Test Review: Revising/Editing

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 20?

(20) For instance, last semester I got behind on my

assignments, and had to spend every weekend for a month trying to catch back up.

• Delete the comma after assignments

• Change assignments to asignments

• Change got to gotten

• no change is needed

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CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 2?

(2) Three hundred miles isn’t hardly that far, so you would probably expect the island to be home to the same sorts of plants and animals found on the mainland.

• Change hardly to really

• Delete so

• Insert a comma after plants

• No change should be made in this sentence.

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CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.4.1C

What is the best change we can make to this sentence: 

"It's to bad you were late to class," he said, "because I brought candy."

• Change It's to Its
• Change to to too
• Change he to He
• Change because to Because

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

What is the correct way to write sentence 12?

(12) Dan Burcham is an entrepreneur he has made a living out

of creating and running various businesses.

• Dan Burcham is an entrepreneur. Who he has made a living out of creating and running various businesses.

• Dan Burcham, an entrepreneur, has made a living out of creating and running various businesses.

• Dan Burcham is an entrepreneur who has made a living out of creating and running various businesses.

• This sentence does not need to be changed.

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CCSS.L.4.1F

Which transition word is used to reveal a cause/effect relationship?

• Similarly,

• Therefore,

• In conclusion,

• Although...,

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Sentence Combining: Which of these is the correct way to join an independent clause (subject, verb, complete thought) with a dependent clause (subject, verb, incomplete thought)?

• Since I stayed up playing Fortnite I slept through my morning alarm.

• I wanted to go the mall, because I needed to find a gift for my mom.

• He was practicing his soccer drills when it started to rain.

• None of the above

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CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

What is the correct way to write sentence 9?

(9) We walked straight into the kitchen, we crumbled up the

old recipe, tossed it in the trash.

• We walked straight into the kitchen, and we crumbled up the

  old recipe, tossed it in the trash.

• We walked straight into the kitchen, crumbled up the old

  recipe, and tossed it in the trash.

• We walked straight into the kitchen and crumbled up the

  old recipe, tossed it in the trash.

• The sentences are written correctly in the paper.

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CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.7.1B

CCSS.L.9-10.2A

Greg would like to use a more appropriate word in the following sentence.

Designers take advantage of gravity to generate speed on their ride as cars lower these slopes.

Which word should replace lower in this sentence?

• depart

• extend

• descend

• increase

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CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.K.1B

Edit this: "I want pizza," she says.

• "I want pizza," she claims.

• "I want pizza," she shouts.

• "I want pizza," she said.

• "I want pizza," she explains.

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CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.6.3A

Which punctuation mark goes around dialogue?

• ,Commas,

• "Quotation Marks"

• 'Apostrophes'

• ;Semi-Colons;

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CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D