Editing Practice Quiz

(4) In fact, slime has become so popular that stores like Target and Walgreens have run out of glue.

What change should be made in sentence 4?

• Delete the comma after fact

• Change Walgreens to Walgreen's

• Use an exclamation mark instead of a period

• No change should be made in sentence 4

(1) If you look around classrooms today you're likely to find students doing one thing. (2) Playing with a stretchy, colorful substance known as slime.

What is the correct way to write sentences 1 and 2?

• If you look around classrooms today, you're likely to find students doing one thing: playing with a stretchy, colorful substance known as slime.

• If you look around classrooms today, you're likely to find students doing one thing; they will probably be playing with a stretchy, colorful substance known as slime.

• If you look around classrooms today, you're likely to find students doing on thing. Kids love playing with a stretchy, colorful substance known as slime.

• If you look around classrooms today, you're likely going to find students playing with a stretchy, colorful substance known as slime.

(6) While some kids just make slime for themselves and their friends other students have turned slime-making into a business.

What change should be made in sentence 6?

• Insert so after friends

• Insert a comma after friends

• Change slime-making into Slime-Making

• No change should be made in sentence 6

(9) Some students who enjoy using slime at school da that the stretchy substance helps relieve their stress. (10) They also say it helps them concentrate on their work.

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

• Some students who enjoy using slime at school say that the stretchy substance helps relieve their stress and say it helps concentrate on their work.

• Some students who enjoy using slime at school say that the stretchy substances helps relieve their stress, in addition to saying that it helps them concentrate on their work.

• Some students who enjoy using slime at school say that the stretchy substance helps relieve their stress and concentrate on their work.

• Sentences 9 and 10 should not be changed.

(11) Teachers and Administrators do not always agree, and slime has been banned at many schools for causing a distraction in class.

How should sentence 11 be changed?

• Change Administrators to administrators

• Change and to yet

• Delete the comma after agree

• Sentence 11 should not be changed

(7) By using social media apps like Instagram and Snapchat students are selling slime and charging between $1 and $5 per container.

What change should be made in sentence 7?

• Change Instagram to instagram

• Insert a comma after Snapchat

• Change $1 and $5 to 1$ to 5$

• No change should be made in sentence 7

(3) Kids around the country have been combining contact solution, glue, shaving cream, Borax, food coloring, and Glitter to create it.

How should sentence 3 be changed?

• Change contact solution to Contact Solution

• Delete the comma after glue

• Change Glitter to glitter

• Change Kids to Kid's

(1) If you look around classrooms today you're likely to find students doing one thing.

What change should be made in sentence 1?

• Insert a comma after today

• Change you're to your

• Change one to 1

• No change should be made in sentence 1.

(13) The students eagerly mixed glue, activator and food coloring.

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

• Change students to student's

• Insert a comma after activator

• Delete the comma after glue

• Sentence 13 should not be changed

(15) Laughter filled the room. (16) Students added glitter and beads to their slime.

What is BEST way to combine sentences 15 and 16?

• Laughter filled the room as students added glitter and beads to their slime.

• Laughter filled the room, and students added glitter and beads to their slime.

• Students added glitter and beads to their slime when laughter filled the room.

• Laughter filled the room, so students added glitter and beds to their slime.