Kamico G9.Assessment 15

Charmaine wants to begin this paper in a way that addresses readers directly. She thinks this will make her writing more interesting by inviting readers into her paper. What sentence would be the most effective to begin this paper?

• Have you ever wished for the ability to read someone's mind?

• Telepathy was once called thought-transference.

• Today, many researchers investigage the way people think.

• Just yesterday, I was thinking about reading people's thoughts.

What is the most effective revision to make in sentence 4?

• People unintentionally communicate their thoughts and feelings without meaning to.

• People regularly and unintentionally communicate their thoughts and feelings.

• People regularly and unintentionally communicate their thoughts without meaning to.

• People regularly and unintentionally communicate without meaning to.

What is the most effective way to combine sentence 6 and 7?

• Microexpressions are subtle, but they can be powerful indicators of a person's thoughts.

• Microexpressions are subtle because they can be powerful indicators of a person's thoughts.

• Now that microexpressions are subtle, they can be powerful indicators of a person's thoughts.

• Microexpressions are subtle unless they can be powerful indicators of a person's thoughts.

The meaning of sentence 9 can be improved by changing doing something to -

• making something happen.

• keeping something.

• not saying it.

• concealing information.

Charmaine wants to add the following detail to the fourth paragraph (sentences 26-32).

Teachers, negotiators, and police officers can condition their voices to mask frustration.

Where is the most logical place to insert this sentence?

• After sentence 26

• After sentence 27

• After sentence 29

• After sentence 31

Charmaine wants to provide a better closing for her paper. Which of the following could best be added after sentence 35 to connect with the ideas in the first paragraph (sentences 1-5) and bring the paper to an effective conclusion?

• Yet, though these cues can guide an analysis of someone's thoughts and feelings, they are far from the telepathy of comic books.

• With new action movies coming out every year, superheroes and their uncanny abilities will continue to delight audiences for years to come.

• Microexpressions cannot be controlled, so they usually provide a better indicator of a person's true emotions.

• Perhaps one day, people will have superpowers such as the ability to fly, see through walls, and read people's minds.

Use "The Queen of Promposal" for questions 6-12

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

• Change "There" to "They're"

• Delete the comma after "said"

• Change the period after "me" to a question mark.

• No change should be made to sentence 1.

What change should be made in sentence 4?

• Delete the comma after "promposals"

• Change "out of the ordinary" to "out-of-the-ordinary"

• Change "are limited" to "is limited"

• Change "imaginations" to "imagineations"

What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 12?

• Change "eastside high" to "Eastside High"

• Change "hoisted" to "hoysted"

• Change the colon after "each" to a semicolon.

• No change is needed in this sentence.

What change needs to be made to sentence 25?

• Change the comma after "cue" to a semicolon

• Change "began" to "beginned"

• Change "portable stereo" to "Portable Stereo"

• Change "brought" to "bringed"