Correcting Faulty Coordination

1. Clark Gable was one of America’s most popular actors, and he starred in Gone with the Wind.

2. I jogged to the park, and crowds filled the lawns.

3. The lava flows stretch many miles in Hawaii, and they cut a swath through the otherwise dense vegetation.

4. Someone built a miniature replica of the White House, and it has lights and a television that actually work.

5. The suitcases were packed, and we set off on vacation.

6. The alarm woke me up this morning, and it was still dark.

7. Jill was looking for a job, and she had been fired last week.

8. The clerk rang up my purchase, but she did it incorrectly, and I asked her to re-total it, and she did, but she made another mistake, and the manager finally fixed it.

9. Star Wars was Tom’s favorite movie, and he saw it eighteen times.

10. The plane took of fifteen minutes behind schedule, and it arrived at its next stop on time.