Editing - Food Drive

Editing Practice - "Food Drive"

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HINT: In this assignment, you will have TWO answers that are "Make no change"!

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You may LOOK UP any words to see how to SPELL them!​

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Food Drive

(1) The fifth grade is holding a canned food drive next week. (2) We are helping to collect food for the Lincoln Food Bank. (3) The food drive is part of are school's Community Service Month. (4) As Principal Green says, You are never too young to serve your community."

Multiple Choice

What change should be made in sentence 3?

(3) The food drive is part of are school's Community Service Month.

• Change are to our

• Change school's to schools

• Change Community to Comunity

• Make no change

Multiple Choice

What change should be made in sentence 4?

(4) As Principal Green says, You are never too young to serve your community."

• Change Principal to principal

• Delete the comma after says

• Insert a quotation mark before You

• Change the period to a question mark

(5) In January, each class works on a community service project. (6) The fifth grade is working on helping people who do not have enough money for food. (7) Last month, we read the book Hunger in America to learn about this serious problem. (8) We learned about the millions of people in our country whose refrigerators are nearly empty. (9) We also discovered that many people don't get enough of the vitamins they need to stay healthy. (10) Many families struggle to afford nutritious foods, such as fruits and vegetables. (11) Any people know that to go hungry for even one day is a painful condition.

Multiple Choice

What change should be made in sentence 7?

(7) Last month, we read the book Hunger in America to learn about this serious problem.

• Delete the comma after month

• Change read to reading

• Italicize Hunger in America

• Change this to these

Multiple Choice

What change should be made in sentence 11?

(11) Any people know that to go hungry for even one day is a painful condition.

• Change Any to Many

• Change hungry to hunger

• Change day to days

• Make no change

(12) Hunger effects many families in our town. (13) We discovered that even more families go hungry in the winter because they have to pay for heat as well as groceries. (14) December, January, and February can be dificult months for many families unless we help. (15) That's why, for the final week of January, we are collecting food for people in our community. (16) Food from our cupboards will go to local shelters and to homes of the elderly.

Multiple Choice

What change should be made in sentence 12?

(12) Hunger effects many families in our town.

• Insert a comma after Hunger

• Change effects to affects

• Change families to families'

• Make no change

Multiple Choice

What change should be made in sentence 14?

(14) December, January, and February can be dificult months for many families unless we help.

• Change January to Janruary

• Change months to monthes

• Change dificult to difficult

• Change we to we're

Multiple Choice

What change should be made in sentence 16?

(16) Food from our cupboards will go to local shelters and to homes of the elderly.

• Change shelters to shelter's

• Change homes to home's

• Change elderly to Elderly

• Make no change

(17) We are encouraging people to look through their cupboards for cans for donatiun. (18) Often, students bring in two, three, or more cans of food for our food drive. (19) You bring the food, and we delivering it! (20) We look forward to seeing you at our food drive.

Multiple Choice

What change should be made in sentence 17?

(17) We are encouraging people to look threw their cupboards for cans for donation.

• Change are to were

• Change through to threw

• Change their to they're

• Change threw to through

Multiple Choice

What change should be made in sentence 18?

(18) Often, students bring in two, three, or more cans of food for our food drive.

• Change Often to Oftener

• Delete the comma after three

• Change more to most

• Make no change

Multiple Choice

What change should be made in sentence 19?

(19) You bring the food, and we delivering it!

• Change You to You'd

• Change bring to brings

• Change delivering to deliver

• Change it to them