WorksheetsRevising and Editing Practice
Total questions: 100
Worksheet time: 2hrs 45mins
(5) Schools’ attendance lines are drawn around subdivisions.
(6) So students tend to attend school with other students of similar economic backgrounds.
What is the most effective way to combine sentences 5 and 6?
Since the schools’ attendance lines are drawn around subdivisions, students tend to attend school with other students of similar economic backgrounds.
Schools’ attendance lines are drawn around subdivisions, students tend to attend school with other students of similar economic backgrounds.
Drawing attending lines around subdivisions and student are attending school with those of similar economic backgrounds.
Schools’ attendance lines are drawn around subdivisions and students tend to attend school with other students of similar economic backgrounds.
Choose the correct sentence
Some penguins would try to groom themselves because they swallowed the toxic oil and died.
Attempting to groom themselves were some penguins, who swallowed the toxic oil and died.
While attempting to groom themselves, some penguins swallowed the toxic oil and died.
Some penguins would try to groom themselves, they swallowed the toxic oil and died.
Choose the correct sentence
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 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 sentence are written correctly in the paper.
Choose the correct sentence.
For the rest of the day, neither of us spoke, and it was obvious. That she was no happier about the arrangements than I was.
For the rest of the day, neither of us spoke it was obvious that she was no happier about the arrangements than I was.
For the rest of the day, neither of us spoke. Which made it obvious that she was no happier about the arrangement than I was.
For the rest of the day, neither of us spoke. It was obvious that she was no happier about the arrangements than I was.
What is the main idea?
Which of these is the correct way to join two sentences:
After a few more questions and a breif pause, the quiz continued.
____ important to the robot to repair ____ circuits.
"It's to bad you were late to class," he said, "because I brought candy."
After I went to the store I went shoe shopping with my friends.
"First you do your homework, than you can play on your phone," the exasperated mother replied.
What is the most effective revision to make?
What is the most effective revision to make?
The championship games continued ___________ the bad weather.
What is the most effective way to combine the 2 sentences?
What change needs to be made in the sentence?
What change needs to be made in the sentence?
Which two sentences are written incorrectly?
(Revising: Many times there are two choices that have a grammatic error. If you can find these, then you can better your chance at choosing the correct answer.)
My friends and I always love to sing together; we harmonize so well.
My friends and I always love to sing together, we harmonize so well.
My friends and I always love to sing together, because we harmonize so well.
My friends and I always love to sing together, for we harmonize so well together.
Which two sentences are written incorrectly?
(Revising: Many times there are two choices that have a grammatic error. If you can find these, then you can better your chance at choosing the correct answer.)
We can't always be right and someone has to take the blame.
We can't always be right; so someone has to take the blame.
We can't always be right; someone has to take the blame.
We can't always be right, so someone has to take the blame.
Which two sentences are written incorrectly?
(Revising: Many times there are two choices that have a grammatic error. If you can find these, then you can better your chance at choosing the correct answer.)
Without our moon, our planet would be unstable and wobble on it's axis.
Without our moon, our planet would become unstable and it would mess up our seasons.
Our seasons would become erratic without our moon, so it's very important to our lives.
The moon is more than just a pretty globe in the night sky; it is important to our seasons, tides, and crop production.
Which two sentences are written incorrectly?
(Revising: Many times there are two choices that have a grammatic error. If you can find these, then you can better your chance at choosing the correct answer.)
Violent video games are becoming more popular, but they are far from a new concept; violent games have been part of human culture for thousands of years.
Thousands of years of human evolution boils down to our need to survive and to survive in the real world, you have to be violent sometimes.
We cannot blame video games on violence in the world, people have been violent creatures since the beginning. We aren't much different than when we lived in caves.
Violence is part of human nature; we love to watch it, participate in it, and even compete in it.
Which two sentences are written incorrectly?
(Revising: Many times there are two choices that have a grammatic error. If you can find these, then you can better your chance at choosing the correct answer.)
Houston is the best city in Texas: we have so much to do every weekend.
Living in Houston can really be great since it seems like there is a festival, a show, or a trail you can go to every weekend.
There is so much to do in Houston; so if you visit, you should be sure to plan for lots to do.
There are many things you can do in Houston on the weekends: museums, festivals, parks, free shows, and shopping.
How would you fix the following sentence?
Whenever we go to the movies I always have to have popcorn.
add a semicolon after movies
add a comma after movies
delete the second "have" before popcorn
No change needed
What change if any needs to be made to the following sentence?
My cat Ollie a Norwegian Forest Cat, loves to try get into my cereal bowl when I'm not looking.
Add a comma after Ollie
Lowercase the word Cat
Add a comma after bowl
No change needed
What is the best way to correct the following sentence?
