EOC Editing practice

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 5?

Sentence 5: I assumed that reading a work by Shakespeare would be a tedious task one that was unrelated to my own life and times.

• Change tedious to tedeous (correct spelling)

• Insert a comma after task (dependant clause explaining task)

• Change unrelated to unrelatted (correct spelling)

• No change should be made in this sentence. (mistake in sentence)

What change needs to be made in sentence 7?

Sentence 7: Now I want to convince others that the plays of Shakespeare is timeless, entertaining, and actually quite accessible.

• Change others to other’s

• Change is to are

• Change quite to quiet

• Change accessible to accessable

What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 12?

Sentence 12: Its true that I live thousands of miles and hundreds of years from the setting of Romeo and Juliet.

• Change Its to It’s

• Change thousands to thousand’s

• Insert a comma after miles

• Sentence 12 does not need to be changed.

What is the correct way to write sentence 18?

Sentence 18: Mercutio baits Tybalt, he calls him names and provokes a fight.

• Mercutio baits Tybalt. Who calls him names and provokes a fight.

• Mercutio baits Tybalt by calling him names. Which is provoking a fight.

• Mercutio baits Tybalt, calling him names and provoking a fight.

• Sentence 18 is written correctly in the paper.

What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 22?

Sentence 22: Hearing that his friend has died , an enragged Romeo turns on Tybalt.

• Change Hearing to He heard

• Delete the comma

• Change enragged to enraged

• No change needs to be made in sentence 22.

What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 23?

Sentence 23: What begun as two young men taunting each other ends in tragedy.

• Change begun to began

• Insert a comma after other

• Change tragedy to trajedy

• No change needs to be made in sentence 23.

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 30?

Sentence 30: So when my teacher handed out Hamlet that day, I didn’t worry about struggling through a boring tale with outdated characters.

• Delete the comma

• Change through to threw

• Change boring to borring

• No change should be made in sentence 30.