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Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 1hrs 20mins
As I watched friends find dates for homecoming, I was initially a little discouraged. Because it looked as though my first homecoming dance would be missing a key character.
As I watched friends find dates for homecoming, I was initially a little discouraged. It looked as though my first homecoming dance would be missing a key character.
As I watched friends find dates for homecoming. I was initially a little discouraged because it looked as though my first homecoming dance would be missing a key character.
Sentence 4 is written correctly.
(8) So several of my dateless friends and me banded together and decided to go as a big group.
Change me to I
Insert a comma after together
Change decided to decide
No change should be made.
(18) I didn’t have to stick with one specific person, I was free to mingle and dance with anyone I wanted to!
Change one specific to no specific
Change the comma to a semicolon
Insert a comma after mingle
Make no change
The 11-year-old also began writing a diary it detailed what was happening in her region of Pakistan.
The 11-year-old also began writing a diary. With details about what was happening in her region of Pakistan.
The 11-year-old also began writing a diary that detailed what was happening in her region of Pakistan.
The sentences are written correctly in the paper.
(21) She wanted to help right societies wrongs, especially the denial of a woman’s right to an education.
Change societies to society's
Delete the comma
Change woman's to womans'
No change should be made in sentence 21.
What is the most effective way to combine sentences 12 and 13?
(12) Amy Cuddy did a study on how “power poses” affect people. (13) She is a social psychologist at Harvard University.
What is the most effective way to combine sentences 12 and 13?
Amy Cuddy did a study on how “power poses” affect people she is a social psychologist at Harvard University.
Amy Cuddy did a study on how “power poses” affect people, a social psychologist at Harvard University.
Amy Cuddy, a social psychologist at Harvard University, did a study on how “power poses” affect people.
Amy Cuddy did a study, at Harvard University and with a social psychologist, on how “power poses” affect people.
She found that the people had an increase in the hormone associated with dominance and a decrease in the hormone associated with stress who were holding their body in a position of power.
She found that the people holding their body in a position of power had an increase in the hormone associated with dominance, the hormone associated with stress was decreased.
She found that while the people were holding their body in a position of power, the hormones associated with dominance and stress were increased and decreased.
She found that the people holding their body in a position of power had an increase in the hormone associated with dominance and a decrease in the hormone associated with stress.
(2) It just comes with the territory, especially when you have an older brother, who is the epitome of “cool.”
Change comes to come’s
Change especially to specially
Delete the comma after brother
No change should be made.
(5) I probably would have continued trying to keep up with “Big T” for the rest of my high school career, but when my family moved in the middle of my Freshman year, everything changed.
Delete but
Change Freshman to freshman
Delete the comma after year
No change needs to be made in sentence 5.
(12) I had always been fascinated with chemistry, biology, and math, but since those interests hadn’t fit Tyson’s definition of cool, I had never pursued it.
Change fascinated to fasinated
Delete the comma after cool
Change had never pursued to hadn’t never pursued
Change it to them
What is the correct way to write sentence 24?
(24) Yes, I’m Tyson’s little brother, but that’s only part of my identity, I’m a cool guy in my own way, too.
What is the correct way to write sentence 24?
(24) Yes, I’m Tyson’s little brother, but that’s only part of my identity, I’m a cool guy in my own way, too.
Yes, I’m Tyson’s little brother, that’s only part of my identity, though, I’m a cool guy in my own way, too.
Yes, I’m Tyson’s little brother, but that’s only part of my identity. Because I’m a cool guy in my own way, too.
Yes, I’m Tyson’s little brother, but that’s only part of my identity. I’m a cool guy in my own way, too.
Sentence 24 is written correctly in the paper.
(26) The lady was good, but it wasn’t her skill that got my attention, it was her age.
Delete but
Change her skill to no skill
Change my to our
Change the comma after attention to a semicolon
What is the correct way to write sentence 45?
(45) It turned out this lady with the pink bowling bag was the Bessie Richards, she was a recording artist of the 1960s.
What is the correct way to write sentence 45?
(45) It turned out this lady with the pink bowling bag was the Bessie Richards, she was a recording artist of the 1960s.
It turned out this lady with the pink bowling bag was the Bessie Richards. Who was a recording artist of the 1960s.
It turned out this lady with the pink bowling bag was the Bessie Richards. A recording artist of the 1960s.
It turned out this lady with the pink bowling bag. She was the Bessie Richards, a recording artist of the 1960s.
It turned out this lady with the pink bowling bag was the Bessie Richards, a recording artist of the 1960s.
