STAAR Review Editing

(It's, Its) not beyond repair; all (it's, its) pieces are right here. 

• It's, its

• Its, it's

Choose the sentence that has proper parallel structure.

• Puppies love to eat, to play, and sleep all day.

• Puppies love to eat, to play, and sleeping all day.

• Puppies love eating, playing, and sleeping all day. 

Choose the sentence with correct grammar structure.

• A director made the stuntman think twice about their jump.

• We were overcome with what our team had accomplished. 

• His concience wouldn't allow him to abandon his friends.

• Even with all the victories, she couldn't guarrantee another win.

Choose the sentence with the correct grammar structure.

• The boys began to cheer wildly for the runner the fastest and bravest of them all.

• At any moment he could have another flashback to his days in the marine corps.

• Although hunger was driving me mad, I was to tired to drag myself to the kitchen.

• While racing through the maze was thrilling, he started to realize the danger they were in.

By the end of the first day, the lighthouse was more than 10 feet away from it’s original location.
How should sentence 20 be changed? 

• Change was to is

• Change it’s to its

• Change original to origanal

• Sentence 20 should not be changed.

The current living arrangements is causing me a lot of stress.

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 30? 

• Change arrangements to arangements

• Change is causing to are causing

• Change a lot to alot

• Make no change

I jotted down some notes about the word’s origin along with a couple of example sentences, the rest of the report would be a breeze.

What is the correct way to write sentence 20? 

• I jotted down some notes about the word’s origin along with a couple of example sentences. Sure that the rest of the report would be a breeze.

• I jotted down some notes about the word’s origin. Which along with a couple of example sentences meant that the rest of the report would be a breeze.

• I jotted down some notes about the word’s origin along with a couple of example sentences. The rest of the report would be a breeze.

• The sentence is written correctly in the paper.

What is the correct way to write sentences 9 and 10?

• It connects your brain to your spinal cord, this connects to most of the nerves in your body. 

• Connecting your brain to your spinal cord and then to most of the nerves in your body.

• Connecting your brain to your spinal cord. It connects to most of the nerves in your body.

• It connects your brain to your spinal cord, which connects to most of the nerves in your body. 

Mr. Owens, my Band Director, insists that I practice every night.

How does sentence 15 need to be changed? 

• Change Band Director to band director

• Delete the second comma

• Change insists to insisting 

• Sentence 15 does not need to be changed.

“This, ladies and gentlemen,” Mr. Potter announced as he held up a hat, “Contains all the words on your vocabulary list.”

What change needs to be made in sentence 9? 

• Change ladies to lady’s

• Change announced to announsed

• Delete the comma after hat 

• Change Contains to contains