2. 1. Since the day I knew that I was going back to China, I prayed for the time to go faster.(This was already corrected in your book.)
3. 2. ** Flying on the airplane. I looked out the window in anticipation.(“Flying” is a gerund or, noun. “Flying on the airplane is not a complete sentence because it has no verb.)
4. 2. Flying on the airplane, I looked out the window in anticipation,OR
5. 2. While I was flying on the airplane, I looked out the window in anticipation.(Note the comma; “while” is an adverbial expression at the beginning of the sentence.)
6. 3. **The images along the highway from the airport to my hometown.(This is a noun phrase. There is no verb.)
7. 3. The images along the highway from the airport to my hometown reminded me of my childhood.(The subject of the correct sentence is in bold face; it is a long noun phrase that includes two prepositional phrases. The verb of the correct sentence is underlined.)
8. 4. **The home of my grandparents, a place familiar to me.(This is a noun phrase. There is no verb.)
9. 4. The home of my grandparents was a place that was familiar to me.(In this case, the sentence is correct if you just put in a verb.)
10. 5. **Aplace where I used to play with my friends and spent most of my childhood.(This is a noun phrase. There is no verb.)
11. 5. Itwasaplace where I used to play with my friends and spent most of my childhood.This is correct if I put in a subject and a verb and use the long noun phrase as the complement of the verb.
12. 6. **My grandmother who I hadn’t seen for a long time. She called me by my Chinese name.
13. 6. My grandmother, who I hadn’t seen for a long time, called me by my Chinese name.(The best way to fix this sentence is with an adjective clause.)
15. 7. **I was surprised to hear that name, my friends all use my American name.
16. 7. I was surprised to hear that name because friends all use my American name.This repairs the comma splice with the adverbial expression “because.” You can also use “since” or “as.”
17. 8. **Some things in my grandmother’s apartment were still the same some looked different.
18. 8. Some things in my grandmother’s apartment were still the same, but some looked different. (Use the conjunction “but” to combine the two sentences.
19. 9. **I looked around, I saw my cousin looking at me, she had grown a lot.
20. 9. I looked around, and I saw my cousin looking at me. She had grown a lot.(The first two sentences should be connected. The last one needs to be a separate sentence.) OR
21. 9. When I looked around, I saw my cousin looking at me. She had grown a lot. Here, the first two sentences are combined using an adverbial expression.
22. 10. **At the time I left, she was just seven, I could see that now we were the same height.
23. 10. At the time I left, she was just seven, but I could see that now we were the same height.(Repair this comma splice with the conjunction “but.”)
24. 11. **We used to be very close to each other, but at that moment, she was quiet, she just looked at me.(This sentence has two correct commas and one comma splice.)
25. 11. We used to be very close to each other, but at that moment, she was quiet and just looked at me.(The comma splice has been repaired with “and.” No comma is needed because the subject was not repeated.)
26. 12. **Maybe she was shy, or there was a gap between us, I wasn’t sure.(This sentence has one correct comma and one comma splice.)
27. 12. Maybe she was shy, or there was a gap between us; I wasn’t sure.(The comma splice has been repaired with a semi-colon.)
29. 1) Everything that Arnett see in Vietnam is related to her limited memory and her imagination about Vietnam.
30. 2) **She compares what she thought before and what she see in reality; for example, she see exactly the same exotic fruits, hear the same language in her home country.
31. 2) She compares what she thought before and what she seesin reality; for example, she sees exactly the same exotic fruits, hear the same language in her home country.
32. 3) **She feel very happy and comfortable about that; however, later she feels disappointed about the fact that the tofu custard in Vietnam is not as good as before and even worse than the tofu custard in the U.S.
33. 4) **At the end of the article, she realize that Vietnam is not her home anymore.
34. 4) At the end of the article, she realizesthat Vietnam is not her home anymore.
35. 5) **It is not a place for her to live because she has already been Americanized for a long time and the U.S. have replaced Vietnam to become her home.
36. 5) It is not a place for her to live because she has already been Americanized for a long time and the U.S. hasreplaced Vietnam to become her home.
