EDITING EXERCISE #3

Choose the appropriate word missing from each sentence

--- for the flat tire and engine problem, the trip to the coast went well.

• ACCEPT

• EXCEPT

The volleyball team will have --- awards banquet Friday night.

• Its

• It's

"Step --- and be counted," the preacher told the students.

• forth

• fourth

More than --- juniors were named to the National Honor Society.

• twenty

• 20

Students choked on the cloud of dust as the bus rolled ---.

• past

• passed

Jim Baker placed --- in a national editorial writing contest.

• 3rd

• third

The band director asked the boys to be ---.

• quite

• quiet

Playing the --- of Hamlet is Marcus Wilson.

• roll

• role

The meeting will begin at ---.

• 6 p.m.

• 6:00 pm

• 6 P.M.