Fish Cheeks Editing & Revising

How would you correct the sentence below?

He was not chinese, but as white as mary in the manger.

• change manger to manager

• Capitalize Chinese and Mary

• Change He to he

• Change white to White

How would you correct the sentence below?

What would Robert think of our shabby Chinese Christmas.

• Change Chinese to chinese

• Change Christmas to christmas

• Change the . to a ?

• Change Robert to robert

What change should be made to the sentence?

When I found out that my parents had invited the minister's family over for Christmas Eve dinner, I cryed.

• Change invited to invented

• Change Eve to Ever

• Change my to mine

• Change cryed to cried.

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

"You must be proud you are different. You're only shame is to have shame."

• Change You're to Your

• Remove the quotation marks

• Change to to two

• No change is needed

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

Robert and his family waited patiently for platters to be passed to them.

• Changing patiently to patent

• Changing platters to patter

• Change Robert to robert

• No change is needed

What change should be made to the sentence?

And even through I didn't agree with her then, I knew that she understood how much I had suffered during the evening's dinner.

• Change knew to new

• Change through to though

• Change how to to howl

• Change her to here

What change should be made to the sentence?

For christmas eve that year, she had chosen all my favorite foods.

• Change For to Four

• Change chosen to choose

• Change christmas eve to Christmas Eve

• Change foods to fruits

What could replace the word underlined below?

The kitchen was littered with appalling mounds of raw food.

• disgusting

• delicious

• delectable

• confusing

What could replace the underlined word below and it have the same meaning?

At the end of the meal my father leaned back and belched loudly, thanking my mother for her fine cooking.

• yawned

• yelled

• coughed

• burped

What change needs to be made to the sentence?

A howl soaking dried fungus back to life.

• Change life to lives

• Change howl to bowl

• Change to to too

• Change soaking to soak