Please Help Correct And Not Revise These Sentences?

1. George Says

   There are sixteen errors in the sentences below:
   If Cindy works faster then her, shouldn’t Cindy be hired? (error is then for than)
   We felt badly that Mark’s home was not chose for the tour.(error is chose for chosen)
   Neither the company nor the workers is pleased at how slow the talks seems to be progressing. (error is at for with)
   Just between you and I, it’s better not to take his remarks personal. (error is I for me) (second error is personal for personally)
   After completing there floor by floor inventory, managers will deliver there reports to Mr. Quinn and I.(error is there for their) (second error is there for their) (third error is I for me)
   If my cell phone was working, Jean and myself could have completed our calls. (error is was for had been) (second error is myself for I)
   Powerful software and new hardware allows us to send the newsletter to whomever is currently listed in our database. (error is allow for allows)
   The eighteen year old girl and her mother was given hot cups of tea after there ordeal. (error is was for were) (error is there for their)
   We begun the work two years ago, but personnel and equipment has been especially difficult to obtain.
   (error is begun for had begun) (second error is has been for had been)
   Today’s weather is worst then yesterday. (error is then for than)
   Good luck.

2. ? Says

   I truly recommend a grammar book, in which everything is explained. Read it and use common sense to find the answers. The errors you didn’t find are basic errors.
   (kids these days are so lazy…)

3. Den B7 Says

   How can I correct without revising?
   revise |riˈvīz|
   verb [ trans. ]
   1 reconsider and alter (something) in the light of further evidence : he had cause to revise his opinion a moment after expressing it.
   • reexamine and make alterations to (written or printed matter) : the book was published in 1960 and revised in 1968 | [as adj. ] ( revised) a revised edition.
   • alter so as to make more efficient or realistic : [as adj. ] ( revised) the revised finance and administrative groups.
   2 [ intrans. ] Brit. reread work done previously to improve one’s knowledge of a subject, typically to prepare for an examination : students frantically revising for exams | [ trans. ] revise your lecture notes on the topic.
   1 than not then
   2 chosen not chose
   3 were not is 4 slowly not slow 5 seemed not seems
   6 personally not personal
   7 their not there 8 their not there 9 me and Mr. Quinn
   10 i not myself

4. tywins Says

   1
   16 issues found in this text
   Score: 41 of 100
   Report generated on Wed, Jan 25 2012 08:03 PM
   Contextual
   Spelling Check
   3
   issues
   Commonly confused words (3)
   Grammar 8
   issues
   Pronoun agreement (1)
   Use of adjectives and adverbs (1)
   Subject and verb agreement (1)
   Verb form use (1)
   Conditional sentences (1)
   Passive voice use (3)
   Style and Word
   Choice
   5
   issues
   Writing style (5)
   If Cindy works faster then her, shouldn’t 1 ( should not ) Cindy be hired?
   Writing issues in this paragraph:
   1 Contraction use
   We felt badly that Mark’s home was not chose 2 ( choosing, chosen ) for the tour.
   Writing issues in this paragraph:
   2 Verb following “to be” not in form of past/present participle.
   Neither the company nor the workers is pleased at how slow the talks seems to be progressing.
   Just between you 3 and I, it’s 4 ( it is, it has ) better not to take his remarks personal . 5
   Writing issues in this paragraph:
   3 Personal pronoun may not be appropriate for formal or academic writing.
   4 Contraction use
   5 Adjective (instead of adverb) modifying verb.
   After completing there 6 ( their, there ) floor by floor inventory, managers will deliver there 7
   ( their, there ) reports to Mr. Quinn and I. 8
   Writing issues in this paragraph:
   6 Commonly confused words
   2
   7 Commonly confused words
   8 Pronoun used in incorrect case.
   If my cell phone was working, Jean and myself could have completed our 9 calls. 10
   Writing issues in this paragraph:
   9 Personal pronoun may not be appropriate for formal or academic writing.
   10 Wrong verb tense or verb form in mixed unreal conditional clause.
   Powerful software and new hardware allows 11 ( allow ) us to send the newsletter to whomever is
   currently listed in our 12 database.
   Writing issues in this paragraph:
   11 Noun and Verb Number Agreement
   12 Personal pronoun may not be appropriate for formal or academic writing.
   The eighteen year old girl and her mother was given hot cups of tea after there 13 ( their, there )
   ordeal.
   Writing issues in this paragraph:
   13 Commonly confused words
   We begun the work two years ago, but personnel and equipment has been especially difficult to
   obtain.
   Today’s weather is worst then yesterday.
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