English Exercises - Assignment Example

Practice Exercise 1. You can use chlorine bleach to disinfect cloths that you believe are contaminated with germs. 2. After you launder the clothes, you can wear them to the ceremony, but be sure to choose colors that compliment the theme colors: red, white and blue. 3. The Chief Executive Officer is concerned about employee morale, and wants to study whether increased salary or shorter hours will help most. 4. The Personnel Office has information on tuition assistance for courses in history, accounting, computer science and English. 5. Each employee should take their application form to the receptionist in charge of summer extra work opportunities before the fiscal year ends.

Practice Exercise 2: In sentence 2: ‘cloths’, ‘where’, and ‘chose’ should read ‘clothes’, ‘wear’ and ‘choose’. In sentence 3: ‘moral’ and ‘celery’ should read ‘morale’ and ‘salary’. In sentence 4: ‘personal’ and ‘insistence’ should read ‘personnel’ and ‘assistance’. In sentence 5: ‘there’, ‘Sumner’ and ‘physical’ should read ‘their’, ‘summer’ and ‘fiscal’. Spell check did not pick up these errors because the words were misused, not misspelt.

Practice Exercise 3: 6. The United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Arkansas is AR; Minnesota is MN, Arizona is AZ. 7. The proper abbreviation for Doctor of Philosophy is PhD. 8. A small ‘f’ is used to write ‘french fries’ because the geographical name has a specialised meaning (Style Manual 48) 9. An acronym is formed from the initials of other words, and is pronounced as a word (Style Manual 107); e.g. NASA (National Aeronautical and Space Administration). 10. “The company wants to ensure that you succeed in your new job” is correct.

Works cited Official USPS Abbreviations. https://www.usps.com/send/official-abbreviations.htm. 28 Oct. 2012. Style Manual for Authors, Editors and Printers. 5th ed. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1994. Print.