Question

For the following sentences, highlight the major problem area/areas in the original sentence and generate a new one to correct the problems.

1. There isn’t a lot of studies on this topic.
2. One messed up part about this study was that we can’t know if the participants actually got what the experiment was about.
3. Some people in this study may have been distracted by noise outside the lab. Also, there wasn’t too many people in this study to begin with.
4. Since a lot of students use to get straight A’s in high school, they think they should get straight A’s in college.
5. On the other hand, most everybody in this study were younger than 8.

Answer 1

There are not a lot of studies on this topic.

One messed up part of this study is that we don't know if the participants actually got to know what the experiment was all about.

Some people in this study might have been distracted by the noise outside the lab.

Also, there were not too many people in this study to begin with.

Since a lot of students use to get straight A's in the high school, they think they will get straight A's in the college as well.

On the other hand, everyone in the study was younger than 8 years .