Revising and Editing-EXTRA

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What change, if any, should be made in the sentence: "The main explaination is that, unlike most deep-sea whales, humpbacks are not shy."?

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Change "explaination" to "explanation".

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What change, if any, should be made in the sentence: "They offen swim close to boats and other sailing vessels."?

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Change offen to often

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(18) In warm water, humpbacks are natural musishuns, and spend a lot of time singing. What change, if any, should be made in sentence 18?

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Change musishuns to musicians

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What change, if any, should be made in the sentence: "Their songs are made up of a series of clicks, whissles, and hums and are arranged in different ways, with different melodies and patterns."?

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Change whissles to whistles

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What change, if any, should be made in the sentence: "They may even be unique signals or communications."?

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Make no change

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What change, if any, should be made in the sentence: "Because their feeding, mating, and calving grounds are close to shore and because they are slow swimmers, the humpback whales were an easy target for early whalers."?

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Make no change

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What is the correct way to write sentence 4?

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“Gee, Hector, it looks like you’ll be doing the cooking for a while,” his dad said.

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(7) He located a cookbook, called Home Cooking, and he began to look through the pages. (8) At last, he settled on a recipe—rice with shrimp. What is the correct way to write sentence 7?

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He located a cookbook called Home Cooking, and he began to look through the pages.

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What change, if any, should be made in the sentence: (5) I will! Hector asked.?

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Change I will! to “I will?”

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Which word could BEST be emphasized in the sentence: “I cannot eat this—it's too hot!” to show how unhappy Mia is?

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cannot