Editing and Revising Sentences Practice

Using the excerpt "Is It Right for People"

What change should be made to sentence 1?

• Insert a comma after society

• Change challenge to challenged

• Change then to than

• Delete more

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1G

Using excerpt from "Is it Right for People...."

How should sentence 3 be changed?

• Change childs to child's

• Insert a comma after traits

• Change traits to trait

• No change needed

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.2.2C

CCSS.L.3.2D

Why should child's have an apostorphe?

• Child should be changed 's because is it needs to be plural

• 's shows possession because child is referring what traits a child has

• It is a from of contraction. It is saying the child is

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.2.2C

CCSS.L.3.2D

Use excerpt from "How does Technology Affect...."

How should sentence 1 be changed?

• Change pieces to peices

• Delete the comma after literature

• change itself to its self

• change their to our

Tags

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

Use excerpt from "Size-ism in Female Athletes"

What change, if any needs to be made in sentence 1?

• change was to were

• change were to was

• delete the second set of quotation marks

• no change needed

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

Use "Size-ism in female athletes"

What change should be made in sentence 9?

• Change you to I

• Change societel to societal

• Delete the comma after athletes

• Change is to was

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

Use excerpt from "Lessons from the NBA on Life...."

What change is needed in sentence 6?

• Change knicks to Knicks

• Change acknowledged to acknowledge

• change meddling to medling

• Delete the comma after NBA

Tags

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

Use Excerpt from "Lesson from the NBA..."

Why do you not need to delete the comma after NBA in sentence 6?

• the comma is needed because there is s sentence after the comma. Commas are always used to separate sentences.

• The comma is needed because we are talking about a person. It is called an appositive.

• The comma is needed because the phrase after the comma is extra information and is used as the to describe the owner

• The comma is needed because it provides a transition to the next sentence.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

Use the passage Genetic Engineering

What is the most effective way to combine sentences 13 and 14?

• Answer A

• Answer B

• Answer C

• Answer D

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.7.1B

CCSS.L.9-10.2A

Use Genetic Engineering

In question 1, why wouldn't you want to choose Answer A?

• It is a grammatically incorrect sentence

• It leaves out a detail related to genetic engineering

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1F