Answer to Revising Editing Grammar

"What do I do first," I asked eagerly.
What change, if any, should be made in the sentence?

• Change the comma to a question mark
• Delete the quotation marks after the comma
• Change eagerly to eager
• Make no changes

"Make sure you don't leave any lumps," Dad instructed while I stired the mixture.
What change should be made in sentence 13? 

• Change the comma after lumps to a period
• Change instructed to instrcuting
• Change stired to stirred
• No change should be made

Which answer shows the correct way to write the sentence?

• Otherwise, the pancakes would stick to the the surface. And have a big mess to clean up.
• Otherwise, the pancakes would stick to the surface then we would have a big mess to clean up.
• Otherwise, the pancakes would stick to the surface, and we would have a big mess to clean up.
• Otherwise, the pancakes would stick to the surface, we would have a big mess to clean up then.

What change should be made in the sentence?
It didn't seem like such a small amount would be enough to make a pancake but I soon realized just how much the batter spreads out.

• Change didn't to did'nt
• Insert a comma after pancake
• Change spreads out to spread out
• No changes

My father was very clear about how long to wait. Before trying to flip the pancakes over.
What is the correct way to write these two sentences?

• My father was very clear about this.  How long to wait before trying to flip the pancakes over.
• My father was very clear.  About how long to wait before trying to flip the pancakes over.
• My father was very clear anout this he told me how long to wait beofre trying to flip the pancakes over.
• My father was very clear about how long to wait before trying to flip the pancakes over.

What change should be made to this sentence?
While I scraped my impatience off the griddle, Dad showed me what he meant by "solid bubbles" and then taught me how to flip the pancakes correct.

• Change scraped to scrapped
• Insert a comma after bubbles
• Change taught to teached
• Change correct to correctly

What change needs to be made in the sentence?
I learned that cooking takes more patience and attention to detail then I had ever dreamed!

• Change that to this
• Change takes to take
• Insert a comma after patience
• Change then to than

Which of the following sentences is correctly punctuated?

• In the middle of night. The van pulled up.
• Chuck would not, give Jane the seat.
• Over coffee and toast, Kelly told me about her new job.
• Lemonade. My favorite drink.

The following sentence pair should be combined to make a better sentence. Which is the best revision? 
The bicycle tire is flat. The bicycle tire is on the bike. 

• The bicycle tire is on the bike and the bicycle tire is flat.
• The flat bicycle tire is on the bike.
• On the bike, the bicycle tire there is flat.
• The tire on the bicycle is flat.

What change, if any, should be made to the sentence?
Its going to rain today.

• change . to !
• change rain to raining
• change Its to It's
• No change needed