IMPROVE WRITTEN ENGLISH WITH THE USAGE OF “BAG”
- Rewrite in emphatics: Here I opened the bag, and she went through it eagerly, probably expecting to find something to eat.
- Correct with sequence of tenses: She snatched her bag and hurried home, not reflecting on her behavior until she tossed her coat on the bed.
- Correct the usage of adverb: She dressed comfortably and packed her overnight bag, then searched the room, certain she was forgetting something.
- Correct the sequence of tenses: “Guess you won me,” Martha said as she dropped a duffle bag on the hall floor.
- Correct the sequence of tenses: She opened them until she found one and placed the bag in the cup.
- Correct the punctuation: Amused, he dropped the sweater into the bag, grabbed a few more and a pair of jeans.
- Correct the sequence of tenses: When he was satisfied, he lifted the bag and stepped away.
- Correct the appositive: or complement of place: Halfway through the third bag, the girl let out a soft moan.
- Fill in the lost word to complete the so-that clause: The gardener put his hand under his cloak and drew out the very bag that the merchant had lost.
- Correct the punctuation and sequence of tenses: Her face flushed, and when her mother attempted to take the bag from her, she grew very angry.
- Correct the appositive: Katie piled the potatoes in another pan and picked it up, along with the knife and a bag of peals.
- Correct the compound adjective, punctuation and sequence of tenses: My specially soaked rag was secure in a plastic bag so I withdrew it and had it over the child’s face before she turned to see who entered.
- Correct the punctuation: The retreating blonde woman’s rope and crampons lay discarded at the edge of the path, the bag from their recent purchase crumpled nearby.
- Correct the usage of that clause in written English: It’s like he needed her to be his punching bag, at least verbally if not physically.
- Fill in one preposition to use the prepositional phrase: He put the bag on the bed and stood staring at it for a moment.
- Correct the structure of this statement: Good thing Bianca sent him off this morning with a bag full.
- Correct the appositive: She hit the punching bag harder, sweat dripping down her body and soaking her leggings and sports bra.
- Correct the sequence of tenses: She was wedged into a corner chair with one hand in a bag of cookies while the other took notes.
- Change ending relative adjective clause into the participial phrase: The merchant put the gold in a bag of purple silk which he tied to his belt underneath his long cloak.
- Correct the punctuation and appositive: “The whole day has been a disaster,” Dean said as he settled into an easy chair in his bedroom, a shopping bag in his lap.
- Correct the prepositional phrase adverbial: She visited the small café and dropped three boxed lunches into a tote bag along with extra cocoa and marshmallows in case Toby woke up soon.
- Correct the punctuation: Without a word, she dashed back to her room and crammed a change of clothes in a bag, along with her books.
- Correct the sequence of tense, the usage of especially, conditional tenses, and filling in the prepositional phrase: It was very pleasant, when I stayed late in town, to launch myself into the night, especially if it was dark and tempestuous, and set sail from some bright village parlor or lecture room, with a bag of rye or Indian meal upon my shoulder, for my snug harbor in the woods, having made all tight without and withdrawn under hatches with a merry crew of thoughts, leaving only my outer man at the helm, or even tying up the helm when it was plain sailing.
- Correct the usage of possessive relative pronoun used for things and the usage of adverb of frequency in the past not in the present: It was very exciting at that season to roam the then boundless chestnut woods of Lincoln–they now sleep their long sleep under the railroad–with a bag on my shoulder, and a stick to open burs with in my hand, for I did not always wait for the frost, amid the rustling of leaves and the loud reproofs of the red squirrels and the jays, whose half-consumed nuts I sometimes stole, for the burs which they had selected were sure to contain sound ones.