"Fish Cheeks Revising & Editing Practice

How would you correct the sentence below?

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

• Change "was" to "is"

• Change "manger" to "manager"

• Capitalize "chinese"

• Change "but" to "and"

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

How would you correct the sentence below?

What would Robert think of our shabby Chinese Christmas.

• Change "would" to "does"

• Change the period to a question mark

• Add Robert's last name

• Change "Chinese" to "chinese"

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

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 "cryed" to "cried"

• Change "Eve" to "eve"

• Change "invited" to "invented"

• Change "my" to "mine"

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

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."

• No change is needed

• Change "You're" to "Your"

• Remove the quotation marks

• Change "different" to "differant"

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

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

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

• No change is needed

• Add a comma after "waited"

• Change "patiently" to "patient"

• Change "and" to "or"

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

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.

• Remove the comma after "then"

• Change "through" to "though"

• No change is needed

• Change "had" to "have"

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

What change should be made to the sentence?

For Christmas Eve that year she had chosen all my favorite foods.

• Put quotation marks around the sentence

• Change "Eve" to "eve"

• Add a comma after "year"

• Change "For" to "After"

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What word could replace the word underlined below?

The kitchen was littered with appalling mounds of raw food.

• disgusting

• confusing

• delicious

• delectable

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What word 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,

• yelled

• yawned

• coughed

• burped

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What change needs to be made to the sentence?

In a howl the dried fungus was soaking to bring it back to life.

• No change is needed

• Change "howl" to "bowl"

• Change "soaking" to "soak"

• Change "life" to "health"

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A