Editing Practice

The turtles eggs are buried in the sand on the beach.

• Change turtles to turtle's

• Change eggs to egg's

• Change buried to buryed

• No change is needed

Clean your room, then we'll go outside and play catch.

• Change your to you're

• Change then to than

• Insert and before then

• No change is needed

What is the best way to combine these sentences?

Please be quiet. It is impossible to hear the speaker.

• Please be quiet, it is impossible to hear the speaker.

• Please be quiet, and it is impossible to hear the speaker.

• Please be quiet it is impossible to hear the speaker.

• Please be quiet because it is impossible to hear the speaker.

You can find our dog easily because he is wearing a orange collar.

• Change easily to easy

• Delete because

• Change a to an

• No change is needed

What is the best way to write these sentences?

When we have a fire drill. We exit the building quickly and carefully.

• When we have a fire drill, we exit the building quickly, and carefully.

• When we have a fire drill, we exit the building quickly and we exit the building quietly.

• When we have a fire drill, we exit the building quickly and quietly.

• The sentences are correct in the passage.

The fourth of july is the celebration of America's freedom.

• Change fourth of july to Fourth of July

• Change celebration to celebrasion

• Change America's to Americas

• No change is needed

The babies love staring at themselves in the mirror.

• Change babies to babys

• Change staring to stareing

• Change themselves to themselfs

• No change is needed

The boys want to ride the Titan, but their too afraid of fast roller coasters!

• Change boys to boy's

• Change Titan to titan

• Change their to they're

• Change too to to

"Will you pass the potatoes, please" Maggie asked.

• Change pass to past

• Change potatoes to potatos

• Insert a question mark after please

• No change is needed

James found a rock that looks like Abraham Lincoln.

• Change rock to Rock

• Change that to it

• Change looks to look

• No change is needed