STAAR Editing & Revising - Set 4 - Would you like some...

What is your name?

What Class period is this?

#1 - What change needs to be made in sentence 15?

• A - Change does to did
• B - Change an to a
• C - Change the period to a question mark
• D - No change needs to be made.

#2 - How should sentence 6 be changed?

• F - Change confedent to confident
• G - Delete the comma after period
• H - Change fellow to felow
• J - Sentence 6 should not be changed.

#3 - How should sentence 17 be changed?

• A - Insert a comma after past
• B - Change was to were
• C - Delete more
• D - Sentence 17 should not be changed.

#4 - What change needs to be made in sentence 3?

• F - Change Dozens to Dozen
• G - Change U.S. to US
• H - Change has to have
• J - Delete the dashes

#5 - What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 2?

• A - Change There to Their
• B - Change Romaine to romaine
• C - Change salad to salads
• D - No change needs to be made in this sentence.

#6 - What is the correct way to write sentences 18 and 19?

• F - But now, produce is often shipped ready-to-eat in closed bags and containers; which essentially double as inescapable terrariums.
• G - But now, produce is often shipped ready-to-eat in closed bags and containers – which essentially double as inescapable terrariums.
• H - But now, produce is often shipped ready-to-eat in closed bags and containers which essentially double as inescapable terrariums.
• J - The sentences are written correctly in the passage.

#7 - What change needs to be made in sentence 14?

• A - Change they to he
• B - Delete the comma after chain
• C - Change purchase to purcase
• D - No change needs to be made.

#8 - What is the correct way to write sentence 7?

• F - Because there’s no central database for reports of wildlife found in produce. Hughes and his research team set out to gather that data themselves based on news coverage.
• G - Because there’s no central database for reports of wildlife found in produce. Hughes and his research team set out to gather that data themselves, based on news coverage.
• H - Because there’s no central database for reports of wildlife found in produce Hughes and his research team set out to gather that data themselves, based on news coverage.
• J - Because there’s no central database for reports of wildlife found in produce, Hughes and his research team set out to gather that data themselves, based on news coverage.