs a verb to state a complete thought.

c$.$ Sentence $3$ is actually two sentences run together. Use an end mark to separate the two sentences.

d$.$ The irregular verb in Sentence $4$ is incorrect. Write the correct form of the verb.

e$.$ The irregular verb in Sentence $5$ is incorrect. Write the correct form of the verb.

f$.$ Sentence $6$ needs a verb to state a complete thought.

g$.$ The past tense verb in Sentence $7$ is incorrect. Write the correct form of the verb.

h$.$ Sentence $8$ is actually two sentences run together. Use an end mark to separate the two sentences.