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Once again, from Paul Brians’s find book Common Errors in English Usage, here is a worksheet on the use of the verb manufacture and the noun manufacturer. This is a full-page worksheet with a reading of two sentences and ten modified cloze exercises. This is, in other words, a heavily supported document. Like just about everything else at Mark’s Text Terminal, however, this is a Microsoft Word document you may manipulate freely for the needs of your students.

And let me mention, once more, that Paul Brians generously allows access to his usage manual at his Washington State University webpage.

If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

Once again, in an adaptation from Paul Brians’ book Common Errors in English Usage (to which he generously offers free access at his Washington State University web page), here is a worksheet on the use of the noun majority. This noun, one of a few of its type I imagine, governs both the use of the singular and plural verb. And that is what Professor Brians seeks to clarify in this passage.

Students are called upon to evaluate five teacher-authored sentences, then compose fives sentences of their own with majority used properly.

If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.