EDITING (CUPS)

(10) Finally, when everything is just right, we all looks at the camera and smile. (a)  

• Delete the comma after Finally
• Change is to are
• Change looks to look
• No change is needed

(6) As we get out of the car, my mom cries out. "Watch out for the fire ants stay out of the mud, and don't pick the bluebonnets. (7) Everyone better be ready to simile.

What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 7?

• Insert quotation marks at the beginning of the sentence

• Change Everyone to Every one

• Insert quotation marks at the end of the sentence

• No change needs to be made.

(3) Its because she loves having family pictures of us standing in a spring field bursting with thousands of Texas bluebonnets.

• Change Its to It's

• Change loves having to loved to have

• Change standing to stood

• Sentence 3 should not be changed.

(2) Your probably wondering why we do this.

• Change your to you're

• Change wondering to wandering

• Change we to they

• No change should be made in this sentence

(1) Each spring, my mom makes are entire family dress in coordinating outfits to go stand in a big field by the highway. (a)  

• Change spring to Spring
• change are to our
• Change by to buy
• Sentence 1 should not be changed.

(1) On April 10, 1912, the Royal Mail Ship (RMS) Titanic sets sail on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England. (a)  

• Delete the comma after 10
• Change sets to set
• Change its to it's
• No change should be made

(1) After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat too find out all about him: but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people.

What change, if any, should be made to sentence 1?

• Change the semicolon after him to a colon

• Change too to to

• Change no to know

• Make no change

(1) After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him: but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people.

What change should be made to sentence 1?

• Add a comma

• Change consideration to consederable

• Delete the comma after him

• Make no change

It was early in the Spring; there had been a little frost in the night, and a light mist still hung over the woods and meadows.

What change should be made to sentence 2?

• Change Spring to spring

• Delete the semicolon after Spring

• Change light to lite

• Make no change

(3) I and the other colts were feeding at the lower part of the field when we heard, quite in the distance, what sounds like the cry of dogs.

What change should be made to sentence 3?

• Add a comma after 1

• Change heard to herd

• Change sounds to sounded

• Make no change