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Sentence Skills, Form A book cover
Sentence Skills, Form A, 7/e
John Langan, Atlantic Cape Community College
Omitted Words and Letters

Writing On and Offline

These writing prompts are followed by text boxes for your input. If you are working online and your instructor has given you the go-ahead, you can send your work to him or her by clicking the "Submit Answers" button. If you are working offline, you will have to copy your answers (CTRL-C on most systems) and paste them (CTRL-V) into a text document to retain a record of your work.





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Activity 1:

Do you sometimes incorrectly omit small words like a, an, and the? Take a look at this page from the Purdue OWL. Was it helpful?
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Activity 2:

Finding omitted words and letters takes proofreading skill, and this only comes with practice. Find a student essay online and read it, keeping a close look out for omitted words and letters. Did you find any? Did the student writer omit the usual words (for example, a, an, the)?








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