Correct the misused or missing articles and rewrite the paragraph:

 

Stars are large balls of spinning hot gas like our sun. The stars look tiny because they are far away. Many of them are much larger than sun. Did you know that a Milky Way galaxy has between two hundred billion and four hundred billion stars in it? Scientists estimate that there may be as many as five hundred billion galaxies in an entire universe! Just like a human being, the star has a life cycle from birth to death, but its lifespan is billions of years long. The star is born in a cloud of cosmic gas and dust called a nebula. Our sun was born in the nebula nearly five billion years ago. Photographs of the star-forming nebulas are astonishing.

 

Exercise 4: Rewrite the following paragraph by correcting the errors in the past-tense negative sentences.

 Gifty no did call me when she reached North Carolina. I was worried because she not drove alone before. She was going to meet her friend, Backary, who lived in a town called Asheville, North Carolina. I did never want to worry, but she said she was going to call Return to Table of Contents 188 when she reached there. Finally, four hours later, she called and said, "Mom, I'm sorry I did not call. I lost track of time because I was so happy to see my friend Backary!" I was relieved.

 

Exercise 5: Correct the double negatives and rewrite the following sentences.

1. Jose didn't like none of the choices on the menu.

 

2. Luiza can't make no friends with nobody.

 

3. The Southwest hardly had no rain last summer.

 

4. My kids never get into no trouble.

 

5. I could not do nothing about the past.