Unit 8 Editing & Revising Retest

What change should be made in sentence 2?

• Change Chef Luciano to chef Luciano

• Change toss to tosses

• Delete the semicolon after dough

• Insert a comma after it

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 4?

• Change Otherwise to Unfortunately

• Change didn't realize to doesn't realize

• Change difficult to dificult

• No change is needed

What change should be made in sentence 8?

• Delete the quotation marks

• Change going to having gone

• Change Tony's pizzeria to Tony's Pizzeria

• Change with a grin to over a grin

What change should be made in sentence 2?

• Change opportunity to oppertunity

• Change touch to touching

• Change moon to Moon

• Change the period to a question mark

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 5?

• Change have talked to has talked

• Change their to our

• Insert a comma after vacation

• No change is needed

What change should be made in sentence 8?

• Change website to Website

• Change tourist to tourist's

• Change distination to destination

• Change read to have read

Which sentence should replace sentence 5 to provide a more effective claim at the end of the introductory paragraph?

• Learning and practicing self-defense can help improve your physical fitness, mental focus, self-discipline, and social skills.

• You might find that learning and practicing self-defense is more fun and rewarding than spending time using electronic devices.

• Health experts would probably agree that learning and practicing self-defense is a great way to get in shape and learn new skills.

• When you are learning and practicing self-defense, an hour a day does not seem like a lot of time to spend exercising.

Rose wants to add another detail to help support the ideas in the second paragraph (sentences 6–11). Which sentence should replace sentence 10 to accomplish this goal?

• There were very few kids my age who attend karate daily.

• My parents were happy that I made so many friends in karate class.

• I did not realize kids my age could earn such high ranks in a martial-arts class.

• I have become stronger, faster, and better coordinated than I was when I first started.

Which transition is the BEST transition to add at the beginning of sentence 16?

• Additionally

• As a result

• Later

• In other words

What is the BEST way to revise sentence 18 to make the meaning more clear?

• The people that become better at self-discipline, they train in martial arts longer.

• The people that train in martial arts become better at self-discipline longer.

• The longer people train, they become better at self-discipline in martial arts.

• The longer people train in martial arts, the better they become at self-discipline.