The Bugman Stumbles

(8) So imagine my reaction when I lucked out during todays' vocabulary exercise.

How should sentence 8 be changed?

• change imagine to imagining

• insert a semicolon after reaction

• change todays' to today's

• sentence 8 should not be changed

(9) "This, ladies and gentlemen," Mr. Potter announced as he held up a hat, "Contains all the words on your vocabulary list."

What change needs to be made in sentence 9?

• change ladies to lady's

• change announced to announsed

• delete the comma after hat

• change Contains to contains

(11) Then we would have 15 minutes to look up the word and prepare a breif oral report on its meaning, origin, and alternate forms.

What change should be made in sentence 11?

• insert a comma after word

• change prepare to prepared

• change breif to brief

• change its to it's

(14) When I unfolded mine I let out a whoop.

What change should be made in sentence 14?

• delete When

• insert a comma after mine

• change I let out to and let out

• sentence 14 should not be changed

(20) I jotted down some notes about the word's origin along with a couple of example sentences, the rest of the report would be a breeze.

What is the correct way to write sentence 20?

• I jotted down some notes about the word's origin along with a couple of example sentences. Sure that the rest of the report would be a breeze.

• I jotted down some notes about the word's origin. Which along with a couple of example sentences meant that the rest of the report would be a breeze.

• I jotted down some notes about the word's origin along with a couple of example sentences. The rest of the report would be a breeze.

• The sentence is written correctly in the paper.

(25) Confidently approaching the board, I said the word entomology allowed and wrote its definition in big, bold letters.

What change should be made in sentence 25?

• change Confidentely to Confidentally

• change approaching to approach

• change the first comma to a period

• change allowed to aloud

(32) The laughter seems to be coming from every corner of the classroom.

What change needs to be made in sentence 32?

• change seems to seemed

• insert a comma after coming

• change from to it was from

• no change needs to be made

(34) "That was an interesting report," he said to an irruption of laughter.

How should sentence 34 be changed?

• delete the quotation marks after the comma

• change he to He

• change irruption to eruption

• no change is needed in sentence 34

What resource should you use to help with spelling and grammar rules on revising and editing passages?

• the teacher

• thesaurus

• dictionary

• a friend