Every morning, I wake up at about 7:00 AM. The first thing I do is make my bed and pick out the clothes I’m going to wear. Then, I brush my teeth and take a shower. After my shower, I dry my hair and get dressed.

While oranges and lemons are both citrus fruits that grow on trees, they are different colors and have very different tastes.

The school hallway carried the smell of wax, varnish, and cleaning supplies. Bright,yellow light glared into the hall through the freshly cleaned windows. This highlighted the deep scrapes in the lockers, the chips in the wall tiles, and the spider webs hanging in the corner.

Before editing your writing, the first step should be to revise. Begin by reading each paragraph separately, and then find the topic sentence for each one. Next, make sure all the sentences relate to that topic sentence. Finally, look at how the paragraphs work together. Make sure there are transitional words between each paragraph so your writing flows together smoothly.

Every year, thousands of car accidents occur because of drivers distracted by their phones. Safe drive Corporation developed a product that will disable cell phones inside a car, and many people feel this product will help save lives.

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As for those wires: Rodents love chewing wires (in car engines, too). Their teeth grow constantly, so it's their instinct to gnaw and gnaw those chompers trimmed. "A wire is not that different from a thin branch of twig they might chew on," said Delgado, who added that she'd never heard squirrels have a taste for copper.

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Outages Galore

This week, the Boston Globe reported that a band of squirrel outlaws had repeatedly caused outages of the holiday lights adorning 60 trees on Boston Common. A city official said he had been told the rodents like the taste of copper. A city contractor who maintains the lights referred to the local squirrels as "more and more aggressive." He said his company was turning to a product called "Critter Ridder" to keep the squirrels from killing the city's holiday vibe. The animal repellent is organic, which means it does not contain chemicals.

On Wednesday, the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) revealed that squirrels have also been causing trouble in Toronto. Rodents there have been destroying the lights that cast a glow on a park called Mel Lastman Square. A city council member, John Filion, told the CBC that officials were looking into "squirrel-proof lights" to brighten the park and its ice-skating rink.