Sports Firsts and Facts
Monday
Numbers, Abbreviations, Verb (Tense)
Original Sentence
At one time, about sixty-five % of the members of the National Basketball Association are African American.
Corrected Sentence
At one time, about 65 percent of the members of the National Basketball Association were African American.
Tuesday
Comma (Addresses and Nonrestrictive Phrases and Clauses), Numbers
Original Sentence
The first female jockey was Alicia Meynell who won 2 races in York England in 1804.
Corrected Sentence
The first female jockey was Alicia Meynell, who won two races in York, England, in 1804.
Wednesday
Comma (Appositives), Numbers, Using the Right Word, Spelling
Original Sentence
Isaac Murphy a famous African American jocky was the first man too win the Kentucky Derby 3 times.
Corrected Sentence
Isaac Murphy, a famous African American jockey, was the first man to win the Kentucky Derby three times.
Thursday
Numbers, Comma (Dates), Semicolon, Subject-Verb Agreement
Original Sentence
The first Indianapolis 500 was held on May 30 1911 the prize were 25,000 dollars.
Corrected Sentence
The first Indianapolis 500 was held on May 30, 1911; the prize was $25,000.
Friday
Comma (Numbers and Nonrestrictive Phrases and Clauses)
Original Sentence
In 1927, Violet Cordery became the first woman to drive around the world traveling 10266 miles at 24 miles per hour.
Corrected Sentence
In 1927, Violet Cordery became the first woman to drive around the world, traveling 10,266 miles at 24 miles per hour.
Hoops
Comma, Spelling, Semicolon, Numbers, Verb (Tense), Subject-Verb Agreement
Original Paragraph
Basketball was invented in Springfield Massachusetts and is become the world's most popular indoor sport. The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League merged in 1949 forming the National Basketball Association or NBA. The NBA is our country's largest professional basketball leag. It consist of twenty-nine teams divided into two conferences and 4 divisions. Each of the 29 teams play an 82-game schedule in the regular season then the best teams competes in the championship play-offs.
Corrected Paragraph
