Editing and Revising STAAR Review

(1) I was sad to go home from the Christmas party. (2) As we drove up to our house, though, I am excited to see that my dad put up our Christmas lights and wreaths!
What is the best way to REVISE this sentence 2?

• As we drove up to our house, though, I was excited to see that my dad had put up our Christmas lights and wreaths. 

• As we drove up to our house, though, we was excited to see that my dad had put up our Christmas lights and wreaths.

• As we drove up to our house, though, I be excited to see that my dad had put up our Christmas lights and wreaths.

• As we drive up to our house, though, we was excited to see that my dad had put up our Christmas lights and wreaths.

The dessert has hot sand, cactus, and rocks everywhere. 
What change, if any, needs to be made to this sentence?

• delete the comma after cactus

• change everywhere to every  where

• change dessert to desert

• make no change

The teacher was helpfull and showed the student how to work the difficult math problem. 
What change, if any, is needed in the sentence above?

• add a comma before and 

• change helpfull to helpful

• insert a comma after difficult

• no change is needed

20 million people almost visit Disney World each year.
What is the correct way to write the sentence above? 

• 20 million people visit Disney World almost each year. 

• Almost 20 million people visit Disney World each year. 

• 20 million people visit Disney World each year, almost. 

• No change is needed

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

• 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.

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

• ^{Change important to more important}

• Change an to a

• ^{Change monday to Monday}

• The sentence is correct

Why did the little puppy dog lick its sore paw.

• Change its to it's

• Change sore to soar

• Change puppy to puppey

• Change the period to a question mark

(1)One day at school I invited my friend over to spend the night. (2) Next, I ask my football coach if I could have the day off. (3) My friend and I will have a wonderful time. What transition word could BEST be added to the beginning of sentence 3?

• First

• Suddenly

• Lastly

• Once

How can you change hero to a plural noun?

• herois

• heros

• heroes

• heroyes