Paragraph Editing #2 (Adv)

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Read the passage and correct the underlined error: When I turned the doorknob, it open easy.

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the door easily opened.

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Correct the underlined error in the passage: "When I turned the doorknob, it open easy. I was immediately spicious; the door should of been locked on a weekend at midnight. I was carefully push the door open. It was pitch black inside. I couldn’t even see my own hand on the doorknob. I heard a low growl and felt something brushed past me. What was it? A tiger…a lion…a wild beast? “There he is said Mr. O’Malley, owner of the building. “Come on, Butchy,” he called to the dog. “Time to go home.” Mr. O’Malley looked at me for a moment. Then he said “I know, I know. I shouldn’t had left the door open. I came back to lock it –– and to find Butchy.”

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suspicious

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Correct the underlined error in the passage: "When I turned the doorknob, it open easy. I was immediately spicious; the door should of been locked on a weekend at midnight. I was carefully push the door open. It was pitch black inside. I couldn’t even see my own hand on the doorknob. I heard a low growl and felt something brushed past me. What was it? A tiger…a lion…a wild beast? “There he is said Mr. O’Malley, owner of the building. “Come on, Butchy,” he called to the dog. “Time to go home.” Mr. O’Malley looked at me for a moment. Then he said “I know, I know. I shouldn’t had left the door open. I came back to lock it –– and to find Butchy.”

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should have been locked

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Correct the underlined error: I was carefully push the door open.

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carefully pushed

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Correct the underlined error: "brushed past me."

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brush past me.

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Read the passage and choose the correction for the underlined error: "There he is said Mr. O’Malley, owner of the building."

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he is,” said

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Read the passage and choose the correction for the underlined error: When I turned the doorknob, it open easy. I was immediately spicious; the door should of been locked on a weekend at midnight. I was carefully push the door open. It was pitch black inside. I couldn’t even see my own hand on the doorknob. I heard a low growl and felt something brushed past me. What was it? A tiger…a lion…a wild beast? “There he is said Mr. O’Malley, owner of the building. “Come on, Butchy,” he called to the dog. “Time to go home.” Mr. O’Malley looked at me for a moment. Then he said “I know, I know. I shouldn’t had left the door open. I came back to lock it –– and to find Butchy.” Options: said, “I, said “,I, said, I, Correct as is

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said, “I

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Correction for the underlined error in the passage: "I shouldn’t had left the door open."

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have left

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Read the passage and choose the correction for the underlined error: My fourth-grade son built an end table for me last week.

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Correct as is

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Correct the underlined error in the sentence: "It is the most elegant little table I had ever own."

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I have ever owned.