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Tham khảo tài liệu 'the official guide to the new toefl ibt part 31', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Run-on sentence Maria and John like skiing Karen does not. Corrected sentence Although Maria and John like skiing Karen does not. 4. Connect the parts of the run-on sentence with a semicolon. Run-on sentence Gordon laughed at Sandy s joke it was funny. Corrected sentence Gordon laughed at Sandy s joke it was funny. Run-on sentence thought he was here I was wrong. Corrected sentence I thought he was herei I was wrong. summary Run-on sentences are two or more sentences that have been joined together without a conjunction or the correct punctuation. You can usually correct them by using punctuation or conjunctions. WORD ERRORS Noun Forms A noun is usually defined as a person place or thing. Person man woman waiter John book Place home office town station Hong Kong Thing table car apple money music love dog monkey Learning a few basic rules will help you to use nouns effectively 1. In English some nouns are countable. That is they are things that we can count. For example house. We can count houses. We can have one two three or more houses. Here are more examples of countable nouns dog cat animal man person bottle box pound coin dollar bowl plate fork table chair suitcase bag Countable nouns can be singular or plural. Singular I have a friend. Plural I have two friends. 2. Usually to make nouns plural add -s as in the examples given above friend-friends . However there are special cases where you do not add -s. When a word ends in -ch -s -sh -ss or -x the plural is formed by adding -es. benches gases dishes dresses taxes When a word ends in -y preceded by a consonant b d m n p the plural form is -ies. parties bodies policies When a word ends in -y preceded by a vowel the plural is formed by adding -s. trays joys keys When a word ends in -o the more common plural ending is -oes. tomatoes potatoes zeroes heroes WRITER S HANDBOOK 297 When the final -o is preceded by a vowel the plural ending is -os. videos studios When a word ends in -f the plural is formed either by .