1. Day 1 Verb tense compatibility Use of hyphen in compound adjective Formation of irregular plural noun Charles Dickens sympathizes with the downtrodden in society and waged a literary campaign against selfishness and cruelty. Early crisises in the author’s life may have prompted his desire to improve society; Dicken’s father’s debts landed him in jail, and twelve year old Charles had to go to work in a factory. Possessive form of name ending in s

2. Day 1 Verb tense compatibility Use of hyphen in compound adjective Formation of irregular plural noun Charles Dickens sympathized with the downtrodden in society and waged a literary campaign against selfishness and cruelty. Early crises in the author’s life may have prompted his desire to improve society; Dickens’s father’s debts landed him in jail, and twelve-year-old Charles had to go to work in a factory. Possesive form of name ending in s

3. Day 2 Elimination of unnecessary exclamation point Subject and verb agreement Elimination of unnecessary preposition Correct spelling: addition of suffix -ness The title character of Oliver Twist, Dickens’s second novel, is a young, mistreated orphan involved in London’s criminal underworld! There are, as always in Dickens, enough of humor to keep the story entertaining despite the solemness of the problems it depicts.

4. Day 2 Elimination of unnecessary exclamation point Subject and verb agreement Elimination of unnecessary preposition Correct spelling: addition of suffix -ness The title character of Oliver Twist, Dickens’s second novel, is a young, mistreated orphan involved in London’s criminal underworld. of There is, as always in Dickens, enough humor to keep the story entertaining despite the solemnness of the problems it depicts. __

5. Day 3 Elimination of an illogical comparison Most critics claim Bleak House is better than any novel by Dickens because of its most unique structure and many levels of meaning. An attack on wasteful legal processes, Bleak House also talks about a range of social ills ranging from false humanitarians to poor sanitation. Elimination of superlative with absolute adjective Use of vivid verb to improve style Elimination of redundancy

6. Day 3 Elimination of an illogical comparison Most critics claim Bleak House is better than any other novel by most Dickens because of its unique structure and many levels of meaning. An attack on wasteful legal processes, Bleak House also exposes a range of social ills ranging from false humanitarians to poor sanitation. Elimination of superlative with absolute adjective Use of vivid verb to improve style Elimination of redundancy ______ ____

7. Day 4 Correction of commonly misused words Who has not heard of the miser Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, who’s greed has cut him off from human love. In Dombey and Son, Dickens again turns to this theme, showing how family members become embittered among theirselves over money. Use of end punctuation: question mark Use of correct form of reflexive pronoun

8. Day 4 Correction of commonly misused words Who has not heard of the miser Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, whose greed has cut him off from human love? In Dombey and Son, Dickens again turns to this theme, showing how family members become embittered among themselves over money. Use of end punctuation: question mark Use of correct form of reflexive pronoun

9. Day 5 Subject and verb agreement Great Expectations explore the values of its young hero, Pip, he gradually learns to base his life on true human sympathy. Use of relative clause to correct run-on sentence Use of apostrophes to indicate separate possession Correction of commonly misspelled words The author’s last novel, Our Mutual Friend, again criticizes goverment and people’s hypocrisies.

10. Day 5 Subject and verb agreement Great Expectations explores the values of its young hero, Pip, who gradually learns to base his life on true human sympathy. Use of relative clause to correct run-on sentence Use of apostrophes to indicate separate possession Correction of commonly misspelled words The author’s last novel, Our Mutual Friend, again criticizes government's and people’s hypocrisies.