Revising & Editing

Find the error in the following sentence.

"Your cousin Juan will be there, and you used to play basketball for hours with them."

• delete the last quotation mark

• change Your to You're

• change them to him

• add a comma after cousin

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.6.1A

CCSS.L.6.1C

CCSS.L.6.1D

Find the error in the following sentence.

"Your cousin Juan will be there, and you used to play basketball for hours with them."

• delete the last quotation mark

• change Your to You're

• change them to him

• add a comma after cousin

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.6.1A

CCSS.L.6.1C

CCSS.L.6.1D

What change should be made in the following sentence?

She sighed as her father, who was walking toward some older relatives was greeted warmly with big hugs.

• add a comma after relatives

• change sighed to sigh

• change warmly to warm

• change toward to at

Tags

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

What change should be made in the following sentence?

At last Marta captured a glimpse of Juan, who was wearing his terra vista middle school basketball jersey.

• add a comma after Marta

• capitalize Terra Vista

• capitalize Terra Vista Middle School

• capitalize Terra Vista Middle School Basketball Jersey

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2A

CCSS.L.2.2A

CCSS.L.3.2A

CCSS.L.4.2A

CCSS.L.K.2A

What is the correct way to write the following sentence (without changing its meaning)?

After becoming registered voters, may people have exercised their right to vote, voted in every election.

• After becoming registered voters, many people have exercised their right to vote in every election.

• Many people have exercised their right to vote. Voted in every election after becoming registered voters.

• After becoming registered voters. Many people have exercised their right to vote in every election.

• Many people have exercised their right to vote, voted in every election, becoming registered voters.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.3A

CCSS.L.7.1C

Greg would like to use a more appropriate word in the following sentence.

Designers take advantage of gravity to generate speed on their ride as cars lower these slopes.

Which word should replace lower in this sentence?

• depart

• extend

• descend

• increase

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The following sentence includes repeated information.

Designers aim to set new records with each new roller coaster they design because that is their objective.

Which revision most improves this sentence?

• Designers aim to set new records with each new roller coaster they design.

• Designers have an objective to set new records that they aim for when designing each new roller coaster.

• Designers set new records to aim for them with each new roller-coaster design.

• Designers aim to set new records because that is their objective with each new roller-coaster design.

What change should be made in the following sentence?

"You are going to have a magnificent time, " replies her father.

• delete the comma after time

• change the comma to a question mark

• change replies to replied

• change her to them

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.6.3A

(1) in 1877, The Spalding Company made one of the first baseball mitts. (2) Before it's creation, baseball players played with their bare hands.

Which sentence would be go after sentence 2 as a detail to support the paragraph?

• It was in 1877 when this happened.

• The new mitt was worn by the catcher and had no fingers.

• The first baseball mitts were made by saddle makers.

• Outfields soon began to wear baseball mitts, too.

(1) In the times of the Middle Ages, many children dreamt of becoming a knight. (2) Usually one first became a page when one was eight years old. (3) As a page, a boy would serve his lord because he became a teenager. (4) Then he would become an esquire.

Which word should replace the word "BECAUSE" in sentence 3 to best combine the two?

• until

• if

• while

• although

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1G

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.5.1E