Here’s the completed chart based on the grammar and punctuation rules:
| Correct | Incorrect | |---------|-----------| | | The theme of the poems were complex. | | | The friend who I studied with helped me a lot. | | | Summer’s favorite childhood books were Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown, The Little House, by Virginia Lee Burton, and Mathilda, by Roald Dahl. | | ✔️ | Within the box was an old, elegant, beautiful necklace, which Allison immediately adored. | | | My English class were locating sources for our essays. |
Explanation:
- "The theme of the poems were complex." - Incorrect (Subject-verb agreement: "theme" is singular, so it should be "was").
- "The friend who I studied with helped me a lot." - Incorrect (The correct phrasing is "The friend with whom I studied helped me a lot," but it's commonly accepted in informal language).
- "Summer’s favorite childhood books were Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown, The Little House, by Virginia Lee Burton, and Mathilda, by Roald Dahl." - Incorrect (The titles should be in italics or quotation marks; there's also a missing conjunction before the last item or it should be properly punctuated).
- "Within the box was an old, elegant, beautiful necklace, which Allison immediately adored." - Correct (The structure is fine, and the punctuation is used correctly).
- "My English class were locating sources for our essays." - Incorrect (Subject-verb agreement: "class" is singular, so it should be "was").