My neighbors roosters like to crow all day long, and it drives me crazy.
Delete the comma after long
Change roosters to roosters'
Change drives to driven
No change needed
What change if any needs to be made to the following sentence?
The game Super Mario Brothers have been around for a long time; it is now thirty-five years old.
Change the semicolon to a colon
Change thirty-five to thirty five
Change have to has
No change needed
What is the best way to correct the following sentence?
Although the internet is truly amazing we've become spoiled; when it runs a little bit slow, we get so aggravated.
Remove the comma after slow
Change the semicolon after spoiled to a comma
Add a comma after amazing
No change needed
She went to work, ______ she did not want to go.
Which FANBOYS is the best to use to complete theses two sentences?
and
or
but
so
It is raining outside, ________ we should stay inside.
Which FANBOYS is the best to use to complete theses two sentences?
for
and
but
so
John does (a) miss a day of work, (b) does he miss time with family.
Dominique loves hiking in the mountains, (a) she is moving to Colorado.
(16) Julian stood over his aunt’s stove, staring at the side of a box and had a struggle to decipher the precise order of operations required to make macaroni and cheese.
What revision, if any, is needed in sentence 16?
Julian stood over his aunt’s stove, staring at the side of a box and struggling to decipher the precise order of operations required to make macaroni and cheese.
Julian stood over his aunt’s stove, staring at the side of a box that struggled to decipher the precise order of operations to make macaroni and cheese and the requirements.
Julian stood over his aunt’s stove, staring and struggling to decipher the precise order of operations that were required to make macaroni and cheese on the side of a box.
No change is needed.
6) My own sister attends one of the elementary schools that feeds into our high school. (7) She is having a hard time in math.
My own sister is having a hard time in math attending one of the elementary schools that feeds into our high school.
My own sister attends one of the elementary schools that feeds into our high school although she is having a hard time in math.
My own sister, who attends one of the elementary schools that feeds into our high school, is having a hard time in math.
My own sister attends one of the elementary schools that feeds into our high school, she is having a hard time in math.
(4) Clearly, having a pet is benefitial and can provide people with a healthier and happier life.
What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 4?
Change benefitial to beneficial
Insert a comma after people
Change healthier to healthiest
No change is needed in sentence 4
(9) People feel safe when confiding in their pets, without being judgmental, a pet will often sit compassionately by its owner’s side for as long as is needed.
What is the correct way to write sentence 9?
People feel safe when confiding in their pets; without being judgmental. A pet will often sit compassionately by its owner’s side for as long as is needed.
People feel safe when confiding in their pets, without being judgmental; a pet will often sit compassionately by its owner’s side for as long as is needed.
People feel safe when confiding in their pets. Without being judgmental, a pet will often sit compassionately; by its owner’s side, for as long as is needed.
People feel safe when confiding in their pets; without being judgmental, a pet will often sit compassionately by its owner’s side for as long as is needed.
(26) Small dogs that need minimal space are more appropriate, for people who have a small home or yard.
What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 26?
Change minimal to minamal
Change are to were
Delete the comma after appropriate
No change is necessary.
(10) Unfortunately, her limited funds have run out after only one year, and she was forced to return home.
What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 10?
Change have run to ran
Delete the comma after year
Change was forced to is forced
Make no change
What change if any needs to be made to the following sentence?
My cat Ollie a Norwegian Forest Cat, loves to try get into my cereal bowl when I'm not looking.
Add a comma after Ollie
Lowercase the word Cat
Add a comma after bowl
No change needed
"It's to bad you were late to class," he said, "because I brought candy."
After I went to the store I went shoe shopping with my friends.
Identify the run-on sentence.
I like learning English it makes me tired.
I like learning English, but it makes me tired.
I like learning English, even though it makes me tired.
I like learning English; it makes me tired.
The meaning of sentence 24 is unclear. The clarity of this sentence can be improved by changing They to —
(23) Hamm became an instant celebrity and the face of women’s soccer. (24) They lined up to have her endorse their products in advertisements. (25) In the most famous of these ads, Hamm challenged Michael Jordan to a series of sports contests, while the song “Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better” played in the background.
Some advertisements
Various women
Sports companies
International faces
Fatima realizes she has offered a weak thesis in this paper. Which of the following could replace sentences 1 and 2 and provide a more effective thesis statement for Fatima’s paper?
(1) Mia Hamm is a soccer player who is fun to study. (2) She is an expert at the sport who has encouraged others to play
Mia Hamm is an interesting and fun personality, and I am grateful for this opportunity to research her story. I think that as you read my paper, you will agree that she has added great energy to women’s sports in this country and also to sports around the world.
