Editing Practice

"Will you pass the potatoes, please" Maggie asked.

• Change pass to past

• Change potatoes to potatos

• Insert a question mark after please

• No change is needed

Clean your room, then we'll go outside and play catch.

• Change your to you're

• Change then to than

• Insert and before then

• No change is needed

What is the correct way to write sentence 13?

• I wanted to take it off my dad. Who kept telling me that I would get used to it.

• I wanted to take it off, and my dad kept telling me. That I would get used to it.

• I wanted to take it off, but my dad kept telling me that I would get used to it.

• The sentence is written correctly in the paper.

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 4?

• Delete the comma

• Change that to it

• Change grabed to grabbed

• No change should be made.

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 13?

• Change are to our

• Change brought to brung

• Change Grinning to Grining

• No change should be made in sentence 13.

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 24?

• Sentence 24 should not be changed.

• Delete the comma after Mom

• Change me to I

• Change looked to looking

How should sentence 28 be changed?

• Change your to you’re

• Change attention to atention

• Change ingredients to ingredient’s

• Sentence 28 should not be changed.

What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 30?

• Change This to Which

• Change save to safe

• Change later to latter

• No change needs to be made in sentence 30.

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 33?

• Insert a comma after planned

• Delete but

• Change she knew to they knew

• No change should be made in sentence 33.

What is the correct way to write sentences 35 and 36?

• Besides, I don’t think we would have laughed nearly as hard if our cookies had been just perfect.

• Besides, I don’t think. That we would have laughed nearly as hard if our cookies had been just perfect.

• Besides, I don’t think that we would have. Laughed nearly as hard if our cookies had been just perfect.

• Sentences 35 and 36 are written correctly in the story.