CUPS and ARMS quiz

What is the mnemonic device to help you revise and piece of writing?

• CUPS

• ARMS

• PITS

• SINKS

Two books I love about pugs are pugalicious and the pug who ate the world.

What change needs to be made in this sentence?

• Change pugalicious and the pug who ate the world to Pugalicious and The Pug Who Ate The World

• Change and to ,and

• Change I to i

• No changes need to be made

(5) Give cool sport drinks. (6) In addition to that, do not give any liquids with caffeine.

What is the most effective way to combine sentences 5 and 6?

• A. If you give cool sports drinks, do not give the liquids with caffeine. Remove

• A.Give cool sports drinks, and do not give any liquids with caffeine.

When editing a piece of text which mnemonic device should you use?

• ARMS=Add, Remove, Move, Substitue

• PITS= Pull, It, Through, Slime

• CUPS= Capitalization, Usage, Punctuation, Spelling

• LIDS= Let, It, Down, Slowly

What does the word homonym mean?

• Words that are spelled the same but sound different

• Words that have similar meaning

• Words that mean the opposite

• Words that sound the same, but have different meaning and spelling

Max threw the frisbee so hard that it was stuck up in the tree over they're.

What changes can be made to this sentence

• Change threw to through S-spelling

• Change so to ,so P-Punctuation

• Change they're to there S-Spelling

• Change the to these U-Usage

What does the M in ARMS stand for

• Move

• Make

• Melt

• Mask

What are you suppsoe to capitalize in CUPS?

• Names, Places, Months, Titles

• Seasons, time, animals, furniture

• objects and verbs

Use CUPS to answer the question:

(21) For example, Cambodia, Bulgaria, and Syria receive about 75 percent of their freshwater from rivers that flow across the borders of hostile upstream neighbors. (22) This has prompted them to predict that access to water will one day replace oil as the main cause of war

The meaning of sentence 22 is unclear. What is the most effective way to clarify the meaning of that sentence?

• A. Change This to it U-Usage

• B.Change them to some analysts U-Usage

• C.Change water to it U-Usage

• D.Change main to primary U-Usage

Me and my pug love to do stuff together.

What change needs to be made in this sentence

• A. Change pug to Pug

• B. Change do to doing

• C. Change Me and my pug to My pug and I

• D. No changes need to be made.