2nd Six Weeks Editing Review

2nd Six Weeks Editing Review

Multiple Choice

(28) There’s no way to avoid Mondays, so join me in making the best of it.

What change should be made in sentence 28?

• Change There’s to There isn’t

• Change me to myself

• Insert a comma after me

• Change it to them

Multiple Choice

(26) I realize that I was probably not going to convince everyone that Monday is the best day of the week, but hopefully I can encourage a few people to change their attitude.

What change should be made in sentence 26?

• Change was to am

• Delete the comma after week

• Change their to there

• Change attitude to atitude

Multiple Choice

(25) While last weeks topics may have been boring, Monday can bring a new book to read, experiment to conduct, or math concept to tackle.

What change needs to be made in sentence 25?

• Change weeks to week’s

• Change boring to borring

• Change the first comma to a period

• Change experiment to experament

Multiple Choice

(20) For example, last week I got behind on my homework, and had to spend the weekend catching up.

What change should be made in sentence 20?

• Change example to exampel

• Change got to gotten

• Delete the comma after homework

• Change had to have

Multiple Choice

(15) And according to consumer websites Monday is the best day to get a good deal on a car because there aren’t as many people shopping on the first day of the workweek.

What change should be made in sentence 15?

• Change consumer to consummer

• Insert a comma after websites

• Change as many to hardly as many

• Change shopping to shoping

Multiple Choice

(13) Furthermore, quite a few legal holidays, including Presidents’ Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, and Columbus Day, they are celebrated on Mondays.

What is the correct way to write sentence 13?

• Furthermore, quite a few legal holidays are celebrated on Mondays. Including Presidents’ Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, and Columbus Day.

• Furthermore, quite a few legal holidays, including Presidents’ Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, and Columbus Day, are celebrated on Mondays.

• Furthermore, quite a few legal holidays, including Presidents’ Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, and Columbus Day. They are celebrated on Mondays.

• Sentence 13 is written correctly in the paper.

Multiple Choice

(12) If you are a sports fan, you may get to watch Monday Night Football in the Fall.

How does sentence 12 need to be changed?

• Change are to were

• Delete the comma

• Insert a comma after Football

• Change Fall to fall

Multiple Choice

(9) I don’t agree with all these sentaments.

What change should be made in sentence 9?

• Change I to And

• Insert a comma after agree

• Change sentaments to sentiments

• Make no change

Multiple Choice

(5) Songwriters has even written lyrics about dreading Mondays.

What change needs to be made in sentence 5?

• Change has even written to has even wrote

• Change has even written to have even written

• Change has even written to even writing

• No change needs to be made.