Following and Active Verbs
Homework Assignment
Modules 14, 15, and 16
Due Date: April 1, 2012
Module 14: Fixing errors in Grammar and Punctuation
Identify and correct the errors in the following sentences.
a. Company’s are finding it to their advantage to cultivate their suppliers. Partnerships between a company and its suppliers can yield hefty payoffs for both company and supplier. One example is Bailey Controls, an Ohio headquartered company. Bailey Controls make control systems for big factories. They treat suppliers almost like departments of their own company. When a Bailey employee passes a laser scanner over a bins bar code, the supplier is instantly alerted to send more parts.
b. Entrepreneur, Trip Hawkins, appears in Japanese ads for the video game system his company designed. “It plugs into the future!”, he says in one ad in a cameo spliced into shots of U.S. kids playing the games. Hawkins, is one of several US celebrities and business people whom plug products on Japanese TV.”
c. Mid-size firms, employing between 100 and 1,000 people represent only 4% of companies in the U.S.; but create 33% of all new jobs. One observer attributes their success to their being small enough to take advantage of economic opportunity’s agilely, but big enough to have access to credit and to operate on a national or even international scale. The biggest hiring area for mid-size company’s is wholesale, retail sales (38% of jobs), construction (20% of jobs, manufacturing (19% of jobs), and services (19% of jobs).
Module 16: Changing Verbs from Passive to Active
Identify the passive verbs in the following sentences and convert them to active verbs. In some cases, you may need to add information to do so. You may use different words as long as you retain the basic meaning of the sentence. Remember that imperative verbs are active too.
1. The Marketing team wrote the Problem Solving Report.
2. You must take personal leave within a 12-month period, or it expires.
3. Darrian posted the
Modules 14, 15, and 16
Due Date: April 1, 2012
Module 14: Fixing errors in Grammar and Punctuation
Identify and correct the errors in the following sentences.
a. Company’s are finding it to their advantage to cultivate their suppliers. Partnerships between a company and its suppliers can yield hefty payoffs for both company and supplier. One example is Bailey Controls, an Ohio headquartered company. Bailey Controls make control systems for big factories. They treat suppliers almost like departments of their own company. When a Bailey employee passes a laser scanner over a bins bar code, the supplier is instantly alerted to send more parts.
b. Entrepreneur, Trip Hawkins, appears in Japanese ads for the video game system his company designed. “It plugs into the future!”, he says in one ad in a cameo spliced into shots of U.S. kids playing the games. Hawkins, is one of several US celebrities and business people whom plug products on Japanese TV.”
c. Mid-size firms, employing between 100 and 1,000 people represent only 4% of companies in the U.S.; but create 33% of all new jobs. One observer attributes their success to their being small enough to take advantage of economic opportunity’s agilely, but big enough to have access to credit and to operate on a national or even international scale. The biggest hiring area for mid-size company’s is wholesale, retail sales (38% of jobs), construction (20% of jobs, manufacturing (19% of jobs), and services (19% of jobs).
Module 16: Changing Verbs from Passive to Active
Identify the passive verbs in the following sentences and convert them to active verbs. In some cases, you may need to add information to do so. You may use different words as long as you retain the basic meaning of the sentence. Remember that imperative verbs are active too.
1. The Marketing team wrote the Problem Solving Report.
2. You must take personal leave within a 12-month period, or it expires.
3. Darrian posted the