Editing/Revising: (2) Whales'Blowholes,poppingkind,swimmingup

What is the correct way to write sentence 3?

• What will the difference?

• What is the difference!

• What is the difference.

• What is the difference?

What change should be made in sentence 10?

• Change it to them

• Change goes to go

• Change Where to When

• Change blowhole to blow hole

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 12?

• Change came to comes

• Delete the comma after opens

• Change closes to closed

• No change is needed.

What change needs to be made in sentence 4?

• Change the to a

• Change that to than

• Change corns to corn

• Change is to are

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 8?

• Change plant to plants

• Change Eventual to Eventually

• Change grows to grew

• Change into to in

What change should be made in sentence 13?

• Change keep to kept

• Change growing to grow

• Change hole to whole

• Make no change.

Which sentence should replace sentence 5 to BEST state the central idea of this paper?

• A. People should know more about Alaska’s salmon.

• B. Fish usually live in freshwater or saltwater.

• C. Going from rivers to the ocean means swimming from fresh water to salt water.

• D. People usually like Alaska’s salmon.

What is the BEST way to combine sentences 9 and 10?

• These eggs are laid in freshwater riverbeds and salmon start out as eggs, very small eggs.

• Very small eggs that these eggs are laid in freshwater riverbeds salmon start out as eggs.

• Salmon start out as eggs, very small eggs these eggs are laid in freshwater riverbeds.

• Salmon start out as very small eggs that are laid in freshwater riverbeds.

How should sentence 15 be revised so that it does not repeat information?

• A. They do not head to the ocean there is a large group of them all of them.

• B. They do not head to the ocean until there is a large group of them.

• C. They head to the ocean until do not there is a large group of them all of them.

• D. They do not head to the ocean all of them until there is a large group of them.

Which supporting detail BEST follows sentence 18?

• During this time they are maturing into adults.

• After they are adults, they continue swimming.

• They keep swimming for years to come.

• When they swim, they swim in groups.