ELAR EOC 3: Editing "Uros Floating Reed Islands."

What change should be made to sentence 5?

• Change have to has

• Change florished to flourished

• Insert a comma after islands

• Change thousands to thousand's

Answer explanation

Changing florished to flourished corrects the spelling error in this sentence.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.3

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.3

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

What change should be made to sentence 14?

• Change university to University

• Change maintaining to having maintained

• Change has to have

• Change historical to historical

Answer explanation

Capitalizing "University" corrects the error in sentence 14 since the University of Iowa is a proper noun, which is a noun that refers to a specific person, place, idea or event.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.3

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.3

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

What change needs to be made in sentence 16?

• Change isolated to isolated

• Delete the comma after people

• Change were to are

• Change their to there

Answer explanation

Changing were to are corrects the error in verb tense by changing sentence 16 to the present tense.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

What is the correct way to write sentence 18?

• Since there is a lure of mainland conveniences for many people. It has caused much of the island-dwelling population to dwindle.

• There is a urethras of mainland conveniences for many island residents, this has caused the island-dwelling population to dwindle.

• Some Uros have been lured to the mainland because of its conveniences, which has cause the island-dwelling population to dwindle.

• Many island residents have moved to the mainland because of the lure of conveniences and a dwindling Uros population.

Answer explanation

Making this revision improves clarity because it accurately states the cause-and-effect relationship.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.3

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.3

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.3