Question

1. jackie always sat in the front row because she liked to focus on the lecture and take good notes, the excessive spitting of her latin professor, however, drove her to the back of the room.
2. latoya tried to concentrate on professor lemons dull art history lecture, but the darkened classroom and endless slide show soon had her dozing in her seat, latoya knew that beverly would poke her with a pencil if professor lemon bothered to glance their way.
3. todd is an amazing cook, he can look into a nearly empty refrigerator and put together an interesting dinner; yesterday, for example, he made a sliced pickle and mayonnaise sandwich, using an old blueberry muffin as bread.
4. watching the home shopping network late one evening, clarence saw handheld televisions advertised for only $49.99, so he bought ten of them, in his lifetime, clarence was certain that he would need them all.
5. when robert is riding his motorcycle, he drives recklessly, weaving dangerously through rush hour traffic, robert does not care that he might leave a kneecap or chunk of thigh speared on a car bumper.
6. during the fall semester, parking on campus is very difficult, students circle the lots like vultures, waiting for an empty space, and most students soon realize that taking a 7 a.m. class, despite the effort it takes to get up that early, at least cures their parking woes.
7. jacques, a self - taught computer whiz, always hates going to his introduction to microcomputers class the reason is that both his textbook and professor are at least a year behind when they discuss apps of artificial intelligence.

Explanation:

These appear to be sentence correction problems (likely for grammar, such as comma splices, run - on sentences, or incorrect conjunctions). Let's take problem 13 as an example:

Problem 13

Step 1: Identify the error

The original sentence "Jackie always sat in the front row because she liked to focus on the lecture and take good notes, the excessive spitting of her Latin professor, however, drove her to the back of the room." has a comma splice. We can correct it by replacing the comma after "notes" with a semicolon or by adding a conjunction. A better way is to use a semicolon before "however" to separate the two independent clauses.

Step 2: Rewrite the sentence

Jackie always sat in the front row because she liked to focus on the lecture and take good notes; however, the excessive spitting of her Latin professor drove her to the back of the room.

Problem 14

Step 1: Identify the error

The sentence "Latoya tried to concentrate on Professor Lemon's dull art history lecture, but the darkened classroom and endless slide show soon had her dozing in her seat, Latoya knew that Beverly would poke her with a pencil if Professor Lemon bothered to glance their way." has a comma splice after "seat".

Step 2: Rewrite the sentence

Latoya tried to concentrate on Professor Lemon's dull art history lecture, but the darkened classroom and endless slide show soon had her dozing in her seat; Latoya knew that Beverly would poke her with a pencil if Professor Lemon bothered to glance their way.

Problem 15

Step 1: Identify the error

The sentence "Todd is an amazing cook, he can look into a nearly empty refrigerator and put together an interesting dinner; yesterday, for example, he made a sliced pickle and mayonnaise sandwich, using an old blueberry muffin as bread." has a comma splice after "cook".

Step 2: Rewrite the sentence

Todd is an amazing cook; he can look into a nearly empty refrigerator and put together an interesting dinner. Yesterday, for example, he made a sliced pickle and mayonnaise sandwich, using an old blueberry muffin as bread.

Problem 16

Answer:

Step 1: Identify the error

The sentence "Jacques, a self - taught computer whiz, always hates going to his Introduction to Microcomputers class the reason is that both his textbook and professor are at least a year behind when they discuss apps of artificial intelligence." has a comma splice (or a run - on) after "class".

Step 2: Rewrite the sentence

Jacques, a self - taught computer whiz, always hates going to his Introduction to Microcomputers class; the reason is that both his textbook and professor are at least a year behind when they discuss apps of artificial intelligence.