Mia Hamm is one of the most celebrated female soccer players of all time and is an inspiration to young women everywhere. Her contributions to women’s soccer have had an unmistakable impact on the sport, both in the United States and internationally.
There is a soccer player in this country that is clearly more talented than all the rest. Her name is Mia Hamm, and she is an outstanding player and a model athlete who works hard to make sure she is always setting an example for other athletes and for the world at large.
If you don’t know Mia Hamm, you probably don’t know much. Many people say that she is the greatest soccer player of all time because she is so supremely committed to soccer and also to all that it means to herself and the other people of the world.
Late for the plane to Chicago.
complete sentence
sentence fragment
Of course, now the meeting in Chicago about a new toothpaste for whiter teeth.
sentence fragment
complete sentence
Eight dollars for a hamburger!
sentence fragment
complete sentence
We went to the prom together
complete sentence
sentence fragment
Read each short passage that follows. Determine which part is the fragment.
Maria wasn't watching her plate of barbecue very carefully.
So Santana, the family beagle, snatched a chicken leg hanging over the edge.
As baked beans and potato salad slid onto Maria's new sandals.
Which two sentences are written incorrectly?
(Revising: Many times there are two choices that have a grammatic error. If you can find these, then you can better your chance at choosing the correct answer.)
My friends and I always love to sing together; we harmonize so well.
My friends and I always love to sing together, we harmonize so well.
My friends and I always love to sing together, because we harmonize so well.
My friends and I always love to sing together, for we harmonize so well together.
Which two sentences are written incorrectly?
(Revising: Many times there are two choices that have a grammatic error. If you can find these, then you can better your chance at choosing the correct answer.)
We can't always be right and someone has to take the blame.
We can't always be right; so someone has to take the blame.
We can't always be right; someone has to take the blame.
We can't always be right, so someone has to take the blame.
Which two sentences are written incorrectly?
(Revising: Many times there are two choices that have a grammatic error. If you can find these, then you can better your chance at choosing the correct answer.)
Without our moon, our planet would be unstable and wobble on it's axis.
Without our moon, our planet would become unstable and it would mess up our seasons.
Our seasons would become erratic without our moon, so it's very important to our lives.
The moon is more than just a pretty globe in the night sky; it is important to our seasons, tides, and crop production.
Which two sentences are written incorrectly?
(Revising: Many times there are two choices that have a grammatic error. If you can find these, then you can better your chance at choosing the correct answer.)
Violent video games are becoming more popular, but they are far from a new concept; violent games have been part of human culture for thousands of years.
Thousands of years of human evolution boils down to our need to survive and to survive in the real world, you have to be violent sometimes.
We cannot blame video games on violence in the world, people have been violent creatures since the beginning. We aren't much different than when we lived in caves.
Violence is part of human nature; we love to watch it, participate in it, and even compete in it.
Which two sentences are written incorrectly?
(Revising: Many times there are two choices that have a grammatic error. If you can find these, then you can better your chance at choosing the correct answer.)
Houston is the best city in Texas: we have so much to do every weekend.
Living in Houston can really be great since it seems like there is a festival, a show, or a trail you can go to every weekend.
There is so much to do in Houston; so if you visit, you should be sure to plan for lots to do.
There are many things you can do in Houston on the weekends: museums, festivals, parks, free shows, and shopping.
How would you fix the following sentence?
Whenever we go to the movies I always have to have popcorn.
add a semicolon after movies
add a comma after movies
delete the second "have" before popcorn
No change needed
What change if any needs to be made to the following sentence?
My cat Ollie a Norwegian Forest Cat, loves to try get into my cereal bowl when I'm not looking.
Add a comma after Ollie
Lowercase the word Cat
Add a comma after bowl
No change needed
What is the best way to correct the following sentence?
My neighbors roosters like to crow all day long, and it drives me crazy.
Delete the comma after long
Change roosters to roosters'
Change drives to driven
No change needed
What change if any needs to be made to the following sentence?
The game Super Mario Brothers have been around for a long time; it is now thirty-five years old.
Change the semicolon to a colon
Change thirty-five to thirty five
Change have to has
No change needed
What is the best way to correct the following sentence?
Although the internet is truly amazing we've become spoiled; when it runs a little bit slow, we get so aggravated.
Remove the comma after slow
Change the semicolon after spoiled to a comma
Add a comma after amazing
No change needed
She went to work, ______ she did not want to go.
Which FANBOYS is the best to use to complete theses two sentences?
and
or
but
so
It is raining outside, ________ we should stay inside.
Which FANBOYS is the best to use to complete theses two sentences?
for
and
but
so
John does (a) miss a day of work, (b) does he miss time with family.
Dominique loves hiking in the mountains, (a) she is moving to Colorado.
