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Fish Cheeks Editing & Revising

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How would you correct the sentence below?

He was not chinese, but as white as mary in the manger.

a)

change manger to manager

b)

Capitalize Chinese and Mary

c)

Change He to he

d)

Change white to White

2.

How would you correct the sentence below?

What would Robert think of our shabby Chinese Christmas.

a)

Change Chinese to chinese

b)

Change Christmas to christmas

c)

Change the . to a ?

d)

Change Robert to robert

3.

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.

a)

Change invited to invented

b)

Change Eve to Ever

c)

Change my to mine

d)

Change cryed to cried.

4.

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."

a)

Change You're to Your

b)

Remove the quotation marks

c)

Change to to two

d)

No change is needed

5.

What change, if any, should be made to the sentence?

Robert and his family waited patiently for platters to be passed to them.

a)

Changing patiently to patent

b)

Changing platters to patter

c)

Change Robert to robert

d)

No change is needed

6.

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.

a)

Change knew to new

b)

Change through to though

c)

Change how to to howl

d)

Change her to here

7.

What change should be made to the sentence?

For christmas eve that year, she had chosen all my favorite foods.

a)

Change For to Four

b)

Change chosen to choose

c)

Change christmas eve to Christmas Eve

d)

Change foods to fruits

8.

What could replace the word underlined below?

The kitchen was littered with appalling mounds of raw food.

a)

disgusting

b)

delicious

c)

delectable

d)

confusing

9.

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.

a)

yawned

b)

yelled

c)

coughed

d)

burped

10.

What change needs to be made to the sentence?

A howl soaking dried fungus back to life.

a)

Change life to lives

b)

Change howl to bowl

c)

Change to to too

d)

Change soaking to soak

11.

What change should be made to the sentence below?

What would he think of our noisy Chinese relatives who lacked proper American manners!

a)

Change noisy to noise

b)

Change ! to ?

c)

Change American to american

d)

Change would to wood

12.

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.

a)

shocked

b)

delighted

c)

furious

d)

frightened

13.

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.

a)

Change meat to meet

b)

Change eye to I

c)

Change Thin to Then

d)

No changes needed

14.

What change need to be made to the sentence?

Dinner through me deeper into despair.

a)

Change Dinner to Diner

b)

Change through to threw

c)

Change despair into depart

d)

Change . to ?

15.

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.

a)

begged

b)

argued

c)

denied

d)

grunted