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WorksheetsFish Cheeks Editing & Revising
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 30mins
How would you correct the sentence below?
He was not chinese, but as white as mary in the manger.
change manger to manager
Capitalize Chinese and Mary
Change He to he
Change white to White
How would you correct the sentence below?
What would Robert think of our shabby Chinese Christmas.
Change Chinese to chinese
Change Christmas to christmas
Change the . to a ?
Change Robert to robert
What change should be made to the sentence?
When I found out that my parents had invited the minister's family over for Christmas Eve dinner, I cryed.
Change invited to invented
Change Eve to Ever
Change my to mine
Change cryed to cried.
What change, if any, should be made in the sentence?
"You must be proud you are different. You're only shame is to have shame."
Change You're to Your
Remove the quotation marks
Change to to two
No change is needed
What change, if any, should be made to the sentence?
Robert and his family waited patiently for platters to be passed to them.
Changing patiently to patent
Changing platters to patter
Change Robert to robert
No change is needed
What change should be made to the sentence?
And even through I didn't agree with her then, I knew that she understood how much I had suffered during the evening's dinner.
Change knew to new
Change through to though
Change how to to howl
Change her to here
What change should be made to the sentence?
For christmas eve that year, she had chosen all my favorite foods.
Change For to Four
Change chosen to choose
Change christmas eve to Christmas Eve
Change foods to fruits
What could replace the word underlined below?
The kitchen was littered with appalling mounds of raw food.
disgusting
delicious
delectable
confusing
What could replace the underlined word below and it have the same meaning?
At the end of the meal my father leaned back and belched loudly, thanking my mother for her fine cooking.
yawned
yelled
coughed
burped
What change needs to be made to the sentence?
A howl soaking dried fungus back to life.
Change life to lives
Change howl to bowl
Change to to too
Change soaking to soak
What change should be made to the sentence below?
What would he think of our noisy Chinese relatives who lacked proper American manners!
Change noisy to noise
Change ! to ?
Change American to american
Change would to wood
What could replace the underlined word below and keep the same meaning?
"It's a polite Chinese custom to show you are satisfied," explained my father to our astonished guests.
shocked
delighted
furious
frightened
What change, if any, needs to be made to the sentence?
Thin my father poked his chopsticks just below the fish eye and plucked out the soft meat.
Change meat to meet
Change eye to I
Change Thin to Then
No changes needed
What change need to be made to the sentence?
Dinner through me deeper into despair.
Change Dinner to Diner
Change through to threw
Change despair into depart
Change . to ?
What could replace the underlined word below and keep its meaning?
A slimy rock cod with bulging eyes that pleaded not to be thrown into a pan of hot oil.
begged
argued
denied
grunted