(16) Julian stood over his aunt’s stove, staring at the side of a box and had a struggle to decipher the precise order of operations required to make macaroni and cheese.
What revision, if any, is needed in sentence 16?
Julian stood over his aunt’s stove, staring at the side of a box and struggling to decipher the precise order of operations required to make macaroni and cheese.
Julian stood over his aunt’s stove, staring at the side of a box that struggled to decipher the precise order of operations to make macaroni and cheese and the requirements.
Julian stood over his aunt’s stove, staring and struggling to decipher the precise order of operations that were required to make macaroni and cheese on the side of a box.
No change is needed.
6) My own sister attends one of the elementary schools that feeds into our high school. (7) She is having a hard time in math.
My own sister is having a hard time in math attending one of the elementary schools that feeds into our high school.
My own sister attends one of the elementary schools that feeds into our high school although she is having a hard time in math.
My own sister, who attends one of the elementary schools that feeds into our high school, is having a hard time in math.
My own sister attends one of the elementary schools that feeds into our high school, she is having a hard time in math.
(4) Clearly, having a pet is benefitial and can provide people with a healthier and happier life.
What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 4?
Change benefitial to beneficial
Insert a comma after people
Change healthier to healthiest
No change is needed in sentence 4
(9) People feel safe when confiding in their pets, without being judgmental, a pet will often sit compassionately by its owner’s side for as long as is needed.
What is the correct way to write sentence 9?
People feel safe when confiding in their pets; without being judgmental. A pet will often sit compassionately by its owner’s side for as long as is needed.
People feel safe when confiding in their pets, without being judgmental; a pet will often sit compassionately by its owner’s side for as long as is needed.
People feel safe when confiding in their pets. Without being judgmental, a pet will often sit compassionately; by its owner’s side, for as long as is needed.
People feel safe when confiding in their pets; without being judgmental, a pet will often sit compassionately by its owner’s side for as long as is needed.
(26) Small dogs that need minimal space are more appropriate, for people who have a small home or yard.
What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 26?
Change minimal to minamal
Change are to were
Delete the comma after appropriate
No change is necessary.
(10) Unfortunately, her limited funds have run out after only one year, and she was forced to return home.
What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 10?
Change have run to ran
Delete the comma after year
Change was forced to is forced
Make no change
What change if any needs to be made to the following sentence?
My cat Ollie a Norwegian Forest Cat, loves to try get into my cereal bowl when I'm not looking.
Add a comma after Ollie
Lowercase the word Cat
Add a comma after bowl
No change needed
"It's to bad you were late to class," he said, "because I brought candy."
After I went to the store I went shoe shopping with my friends.
Identify the run-on sentence.
I like learning English it makes me tired.
I like learning English, but it makes me tired.
I like learning English, even though it makes me tired.
I like learning English; it makes me tired.
The meaning of sentence 24 is unclear. The clarity of this sentence can be improved by changing They to —
(23) Hamm became an instant celebrity and the face of women’s soccer. (24) They lined up to have her endorse their products in advertisements. (25) In the most famous of these ads, Hamm challenged Michael Jordan to a series of sports contests, while the song “Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better” played in the background.
Some advertisements
Various women
Sports companies
International faces
Fatima realizes she has offered a weak thesis in this paper. Which of the following could replace sentences 1 and 2 and provide a more effective thesis statement for Fatima’s paper?
(1) Mia Hamm is a soccer player who is fun to study. (2) She is an expert at the sport who has encouraged others to play
Mia Hamm is an interesting and fun personality, and I am grateful for this opportunity to research her story. I think that as you read my paper, you will agree that she has added great energy to women’s sports in this country and also to sports around the world.
Mia Hamm is one of the most celebrated female soccer players of all time and is an inspiration to young women everywhere. Her contributions to women’s soccer have had an unmistakable impact on the sport, both in the United States and internationally.
There is a soccer player in this country that is clearly more talented than all the rest. Her name is Mia Hamm, and she is an outstanding player and a model athlete who works hard to make sure she is always setting an example for other athletes and for the world at large.
If you don’t know Mia Hamm, you probably don’t know much. Many people say that she is the greatest soccer player of all time because she is so supremely committed to soccer and also to all that it means to herself and the other people of the world.
Late for the plane to Chicago.
complete sentence
sentence fragment
Of course, now the meeting in Chicago about a new toothpaste for whiter teeth.
sentence fragment
complete sentence
Eight dollars for a hamburger!
sentence fragment
complete sentence
We went to the prom together
complete sentence
sentence fragment
Read each short passage that follows. Determine which part is the fragment.
Maria wasn't watching her plate of barbecue very carefully.
So Santana, the family beagle, snatched a chicken leg hanging over the edge.
As baked beans and potato salad slid onto Maria's new sandals.
