Editing

Last summer, my family and I camped by the Mississippi river.

• 
  change family to Family

• change I to me

• change river to River

• The sentence is correct.

Mom surprised us all when she declared, "let's all go get pizza!"

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  Delete the quotation marks

• Change let's to Let's

• Remove the comma after declared

• The sentence is correct.

Joseph said he knew his uncles had thrown a party for theirselves.

• Change knew to new

• Change thrown to threw

• Change theirselves to themselves

• No change is needed.

Natalies' flower was the most beautiful I had ever seen.

• Change most beautiful to more beautiful

• ^{Change Natalies' to Natalies's}

• Change flower to flour

• No change is needed

Tags

CCSS.L.7.3A

CCSS.W.7.4

Mrs. Watson said that our class would go on a field trip on March, 2 2015.

• Delete the comma after March and insert it after 2

• Add quotatiion marks before our and after 2015.

• Delete the comma after March

• The sentence is correct.

The Pledge of Allegiance is an important part of our monday morning assembly.

• ^{Change important to more important}

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  ^{Change monday to  Monday}

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  Change an to a

• The sentence is correct

Tags

CCSS.L.7.3A

CCSS.W.7.4

"I love to read about animals" said Matthew, as he settled down with his new magazine to read. 

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  Add a period after animals

• Add a comma after animals

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  Change said to  Said

• No change is needed

Tags

CCSS.L.7.2B

Quickly I headed for the kitchen. Mom was making my favorite dinner in the kitchen.

• Quickly I headed for the kitchen, Mom was making my favorite dinner.

• I headed quickly to the kitchen because Mom was making my favorite dinner.

• I headed quickly to the kitchen and Mom was making my favorite dinner.

• Quickly I headed to the kitchen, then Mom was making my favorite dinner.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1B

CCSS.W.7.3C

CCSS.W.7.4

When my Dad handed me the bottle of ketchup, I shook it thoroughly to mix it.

• Change shook to shaked

• Change bottle to bottel

• Change Dad to dad

• The sentence is correct as written

At Mariah's school, there are several book's written in Spanish.

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  Change book's to books

• Change Mariah's to Mariahs'

• Change Spanish to spanish

• The sentence is correct

Tags

CCSS.L.7.3A