Editing and Revising

"I love to read about animals" said Matthew, as he settled down with his new magazine to read. 

• Add a period after animals

• Add a comma after animals

• Change said to Said

• No change is needed

When my Dad handed me the bottle of ketchup, I shook it thoroughly to mix it.

• Change shook to shaked

• Change bottle to bottel

• Change Dad to dad

• The sentence is correct as written

At Mariah's school, there are several book's written in Spanish.

• Change book's to books

• Change Mariah's to Mariahs'

• Change Spanish to spanish

• The sentence is correct

Why did the little puppy dog lick its sore paw.

• Change its to it's

• Change sore to soar

• Change puppy to puppey

• Change the period to a question mark

Why did the little puppy dog lick its sore paw.

• Change its to it's

• Change sore to soar

• Change puppy to puppey

• Change the period to a question mark

Answer explanation

The correct choice is to change the period to a question mark, as the sentence is phrased as a question about the puppy's action. The other options involve incorrect grammar or spelling changes.

What change, if any, should be made?
Grandma and I are bakeing cookies for the carnival.

• Change bakeing to baking

• Change I to me

• Change cookies to cookie's

Answer explanation

The correct change is to fix the spelling of 'bakeing' to 'baking'. 'Baking' is the proper spelling of the verb, while the other options do not address any grammatical or spelling errors in the sentence.

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 1?

• Change the period to a question mark.

• Change had to has

• Change to to too

• Make no change

Answer explanation

The correct choice is to change 'to' to 'too' in sentence 1. 'Too' means 'excessively' in this context, indicating that Tara had an excessive amount of cake, which caused her to feel sick.

The monkey’s swung through the trees. (15) One of them fell on the ground.

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 14?

• Change monkey’s to monkeys

• Change swung to swinged

• Add a comma after swung

• Make no change

Answer explanation

The correct choice is to change 'monkey’s' to 'monkeys' because 'monkey’s' is a possessive form, which is incorrect in this context. The sentence refers to multiple monkeys, so the plural form 'monkeys' is needed.

(9) Annie sang a beautiful high note. (10) The crowd cheering wildly.
What change, if any, should be made in sentence 10?

• Add a comma after cheering

• Change cheering to cheered

• Change the period to a question mark

• Make no change

Answer explanation

In sentence 10, 'The crowd cheering wildly' is a fragment. Changing 'cheering' to 'cheered' corrects it to 'The crowd cheered wildly,' making it a complete sentence that properly follows sentence 9.

What change should be made to the sentence below?

I didn't thought Mr. Torturo could be so cruel.

• change didn't to did'nt

• change cruel to crule

• change be to been

• change thought to think

Answer explanation

The correct change is to replace 'thought' with 'think' because 'didn't' requires the base form of the verb. The sentence should read: 'I didn't think Mr. Torturo could be so cruel.'