STAAR Review: Revising and Editing

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Which of the following is a correctly punctuated complex sentence? Options: After, I got home from school, I walked the dog, put away laundry, and finished my homework., After I got home from school, I walked the dog, put away laundry, and finished my homework., After I got home from school I walked the dog, put away laundry, and finished my homework.

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After I got home from school, I walked the dog, put away laundry, and finished my homework.

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What change should be made in sentence 3? (3) Leaves brush against your windows and the chirps of birds echo through your room.

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Insert a comma after windows

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What change should be made to sentence 18? (18) In Sweden their is a tree house hotel that is shaped like a bird’s nest.

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Change their to there

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What is the correct way to write sentence 22? (22) The Frio River Treetop is closer to home it is located near Leakey, Texas.

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The Frio River Treetop is closer to home. It is located near Leakey, Texas.

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What is the correct way to write sentence 10?

(10) One kind of air bubble is shaped like a circle and called a bubble ring it happens to be the perfect sea toy.
Options:
One kind of an air bubble is shaped like a circle and called a bubble ring. Happening to be the perfect sea toy.
One kind of air bubble is shaped like a circle, and called a bubble ring. Then it happens to be the perfect sea toy.
One kind of air bubble is shaped like a circle, called a bubble ring it happens to be the perfect sea toy.
One kind of air bubble is shaped like a circle. It is called a bubble ring, and it happens to be the perfect sea toy.

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One kind of air bubble is shaped like a circle. It is called a bubble ring, and it happens to be the perfect sea toy.

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How should sentence 11 be changed? (11) Many Scientists have filmed and photographed dolphins playing with bubble rings. Options: Change Scientists to scientists, Insert a comma after filmed, Change playing to play, Change rings to ring

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Change Scientists to scientists

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What is the best combination of the two sentences?
Options:
1. She wanted to go to prom and she never asked for permission.
2. She wanted to go to prom; never asked for permission.
3. She wanted to go to prom but she never asked for permission.
4. Although she wanted to go to prom, she never asked for permission.

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Although she wanted to go to prom, she never asked for permission.

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What change should be made in the sentence: "I had always been fascinated with chemistry, biology, and math, but since those interest hadn't fit Tyson's definition of cool, I never pursued it."? Options: Change fascinated to fisinated, Delete the comma after cool, Change had never pursued to hadn't never pursued, Change it to them.

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Change it to them

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What correction should be made to the sentence: "The newly commissioned vessel was initially assigned to defend other U.S. ship's from pirate attacks."?

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Change ship's to ships

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Identify the correction needed in the sentence: Occasionally, when we don't get what we want, something even better is waiting for us around the corner!

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Change Occasionaly to Occasionally