Editing Final Exam Review

What change should be made in the sentence?
It didn't seem like such a small amount would be enough to make a pancake but I soon realized just how much the batter spreads out.

• Change didn't to did'nt
• Insert a comma after pancake
• Change spreads out to spread out
• No changes

What change needs to be made in the sentence?
I learned that cooking takes more patience and attention to detail then I had ever dreamed!

• Change that to this
• Change takes to take
• Insert a comma after patience
• Change then to than

"Make sure you don't leave any lumps," Dad instructed while I stired the mixture.

What change should be made in the sentence above?

• Change the comma after lumps to a period

• Change instructed to instructing

• Change stired to stirred

• No change should be made

Choose the sentence that is written correctly.

• We went to their house because there hosting a party.
• They're having a party at there house this weekend.
• We went to their house because they're hosting a party.
• There having a party at their house this weekend.

If they were in the same room, all of there things could be in one place.

What change should be made?

• Change they to we

• Delete the comma

• Change there to their

• No change needed

By the end of the first day, the lighthouse was more than 10 feet away from it’s original location.

How should the sentence be changed?

• Change was to is

• Change it's to its

• Change original to origanal

• The sentence should not be changed.

The current living arrangements is causing me a lot of stress.

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

• Change arrangements to arangements

• Change is causing to are causing

• Change a lot to alot

• Make no change

Mr. Owens, my Band Director, insists that I practice every night.

How does the sentence need to be changed?

• Change Band Director to band director

• Delete the second comma

• Change insists to insisting

• The sentence does not need to be changed.

COMMAS

Where should a comma be added in the following sentence:

Having finished the test Richard breathed a sigh of relief.

• after finished

• after breathed

• after sigh

• after test

PUNCTUATION

What needs to be added to the following sentence?

“I call front seat!” said Horace to Beatrice. “Haha. You have to ride in the back. He closed the passenger car door.

• add a comma after Horace

• add a quotation mark after door

• add a apostrophe after Beatrice

• add a quotation mark after back