Writing - Editing and Revising - Unit 3

(1) The giant tortoise lives up to its name by growing up to 4-5 feet in length and weighing close to 500 pounds! (2) More amazing is that the giant tortoise can live for more than one hundred years. (3) My grandma lived to be 87 years old. (4) The oldest known giant tortoise lived to be 152 years old.

Which sentence should be deleted from the paragraph?

• Sentence 1

• Sentence 2

• Sentence 3

• Sentence 4

They mostly eat grasses and they eat leaves and they eat cactus.

What is the BEST way to revise this sentence?

• They mostly eat grasses and they eat leaves because they eat cactus.

• They mostly eat grasses, leaves, and cactus.

• They mostly eat grasses, and they eat leaves, and they eat cactus.

• They mostly eat grasses and leaves, and they eat cactus.

The giant tortoise lives up to its name by growing up to 4-5 feet in length and weighing close to 500 pounds.

What change if any should be made?

• Change lives to has living

• change by to buy

• Change close to closely

• No change

They are able to store food and water within their bodys for long periods of time.

What change, if any, should be made?

• Insert a comma after food

• change bodys to bodies

• change the period after time to a question mark

• No change

In the past, humans have been this reptiles worst predator.

What change if any should be made?

• Change have to has

• Change reptiles to reptile's

• Change worst to wurst

• No change

Thankful, these amazing reptiles are increasing in number because of scientists and others who have dedicated themselves to saving this unique species.

What change, if any, should be made?

• Change Thankful to Thankfully

• change increasing to increaseing

• change others to other's

• Make no change

A possessive noun shows that something belongs to something else. Which of the following shows possession?

• girl's doll

• boys playing

• dolls sitting

• girls running

Which list shows the correct use of commas?

• grasses, leaves and cactus

• grasses leaves, and cactus

• grasses, leaves, and cactus

• grasses leaves and cactus,