eLearning #9 - Earth Day - error correction

What needs to be changed?

Earth is just the right distance from the sun so that its not too hot or too cold.

• change its to it's

• add a comma after so

• Lowercase Earth

What needs changed?

Rain forests are sometimes called the “lungs of the world" .

• Capitalize forests

• Put the period inside the quotation marks

• Change the period to a question mark.

What needs fixed?

Leaders hoped to raise public awareness of air and water pollution they thought this would make people care about the problems the planet faces.

• put a comma after pollution

• put a period after pollution and capitalize they

• delete the word they

What needs fixed?

However an area of rain forest the size of three soccer fields is cut down every minute.

• Add a comma after However

• change an to a

• change is to are

What needs fixed?

Some gases like carbon dioxide and methane raise the temperature of the Earths atmosphere.

• Change gases to gasses

• add a comma after dioxide

• change Earths to Earth's

• change Earths to Earths'

Which sentence uses commas correctly?

• We can also recycle plastic paper metal and glass so that these materials can be used again.

• We can also recycle plastic paper metal, and glass so that these materials can be used again.

• We can also recycle plastic, paper, metal, and glass so that these materials can be used again.

• We can also, recycle plastic paper metal and glass so that these materials can be used again.

How should the title of Rachel's book be written?

Rachel Carson's 1962 bestselling book silent spring created awareness of the dangerous effects of pesticides.

• Silent spring

• Silent Spring

• no change needed

Where does a comma need placed here?

Until that time protecting the planet was not something people cared about very much.

• after time

• after until

• after planet

• after about

What change is needed?

Back then, not many Americans recycled.

• Change Americans to American's

• No change is needed

• Change Americans to Americans'

What is the correct way to write this quote?

• "That was the remarkable thing about Earth Day" Nelson said.

• "That was the remarkable thing about Earth Day." Nelson said.

• "That was the remarkable thing about Earth Day", Nelson said.

• "That was the remarkable thing about Earth Day," Nelson said.