Read the following passage either out loud or to yourself, looking for the following five mistakes: 1-fragment, 1-run-on sentence, 1-missing comma, 1-missing apostrophe, and 1- verb mistake. rewrite the paragraph correctly and underline your corrections: when a group of rare white lions arrived at the philadelphia zoo. it was an exciting event. the lions were the only ones of their kind in north america they soon became the zoo's most popular exhibit. the lions are native to southern africa. they are so rare because of a problem caused by their unusual color. most lions, with their golden-brown color, can sneak through grass and trees without being detected. but the moonlight shining on the white lions' coats make it difficult for them to hunt at night. its too easy for other animals to see them. therefore most white lions in the wild starve to death. although all the white lions in philadelphia are female, the zoo is hoping to get a white male soon and raise a family of white lion cubs.

Match each excerpt to the correct stanza structure. 1. it was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of annabel lee; and this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me. (from "annabel lee" by edgar allan poe) 2. o thou, new-year, delaying long, delayest the sorrow in my blood, that longs to burst a frozen bud and flood a fresher throat with song. (from "in memoriam" by alfred lord tennyson) 3. nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. her early leaf’s a flower but only so an hour. then leaf subsides to leaf. so eden sank to grief,; so dawn goes down to day. nothing gold can stay. (from "nothing gold can stay" by robert frost) 4. at sestos hero dwelt; hero the fair, whom young apollo courted for her hair, and offered as a dower his burning throne, where she should sit for men to gaze upon. the outside of her garments were of lawn, the lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn; (from "hero and leander" by christopher marlowe) quatrain couplet octave sestet