Eclipse Editing

(5) Our solar neighborhood is form by

eight planets, 140 moons, asteroids, comets, minor planets,

and many other objects.

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

• Change Our to Your

• Change solar to Solar

• Change form to formed

• No change needs to be made.

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CCSS.L.1.2A

CCSS.L.2.2A

CCSS.L.3.2A

CCSS.L.4.2A

CCSS.L.K.2A

3) An easy way to

understand this idea is to think of the Universe as a city; the

Solar System would be their neighborhood and the Earth,

home.

What change, if any, should be made to sentence 3?

• Change the semicolon to a comma

• Change their to your

• Delete the comma after Earth

• No change is needed.

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CCSS.L.9-10.2A

(2) More

mysterious is how rising temperatures will impact

people inland?

What change should be made to sentence 2?

• Delete More

• Change rising to rissing

• Change will to would

• Change the question mark to a period

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CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1C

CCSS.L.K.1D

(4) They are quite long-

lived in fact the longest recorded

lifespan for a captive Echidna is 50

years.

What is the correct way to write sentence 4?

• They are quite long-lived. In fact the longest

  recorded lifespan for a captive Echidna is 50 years.

• They are quite long-lived, in fact, the longest recorded lifespan for a captive Echidna is 50 years.

• They are quite long-lived; in fact, the longest

  recorded lifespan for a captive Echidna is 50 years.

• Sentence 4 is written correctly.

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CCSS.L.9-10.2A

(6) In ancient greek

mythology, there was a monster

called Echidna.

How should sentence 6 be changed?

• Change ancient to anceint

• Change greek to Greek

• Delete the comma after mythology

• No change is needed.

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CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

(1) A very controversial issue in today's society is weather or

not animals have the same rights as humans.

What change, if any, should be made to sentence 1?

• Change today’s to todays

• Change weather to whether

• Insert a comma after animals

• No change is needed.

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CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1C

CCSS.L.K.1D

(5) In an article from BBC news, I learned

that a judge who was handling the court case of two chimps

at a university lab decided that they don't consider animals to

be legal persons, or they don't have the same rights as

humans.

What is the most effective conjunction to

replace or in sentence 5?

• so

• but

• and

• nor

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CCSS.L.1.1G

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.5.1E

2) The inequality between poor and rich

countries has much increased, with wealthier

nations accounting for an increasingly smaller

proportion of deaths overall, according to new

research in JAMA Pediatrics.

What change should be made to sentence 2?

• Insert a comma after poor

• Delete much

• Change increasingly to increase

• No change needs to be made.

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CCSS.L.3.1G

(3) “Childhood and

adolescence are vulnerable periods and a

crucial window for adult health determination”

the authors write.

What change, if any, should be made to sentence 3?

• Delete the quotation marks

• Change are to is

• insert a comma after determination

• No change is needed.

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CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

(1) Fish are aquatic vertebrates, have fins,

gills, and cold blood, few exceptions.

What change, if any, should be made to sentence 1?

• Change are to is

• Change have to has

• Change cold blood to coldblood

• insert with before few

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CCSS.L.3.1E

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D