STAAR Edit and Revise Review

What change should be made in sentence 3?

• Change rise to raise

• Change cities to cityes

• insert a comma after supplies

• no change is needed

What change should be made in sentence 5?

• Change Bessemer's to Bessemers

• Change invention to invension

• Change rely to relied

• Change iron to Iron

What change should be made in sentence 7?

• Change permanently to perminaently

• Change changed to changes

• Change large to largest

• Change pittsburg to Pittsburg

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 3?

• Change violin to Violin

• Insert a comma after boring

• Change disagree to disagreeing

• No change is needed

Should you read passages that tell you to make "edits" or "corrections?"

• Yes. There may be questions about the main idea of the text.

• Yes. It is fun to read them.

• No. These passages are not required to correctly answer editing questions.

• No. It will be boring.

On the revising/editing section, I should...

• Only read the sentence mentioned in the question

• Forget everything I learned about grammar and guess

• Choose C

• make the changes in the text and look for the correct answer

What is the BEST revision to make in this sentence?

• I was also nervous, I was worrying about poisonous snakes.

• I was nervous, too also, but I was worrying about poisonous snakes.

• I was nervous, too, but I was worrying about poisonous snakes.

• I was nervous and was also worrying about poisonous snakes, too.

What change should be made in sentence 31?

• Change We to Because we

• Insert a comma after surprised

• Change became to become

• Sentence 31 should not be changed.

After I have written my paper, I should

• revise and edit

• turn in my test

• raise my hand and ask the teacher to look over it

• none of the above

“I go to the same middle school as Anastasia.”

• Change the to that

• change go to goes

• change middle school to Middle School

• No change needed