Sentence Skills Assignment
INSTRUCTIONS: Retype the following sentences into a Word document and then correct any and all errors in sentence structure, phrasing, and word choice in the sentences below. Sections S and L-6 in your handbook can be of particularly good help here as you try to figure out and correct what’s not working in these sentences.
Due to the fact that the treadmill of consumption keeps running, consumers never get a chance to escape from the pressures to want more.
In Gladwell’s essay it says that “[p]urchasers, for example, spent an average of eleven minutes and twenty-seven seconds in the store” (93).
By giving in to the shiny objects ethos, it forces consumers who cannot afford expensive things to spend money they do not have.
The reason the treadmill of consumption does not stop. You are too gullible to marketing forces.
There is a way to get off of the treadmill of consumption, however, doing so will require a radical change of habits.
Focusing on the “everything now” mindset has caused American society some real problems. Such as enormous amounts of debt and even more enormous landfills full of discarded stuff.
The package design for Apple products reinforces the brand’s status as high-end, the simple but solid white boxes with minimal text and clean lines suggest luxury and comfort.
The decompression zone and the invariant right are two concepts related to shaping how we consume. This should make buyers more aware the next time they enter a store.
The current pandemic has forced consumers to stay home, this hasn’t stopped them from spending all of their time shopping online, though.
She saw her neighbors come home with a trunk load of toilet paper she wanted to confront them about their hoarding however she couldn’t get close enough because of social distancing.
