Complex Sentences LC Review

What is the most effective revision to make in the sentence below?

Studies show that the average distance before it reaches your plate that most food travels is 1,500 miles!

• Studies show that the average distance most food travels before it reaches your plate, it is a distance of 1,500 miles!

• Studies show that the average distance most food travels before it reaches your plate is 1,500 miles!

• Studies show this. That the average distance most food travels before it reaches your plate is 1,500 miles!

• Studies show that the average distance. Most food travels before it reaches your plate is a distance of 1,500 miles!

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CCSS.L.4.1F

What change, if any, should be made to the sentence below?

Jose Altuve is one of the best players on the Houston Astros.

• Change Altuve to altuve

• Change best to most best

• Insert a comma after players

• Make no change

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CCSS.L.3.1G

What change, if any, should be made to the following sentence?

When I dropped my math paper, I bended down to get it.

• Delete the comma after paper

• Change math to Math

• Change dropped to droped

• Change bended to bent

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CCSS.L.3.1D

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

Arnold wants to add a sentence to the beginning of his paragraph below to introduce the ideas in this paragraph (topic sentence). What sentence below would be BEST to add before sentence 1?

(1) Shield volcanoes have broad, gentle slopes. (2) Cindercone volcanoes are pointed, kind of like pyramids. (3) Strato-volcanoes have many lairs of rock formed by hardened lava and ash from previous eruptions. (4) Dome volcanoes were shaped like steep mounds and are the result of slow-flowing lava.

• Many of the largest volcanoes on Earth are shield volcanoes.

• There are four basic types of volcanoes.

• Volcanoes can be found in Hawaii, California, and Alaska.

• Volcanoes are openings in the Earth's surface.

What change, if any, should be made to the sentence below?

Eating an unhealthy lunch could negative affect how well a student does in school.

• Change negative to negatively

• Insert quotation marks around the sentence

• Change does to do

• Change unhealthy to unhealthily

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CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1G

What change, if any, should be made to the sentence below?

Tonya wishes she could be shorter for all her pants are not long enough.

• Change wishes to wish

• Insert a comma after for

• Change shorter to shortest

• Insert a comma before for

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CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

What change, if any, should be made to the sentence below?

Everyone is treated more fair when people take turns at school.

• Insert a comma before when

• Change more to most

• Change fair to fairly

• Change turns to turn

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CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1G

Which sentence does NOT belong in this paragraph?

(5) Whatever the type, volcanoes happen in places where the plates of the earth’s crust touch each other. (6) There are many active volcanoes all over the world. (7) Hurricanes also happen in many parts of the world. (8) Some volcanoes in the United States are in places like Washington, Colorado, and Hawaii. (9) Some volcanoes are even under water, far below the surface of the ocean.

• Sentence 5

• Sentence 7

• Sentence 8

• Sentence 9

What is the most effective revision to make in the sentence below?

Volcanoes erupt, they can change many things.

• Volcanoes erupt, and they can change many things.

• Volcanoes erupt because they can change many things.

• Volcanoes can change many things, when they erupt.

• When volcanoes erupt, they can change many things.

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CCSS.L.4.1F

What change, if any, should be made to the sentence below?

Over the summer, my family always takes a trip to the beech!

• Change beech to beach

• Change summer to Summer

• Delete the comma after summer

• Change the exclamation mark to a question mark

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CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.2.2C

CCSS.L.3.2D