EXERCISE 6.1, Correcting Errors in Verb Form

EXERCISE 6.1, Correcting Errors in Verb Form

EXERCISE 6.1

Correcting Errors in Verb Form

Correct the errors in verb form in the following sentences. Some sentences may be correct as written.

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1. When the nineteenth century change into the twentieth, many people in the United States became eager to expel Spain from the Americas.

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2. Cuba, an island that lays ninety miles off the Florida coast, provided them with an excuse to do so.

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3. Cuban rebels were trying to free themselves from Spain, and many Americans wanted to help them.

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4. In addition, many people in the United States wanted to take over Spain’s territories for a long time.

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5. The United States won the war very quickly and assume control of Cuba, the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico.

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6. Cuba was allow to take control of its own affairs right away.

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7. Puerto Rico became a commonwealth in 1952, a position that place it between statehood and independence.

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8. In a 1998 election, the people of Puerto Rico were offered the option of full statehood.

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9. It was rejected by them.

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10. Many Puerto Ricans are worried that statehood would destroy the native culture of their island, and none of them want that to happen.
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