Editing Practice

(1) Without warning a gigantic twisting tentacle burst out of an dark sea. (2) As flexible as a human hand, it snatches a sailor from the deck of his ship. (3) A single scream pierces the night. (4) The sailor and the creature are gone

What change needs to be made to sentence 1?

• Change an to a

• Change sea to see

• Change Without to without

• Change warning to warn

(1) Without warning a gigantic twisting tentacle burst out of an dark sea. (2) As flexible as a human hand, it snatches a sailor from the deck of his ship. (3) A single scream pierces the night. (4) The sailor and the creature are gone

What is punctuation is missing in sentence 4?

• a comma (,) after sailor

• a period (.) after gone

• a question mark (?) after creature

• an apostrophe (') on sailor

(1)Scientists know that sometimes deep, cold ocean currents change their course, moving closer to the surface. (2) Animals that normally live in the depths, including giant squid, may be transported by wayward currents into new territory, often to warmer, shallower water closer to land. (3) there the dramatic differences in water temperature can kill deep-sea animals. (4) Scientist suspect that these conditions existed at the times when dead giant squid washed ashore off the eastern coast of Canada

What change needs to be made in sentence 4?

• Change Scientist to scientist

• Change of to off

• Insert a period after Canada

• Change giant to giants

(1)Scientists know that sometimes deep, cold ocean currents change their course, moving closer to the surface. (2) Animals that normally live in the depths, including giant squid, may be transported by wayward currents into new territory, often to warmer, shallower water closer to land. (3) there the dramatic differences in water temperature can kill deep-sea animals. (4) Scientist suspect that these conditions existed at the times when dead giant squid washed ashore off the eastern coast of Canada

What change needs to be made in sentence 3?

• Change in to into

• Change there to There

• Insert a question mark after animals

• Insert a comma after there