STAAR Revising and Editing

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 8?

(8) People have come to rely on plastic bags as everything from totes for groceries to trash-can linners to lunch bags.

• Change come to came

• Change groceries to grocery’s

• Change linners to liners

• Make no change

What is the correct way to write sentences 17 and 18?

(17) And because most plastic bags are made of polyethylene, a product derived from crude oil or natural gas. (18) They waste nonrenewable resources.

• And because most plastic bags are made of polyethylene, a product derived from crude oil or natural gas, they waste nonrenewable resources.

• And most plastic bags are made of polyethylene, a product derived from crude oil or natural gas, they waste nonrenewable resources.

• And most plastic bags, which are made of polyethylene derived from crude oil or natural gas, wasting nonrenewable resources.

• The sentences are written correctly in the paper.

What change needs to be made in sentence 21?

(21) And in both 1988 and 1998, plastic bags that were blocking sewers, and drains in Bangladesh contributed to devastating flooding.

• Change were blocking to was blocking

• Delete the comma after sewers

• Change devastating to devestating

• No change needs to be made in this sentence.

What change should be made in sentence 29?

(29) But these bags didn’t come into widespread use until around 1980, and before that time people got along just fine without it.

• Change come to came

• Change use to using

• Delete and

• Change it to them

What change needs to be made in sentence 6?

6) However, thank’s to the idea of one man and the hard work of many volunteers, this situation is changing.

• Change thank’s to thanks

• Change idea to ideal

• Change volunteers to volunteers’

• No change needs to be made

How should sentence 8 be changed?

(8) Him and his family left the war-torn country in the early 1980s, but before leaving, Kayongo saw many of his fellow Ugandans struggling to survive in refugee camps.

• Change Him to He

• Change the comma after leaving to a semicolon

• Change saw to seen

• Change refugee camps to Refugee Camps

What is the correct way to write sentences 15 and 16?

(15) Baffled by the idea of discarding perfectly good soap. (16) Kayongo asked the hotel for an explanation.

• He was baffled by the idea of discarding perfectly good soap, Kayongo asked the hotel for an explanation.

• While baffled by the idea of discarding perfectly good soap. Kayongo asked the hotel for an explanation.

• Baffled by the idea of discarding perfectly good soap, Kayongo asked the hotel for an explanation.

• The sentences are written correctly in the paper

What is the correct way to write sentence 21?

(21) Although Uganda is recovering from years of war, the nation is still plagued by poverty, many workers earn no more than a dollar a day.

• Although Uganda is recovering from years of war, the nation is still plagued by poverty. With many workers earning no more than a dollar a day.

• Although Uganda is recovering from years of war. The nation is still plagued by poverty, and many workers earn no more than a dollar a day

• Although Uganda is recovering from years of war, the nation is still plagued by poverty. Many workers earn no more than a dollar a day.

• The sentence is written correctly in the paper.

What change needs to be made in sentence 24?

(24) This simple question led to the founding of a nonprofit organization the Global Soap Project.

• Insert which after question

• Change led to lead

• Change nonprofit to nonproffit

• Insert a comma after organization

How should sentence 29 be changed?

(29) This inovative program is bringing an important disease-fighting tool to people around the world.

• Change inovative to innovative

• Change is bringing to was bringing

• Insert a comma after tool

• Sentence 29 should not be changed.