March 7 Revising And Editing

1. What is the correct way to write sentecne 1?

2. What change should be made in sentence 5?

• change egypt to Egypt

• change China to china

• Insert a comma after dams

• Change figures out to figure out

3. What change, if any, should be made in sentence 7?

• change scientist to scientists
• change grows to grew
• change more to most
• change irrrigation to irigation

4. What change should be made in sentence 1?

• change Not to not
• Change animal to animals
• insert a comma after freezing
• change Arctic to arctic

5. What change should be made in sentence 3?

• change cold to coldest
• change Earth to earth
• insert a comma after Alaska
• change extends to extend

6. What change, if any, should be made in sentence 5?

• Chanage long and tall to longest and tallest
• change them to themselves
• change across to acros
• change quick to quickly

7. What is the most effective revision in sentence 6?

8. Bailey wants to use a more desciptive word to replace designed in sentence 7. Which word would be BEST meet Bailey's goal?

• though
• invented
• conceived
• devised

9. Sentence 12 includes repeated information. Which revision MOST improves sentence 12?

10. Bailey left out the following sentence from her third paragraph sentence 15- The main problem was magnetic variation. Where is the BEST place to insert this sentence?

• after sentence 15
• after sentence 16
• after sentence 17
• after sentence 18