Revising and Editing Practice

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What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 10? Options:

Change most fraught to more fraught

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Change these to those

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Delete the comma after outsiders

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Sentence 10 should not be changed.

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Change most fraught to more fraught

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Where could the author place the sentence: "Research indicates that massive floods, projected in the 1970s to hit New York every 500 years, might hit the city every five years by 2030."? Options: Before sentence 3, After sentence 3, After sentence 4, The author should not add this sentence to the paragraph.

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After sentence 3

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Which sentence should be added before sentence 11 to transition from the fourth to the fifth paragraph? Options:

How the community decides to go on directly ties into how a family will process a natural disaster.

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Learning about people's habits and decisions plays a big part in how people recover from a disaster.

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Here is a study that looked into the relocation of people after a natural disaster.

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Research indicates that sometimes, the decision is tied to what the rest of the community chooses to do.

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Research indicates that sometimes, the decision is tied to what the rest of the community chooses to do.

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What change needs to be made to sentence 5? Options: Change affected to effected, Insert a comma after journalists, Change your to their, Change have to are

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Change your to their

Front

The author has not used the most appropriate word in sentence 3. Which word best replaces foreboding? Options: menacing, threatening, aggressive, inauspicious

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threatening

Front

What is the most effective way to revise sentence 9? Options:

Survey results indicated residents' satisfaction with their buyouts. Still, the interviews showed a dearth of information and communication, difficulties with the buyout process, and feelings of a lack of choice ("the buyout as a foregone conclusion").

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Survey results indicated residents' satisfaction with their buyouts, but the interviews showed a dearth of information and communication, difficulties with the buyout process, and feelings of a lack of choice ("the buyout as a foregone conclusion").

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Survey results indicated residents' satisfaction with their buyouts, but the interviews showed a dearth of information and communication. Difficulties with the buyout process, and feelings of a lack of choice ("the buyout as a foregone conclusion").

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Sentence 9 should not be revised.

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Survey results indicated residents' satisfaction with their buyouts. Still, the interviews showed a dearth of information and communication, difficulties with the buyout process, and feelings of a lack of choice ("the buyout as a foregone conclusion").

Front

What change should be made to sentence 8? Options:

Insert a comma after 2018

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Change discrepancies to discrepancys

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Change after to before

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Change hurricane sandy to Hurricane Sandy

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Change hurricane sandy to Hurricane Sandy

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How should sentence 1 be changed? Options: Change their to they're, Delete the comma after stay, Change the period to a question mark, Change aftermath to after math

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Change the period to a question mark

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What change, if any, needs to be made to sentence 13? Options: Delete the comma after relocate, Change confidence to confidance, Delete the quotation marks, Sentence 13 should not be changed.

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Sentence 13 should not be changed.