Sentence Correction Quiz

How can Ariana rewrite sentence 2 to make it more clear?

(2) She is a Spanish professor who teaches Spanish at a college, so we call her Professor Rodriguez because she is a college Spanish teacher

• We call her Professor Rodriguez because she teaches Spanish at a college.

• We call my grandmother Professor Rodriguez and she teaches Spanish because she is a Spanish teacher.

• My grandmother is a Spanish professor who teaches Spanish at a college, so she is called Professor Rodriguez and she teaches Spanish.

• My grandmother is at a college where she teaches at.

What change if any should be made to sentence 4?

(4) Thankfully, we live in the same biggest house as Professor Rodriguez.

• Change Rodriguez to rodriguez

• Change live to lives

• Change biggest to big

• Make no change

The word good in sentence 17 is not precise. Which of the following words should Ariana replace good with? (17) Rodriguez is always saying good things like that.

• silly

• lots of

• some

• wise

What change, if any, is needed in sentence 1?

(1) My silliest moment this year was when I tripped off the stage in a play.

• Change My to Mine

• Change when to win

• Change off to of

• Change in to during

How should sentence 2 be changed?

(2) It was at Christmas when we perform All I want for Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey.

• Remove the italics

• Change perform to performed

• Change Christmas to christmas

• Change was to were

What change is necessary in sentence 4?

(4) Maybe other peoples would be happy, but I thought it was funny.

• Change but to and

• Delete the comma

• Change peoples to people

• Change would to wood

What change should be made in sentence 6?

(6) Mine job was to show Leah how to write a constructed response.

• Change Mine to My

• Change Leah to leah

• Change was to were

• Make no change

How should sentence 9 be written? (9) Perhaps overdid it a lot

• Perhaps, overdid it a lot.

• Perhaps overdid it a lot?

• Perhaps really overdid it.

• Perhaps I overdid it a lot.

What change should be made to sentence 11?

(11) Sadly, just as I swooped around Jose, he finged out his arms.

• Change Saldly to Sad

• Change finged to fung

• Change arms to arm

• Change his to him

What change is needed in sentence 12?

(12) His left hands hit me in the shoulder, throwing me totally off balance, and shoving my hair into my eyes.

• Change hands to hand

• Change me to myself

• Change totally to total

• Change hit to hits