Daily Edit 11

What changed needs to be made in the following sentence?
However after I left the exam, I realized I had made an honest error and quickly regretted my decision. 

• Change an honest to a honest
• Insert a comma after error
• Delete the comma after exam
• Insert a comma after however 

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CCSS.L.6.2A

CCSS.L.4.2C

What changed needs to be made in the following sentence? 
But we weren’t laughing for long; Mr. Parker hadn’t took the band director’s job to be funny.   

• Delete the semicolon 
• Change took to taken 
• Change director’s to directors’ 
• Nothing needs to be changed 

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CCSS.L.9-10.2A

The meaning of sentence 23 is unclear. What is the most effective way to clarify the meaning of this sentence?
(19) Government decisions affect your life every day.  (20) How can you complain about issues concerning school funding, the environment, and health care if you don’t even take the time to vote on proposals involving those issues?  (21) It’s astounding to me that one of the lowest voter turnout rates in the United States is what Texas has.  (22) In fact, in a recent presidential election, only about 55 percent of eligible Texans cast a vote.  (23) And in local elections sometimes less than 10 percent of the voting population chooses who will make them. 

• Change sometimes to there are times when  
• Change population to citizenry  
• Change chooses to selects  
• Change them to those important decisions  

What is the correct way to write the following sentences?
It connects your brain to your spinal cord. Which connects to most of the nerves in your body. 

• It connects your brain to your spinal cord, this connects to most of the nerves in your body.  
• Connecting your brain to your spinal cord and then to most of the nerves in your body. 
• Connecting your brain to your spinal cord. It connects to most of the nerves in your body. 
• It connects your brain to your spinal cord, which connects to most of the nerves in your body. 

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CCSS.L.6.2A

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

What change, if any, should be made to the following sentence?
Three hundred miles isn’t hardly that far, so you would probably expect the island to be home to the same sorts of plants and animals found on the mainland.   

• Change hardly to really 
• Change animals to animal’s  
• Insert a comma after plants 
• No change should be made in this sentence.

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CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.2.2C

CCSS.L.3.2D

What is the BEST way to revise the following sentence?
It’s astounding to me that one of the lowest voter turnout rates in the United States is what Texas has. 

• Because it’s astounding to me, Texas has one of the lowest voter turnout rates in the United States.  
• It’s astounding to me what Texas has being one of the lowest voter turnout rates in the United States.  
• It’s astounding to me that Texas has one of the lowest voter turnout rates in the United States.  
• As astounding as it is, it’s also shocking that Texas has one of the lowest voter turnout rates in the United States.  

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CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.8.1C

CCSS.L.K.1D

What is the most effective way to combine the following sentences?
This idea of taxation without representation is part of the reason our forefathers were determined.
They wanted to separate from Great Britain and form their own nation. 

• This idea of taxation without representation is part of the reason our forefathers were determined, who wanted to separate from Great Britain and form their own nation.  
• This idea of taxation without representation is part of the reason our forefathers were determined to separate from Great Britain and form their own nation.  
• This idea of taxation without representation is part of the reason our forefathers were determined because they separated from Great Britain and formed their own nation.   
• This idea of taxation without representation is part of the reason our forefathers were determined separating from Great Britain and forming their own nation.  

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CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.7.1B

What changed needs to be made in the following sentence? 
Although I was to old to cry about the situation, tears threatened to spill down my cheeks anyway. 

• Delete Although  
• Change to old to too old  
• Delete the comma  
• Change cheeks to cheek’s  

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CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.2.2C

CCSS.L.3.2D

What changed needs to be made in the following sentence? 
Even worse, the tentacles become extra sticky when they’re in contact with skin, so trying to remove it can make a sting even more severe. 

• Change become to became
• Change they’re to their
• Delete so  
• Change it to them  

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CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1D