Editing and Revising Middle School

What is the best combination of the two sentences?

• She wanted to go to prom and she never asked for permission.

• She wanted to go to prom; never asked for permission

• She wanted to go to prom but she never asked for permission.

• Although she wanted to go to prom, she never asked for permission.

Which change should be made?
While I ate dinner I watched Regular Show.

• Add a comma after dinner

• Change While to After

• Change Regular to regular

• The sentence is correct.

Which word best enhances the clarity of the sentence below? Sheryl thought it was a bad idea to create a new logo for the stubborn client.

• replace thought with believed

• replace bad with risky

• replace client with customer

• make no change

Which sentence uses commas correctly?

• Since I was absent on Tuesday, I have a lot of make-up work to do. 

• Since, I was absent on Tuesday I have a lot of make-up work to do. 

• Since I was absent, on Tuesday, I have a lot of make-up work to do. 

• Since I was absent on Tuesday, I have a lot, of make-up work to do. 

Which has the correct comma placement?

• Today's date is Wednesday February 22, 2017.

• Today's date is Wednesday, February 22, 2017.

• Today's date is Wednesday, February, 22, 2017.

• Today's date is, Wednesday, February 22, 2017. 

Which of the following sentences below is correct?

• New York City is known for its delicious cuisine, and its famous, world-renowned shows.

• We explored the dark, gloomy house on Halloween, but my brother and his friends were too frightened to come with us.

• When Mrs. Fogle shut the door, all the noise from the hallway stopped, the students were then able to focus.

• Since Adam practiced all summer; he knew he would make the team in the Fall.

Where does the comma go?
Tayanna is a smart studious student.

• Tayanna is a smart, studious student.

• Tayanna is a smart, studious, student.

• Tayanna is a smart studious, student.

To wrap it up, HW is a source of stress and can break family relationships. If HW was gone, kids would have a happier life. Imagine, life without homework. How could the word choice be changed to sound more academic and polished?

• changing kids to children or students

• restating reasons separately

• changing homework to academic work

• adding a comma after "stress"

when you check and fix capitalization, use of complete sentences, punctuation, and spelling mistakes.

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• drafting

• revising

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• publishing

when we use descriptive language to improve our sentences.

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• drafting

• editing

• revising

• publishing