3.4 Revising/Editing

1. How does sentence 2 need to be changed?

• A
  Change often to offen

• B

  Change about to on

• C

  Insert a comma after hand

• D

  Sentence 2 does not need to be changed.

2. How does sentence 6 need to be changed?

• A

  Insert an open quotation mark before We

• B

  Change toughness to tuffness

• C

  Insert a comma after mind

• D

  Change tender to tenderness

3. What is the correct way to combine sentences 7 and 8?

• A

  Because doves are among the few animals that mate for life, artists from the Victorian period until the present include doves on Valentine's Day greeting cards.

• B

  Doves are among the few animals that mate for life because artists from the Victorian period until the present include doves on Valentine's Day greeting cards.

• C

  Doves are among the few animals that mate for life, and artists from the Victorian period until the present include doves on Valentine's Day greeting cards.

• D

  Artists from the Victorian period until the present include doves on Valentine's Day greeting cards, if doves are among the few animals that mate for life.

4. What change should be made in sentence 9?

• A

  Insert a comma after this

• B

  Change card to Card

• C

  Change soar to sore

• D

  Insert a closing quotation mark after flight

1. What change should be made in sentence 6?

• A

  Change on the bench to in the bench

• B

  Insert a comma after mom

• C

  Change slowly to more slowly

• D

  Change forth to fourth

2. What change should be made in sentence 10?

• A

  Change trying to tryying

• B

  Insert a comma after hard

• C

  Change everything to every thing

• D

  Delete the comma after click

3. What change should be made in sentence 13?

• A

  Change Maybe to Maybee

• B

  Insert a comma after when

• C

  Change about to abowt

• D

  Insert a quotation mark after the period