The Bugman Stumbles

(8) So imagine my reaction when I lucked out during todays' vocabulary exercise.

How should sentence 8 be changed?

• change imagine to imagining

• insert a semicolon after reaction

• change todays' to today's

• sentence 8 should not be changed

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

(9) "This, ladies and gentlemen," Mr. Potter announced as he held up a hat, "Contains all the words on your vocabulary list."

What change needs to be made in sentence 9?

• change ladies to lady's

• change announced to announsed

• delete the comma after hat

• change Contains to contains

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

(11) Then we would have 15 minutes to look up the word and prepare a breif oral report on its meaning, origin, and alternate forms.

What change should be made in sentence 11?

• insert a comma after word

• change prepare to prepared

• change breif to brief

• change its to it's

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

(14) When I unfolded mine I let out a whoop.

What change should be made in sentence 14?

• delete When

• insert a comma after mine

• change I let out to and let out

• sentence 14 should not be changed

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.8.3

(20) I jotted down some notes about the word's origin along with a couple of example sentences, the rest of the report would be a breeze.

What is the correct way to write sentence 20?

• I jotted down some notes about the word's origin along with a couple of example sentences. Sure that the rest of the report would be a breeze.

• I jotted down some notes about the word's origin. Which along with a couple of example sentences meant that the rest of the report would be a breeze.

• I jotted down some notes about the word's origin along with a couple of example sentences. The rest of the report would be a breeze.

• The sentence is written correctly in the paper.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

(25) Confidently approaching the board, I said the word entomology allowed and wrote its definition in big, bold letters.

What change should be made in sentence 25?

• change Confidentely to Confidentally

• change approaching to approach

• change the first comma to a period

• change allowed to aloud

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

(32) The laughter seems to be coming from every corner of the classroom.

What change needs to be made in sentence 32?

• change seems to seemed

• insert a comma after coming

• change from to it was from

• no change needs to be made

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

(34) "That was an interesting report," he said to an irruption of laughter.

How should sentence 34 be changed?

• delete the quotation marks after the comma

• change he to He

• change irruption to eruption

• no change is needed in sentence 34

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What resource should you use to help with spelling and grammar rules on revising and editing passages?

• the teacher

• thesaurus

• dictionary

• a friend