Training Your Editor's Eye -- 1

1. MercExchange will have to make due with a royalty payment. [ Answer ]
2. The war could effect the election in ways that are entirely unpredictable. [ Answer ]
3. Though still in mourning for his two friends, Joe said he knows their both in heaven. [ Answer ]
4. In the days leading up to the passage of the Civil Rights Act, it was voting and community involvement that affected change. [ Answer ]
5. I could barley see because my eyes were so swollen from crying. [ Answer ]
6. The National Examiner can be attributed to helping celebrities keep themselves in the spotlight. [ Answer ]
7. When being interviewed, some people think they can just say, "Off the record," and continue talking without impunity. [ Answer ]
8. The new plan doesn’t phase them at all. [ Answer ]
9. I wanted to use my experience as a nursing student to help other people prevent going through what I went through. [ Answer ]
10. What are you eluding to? [ Answer ]

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11. The second page of the magazine's table of contents are divided into sections. [ Answer ]
12. The article encourages readers to combat whomever is not in agreement with their point of view. [ Answer ]
13. As an inspiring music producer, I decided that business management would be the better major for me.  [ Answer ]
14. The victory goes not to the swift or the strong, but to he who endures to the end. [ Answer ]
15. When a celebrity comes out with a new clothing line, thousands flee to retail stores to purchase their brand. [ Answer ]
16. Instances like this leaves me with no other choice but to believe that the media has a strong influence on Americans. [ Answer ] 
17. Everyone has an individual that they admire and look to for advice. [ Answer ]
18. But after a while, he realized that I was there to help him, and we started to develop a repartee. [ Answer ]
19. [Headline] Therapy Watch: Should I See a He or a She? [ Answer ]
20. With so many extra things on my plate, I totally loss focus in school. [ Answer ]

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21. Montgomery went on to say though participating in extracurricular activities are beneficial, students often allow such activities to crowd out schoolwork. [ Answer ]
22. Students have issues like everyone else, and those issues attribute to why many students do not graduate on time. [ Answer ]
23. "My daddy was a big part of why I was in college, and for him not to be here was hard for me," said Loftley as she gazes at a picture of her deceased father. [ Answer ]
24. These deadly cells have took the lives of many cancer victims as various forms of treatment have came and gone. [ Answer ]
25. He has been dismiss from the football team as a result of his drug use. [ Answer ]
26. Her excessive intake of stolen Metabolife Ultra in concoction with dwindling food consumption transformed her into an anorexic. [ Answer ]
27. This is the girl whom, Cash said, started the fight. [ Answer ]
28. Some children used cellphones to call their parents, and a couple families drove over. [ Answer ]
29. After four years of intense college work, he matriculated with a bachelor's degree. [ Answer ]
30. Hopkins has seen the affects of exercise on her life. [ Answer ]

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31. She felt blind sighted by the unexpected diagnosis. [ Answer ]
32. She also added that before students "begin to have sex with a new partner and before pregnancy" he or she should be tested for the virus. [ Answer ]
33. Williams is now 25-years-old. [ Answer ]
34. Since indifference, absence, and chicken biscuits don't equal academic success, I had earned a less than salacious college GPA of 1.5. [ Answer ]
35. As me and two friends walked the streets of Amsterdam we saw the Anne Frank house. [ Answer ]
36. Many people gave emotional support to my parents and I . [ Answer ]
37. The injured man lay a in a deep comma. [ Answer ]
38. This problem began when I was about seven-years-old. [ Answer ]
39. Work started every day at six-o-clock in the morning. [ Answer ]

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