Revising and Editing Review

There's science behind the alarm clock that wakes you up, the weather report that influences what you wear, the toothpaste you use to brush your teeth, and even the clean water that comes from your fawcet.

How should this sentence be changed?

• Delete the comma after up

• Change comes to come

• Change fawcet to faucet

• The sentence should not be changed.

In fact, my sister and I became so interested in the topic that we decide to base our joint science project on the concept of increasing efficiency by replacing a human worker with an automated one.

What change need to me made in the sentence?

• Change efficiency to efficiently

• Change decide to decided

• Change automated to automatted

• No change needs to be made in this sentence.

The rain began early in the morning. It fell as hard drops,

morning. It fell as hard drops, one after another. The sky

The sky was full of dark purple clouds. Thunder began as a soft rumble and became louder and louder.Lightning crashed few minutes, making the sky a brilliant white.

What is the main idea?

• The farms needed the rain.

• The thunder hurt people's ears.

• Lightning made the sky bright.

• The storm was very strong.

"As striaght as an arrow" is an example of what?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

"The city was a jungle" is an example of what?

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

“It took a million years for Thomas to finish his homework” is an example of what?

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Alliteration

My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire: I was the third of five sons. He sent me to Emanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I resided three years, and applied myself close to my studies. What is the narration? In first person narrations, the narrator is usually a main character and uses I and me.In third person narrations, the narrator is not a main character and uses

she, he, they or it.

• First Person

• Personification

• Second Person

• Third Person

Mary asked no more questions but waited in the darkness of her corner, keeping her eyes on the window. The carriage lamps cast rays of light a little distance ahead of them and she caught glimpses of the things they passed. What is the narration? In first person narrations, the narrator is usually a main character and uses I and me.In third person narrations, the narrator is not a main character and uses she, he, they or it.

• First Person

• Second Person

• Narration

• Third Person

All I can hear is the whoosh of the wind, the thunder of the car’s metallic wheels, and shrieks of my fellow passengers that are piercing.What is the BEST revision to make in the sentence?

• All I can hear is the whoosh of the wind, the thunder of the car’s metallic wheels, and the piercing shrieks of my fellow passengers

• All I can hear is the whoosh of the wind and the thunder of the car’s metallic wheels, I can also hear my fellow passengers who have piercing shrieks.

• All I can hear is the whoosh of the wind and the thunder of the car’s metallic wheels and my fellow passengers and their piercing shrieks.

• All I can hear is the whoosh of the wind next to the thunder of the car’s metallic wheels beside my fellow passengers who have piercing shrieks.

As the car turns upright and glides to a halt in the station, I know exactly what I’m going to do next.

What is the most effective transition to add to the beginning of the sentence ?

• For example

• To repeat

• On the other hand

• In fact