Revise and Editing 2

What is the best change we can make to this sentence:

After I went to the store I went shoe shopping with my friends.

• Change friends to friend's

• Insert a comma after After

• Insert a comma after shopping

• Insert a comma after store

Tags

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

What is the best change we can make to this sentence:

The father helped his children get into they're pajamas.

• Change they're to their.

• Change father to Father

• Change they're to there

• Change helped to helping

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.2.2C

CCSS.L.3.2D

Which sentence uses except or accept correctly?

• Everyone accept Jim went to the park.

• The movie was great except for the ending.

• Lei could not except the fact that she was moving.

• All of the basketball hoops accept one had a torn net.

Which sentence shows correct comma usage?

• The group, although excited, to be traveling stood quietly in line.
• Marcus, one of the new students, tries hard to impress the team. 
• Jess one of my cousins from Seattle, is coming to visit today.
• Their boots which had gotten wet, were by the door.

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Which literary device is used in this sentence?
"As blind as a bat."

• Repetition
• Simlie
• Metaphor
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the best way to combine these sentences?
The girl was little.
She pressed her nose against the window.
The window was icy.
She giggled with delight.
She had never seen snow before.

• The girl was little as she pressed her nose against the icy window, and giggled with delight because she had never seen snow before.
• The little girl pressed her nose against the icy window and giggled with delight because she had never seen snow before.
• Because the little girl pressed her nose against the icy window, she giggled with delight at the never-before seen snow.
• Because, the little girl pressed her nose against the icy window, she giggled with delight at the never-before seen snow.

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.7.1B

Which of the sentences below is correct?
A.  Jill took Justin and I to the shop.
B.  Jill took Justin and me to the shop.

Here's a hint: Take out the other person, and it should be clearer. Jill took I or Jill took me...

• A
• B
• They are both correct.
• They are both incorrect.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1D

CCSS.L.3.1A

Which sentence uses capital letters correctly?

• I would like to attend the 2018 Olympic Games.
• The 2018 olympic games will be held in South Korea.
• In 2018 the winter olympics will be in south Korea.
• South korea is hosting the next Olympic games.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2A

CCSS.L.2.2A

CCSS.L.3.2A

CCSS.L.4.2A

CCSS.L.K.2A

What is the correct way to write sentence 15 and 16?
(13) In January 2009 the Taliban proclaimed that no girl could attend school. (14) Malala and other girls defied this decree, continuing to go to class and study for tests. (15) The 11-year-old also began writing a diary. (16) Which detailed what was happening in her region of Pakistan. (17) The British Broadcasting Corporation soon learned about the diary and helped Malala turn it into an online blog.

• The 11 year old also began writing a diary it detailed what was happening in her region of Pakistan.
• The 11 year old also began writing a diary.  With details about what was happening in her region of Pakistan.
• The 11 year old also began writing a diary that detailed what was happening in her region of Pakistan.
• The sentences in the paragraph are all correct.

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CCSS.L.6.2A

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

Choose the word (s) that best completes this sentence:
The CN Tower opened in 1975.  _________ the tallest free standing structure in Ontario.

• Its'
• It's
• It has

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A