Have I Made a Mistake? Editing

Have I Made a Mistake? Editing

10th Grade

9 Qs

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Have I Made a Mistake? Editing

Have I Made a Mistake? Editing

Assessment

Quiz

English

10th Grade

Hard

Created by

Margaret Anderson

FREE Resource

9 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

Change “being” to “I am”

Insert a comma after childhood

Change plays to playing

Sentence 2 should not be changed.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

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What is the correct way to write sentence 5?

I pull gently at its crisp brown shell, the aroma of its gooey sweetness that teases my nostrils.

As I pull gently at its crisp brown shell, the aroma of its gooey sweetness teases my nostrils.

Pulling gently at its crisp brown shell, the aroma of its gooey sweetness teasing my nostrils.

When I pull gently at its crisp brown shell, and the aroma of its gooey sweetness teasing my nostrils.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

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How should sentence be changed?

Insert comma after grass

Change reminds to reminding

Change playing to play

Change Soccer to soccer

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

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What change, if any, is needed in sentence 18?

Insert a comma after way

Change processed to has processed

Change centers' to centers

Sentence 18 should not be changed

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

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What change, if any, needs to be made to sentence 20?

Delete the comma

Insert a comma after today

Change innocent to inocent

Make no change to sentence 20

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

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

Change Organization to organization

Change the colon to a comma

change species to species'

No change is needed in sentence 1

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

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What change, if any, should be made to sentence 11?

Delete since

change accustomed to acustomed

change to trying to to try

no change is needed in this sentence

8.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

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What change, if any, should be made to sentence 14?

change Doing to When we do

delete the comma after though

change preferances to preferences

change simply to simple

9.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

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What change, if any, should be made to sentence 18?

change whose to who's

change brought to bringing

delete the comma after try

no change is needed in sentence 18