Editing Review

What change is needed? "I did not think a road trip to an outdoor museum would be fun I was wrong."

• I did not think a road trip to an outdoor museum would be fun, but I was wrong.

• I did not think a road trip to an outdoor museum would be fun or I was wrong.

• I did not think a road trip to an outdoor museum would be fun, since I was wrong.

• I did not think a road trip to an outdoor museum would be fun because I was wrong.

Instead of landing in Virginia as planned the Mayflower ended up in massachusetts near Cape Cod. What change is needed?

• Change Virginia to virginia

• Change Mayflower to mayflower

• Change massachusetts to Massachusetts

• Make no change

Soon. He started publishing a weekly newspaper called The Pennsylvania Gazette.

What change is needed?

• Change Pennsylvania to pennsylvania

• Replace the period after soon with a comma and change He to he

• Make no change

• Change He to he

However, the Pilgrims wanted to live in a community with any type of fair and safe structure.

What change is needed?

• Change Pilgrims to pilgrims

• Delete the comma after However

• Change wanted to wants

• Make no change

Franklin wrote it when, he was an old man finishing it when he was 82.

What change is needed?

• Move the comma after when to after man

• Move the comma after when to after Franklin

• Delete the comma

• Make no change

Later, he began a second newspaper, in german, to serve Pennsylvania’s many German settlers.

What change is needed?

• Delete the comma after Later.

• change 'german' to German

• Change 'German' to german

• Make no change

My aunt opened the jewelry box and screamed, “Your grandma’s beautiful diamond necklace is missing!

What change is needed?

• Change grandma’s to grandmas’

• Insert a comma after box

• Insert quotation marks after missing!

• Make no change

On november 11, 1620, the colonists signed this important document.

What change is needed?

• Change november to November

• Delete the comma after 1620

• Change colonists to Colonists

• Make no change

The teacher scanned the room and said “If you’re caught talking, you will have two days of lunch detention next week.”

What change is needed?

• Add a comma after said

• Change you’re to your

• Change days to day’s

• Make no change

It would eventually become known as the Mayflower compact.

What change is needed?

• Change become to became

• Make no change

• Change Mayflower to mayflower

• Change compact to Compact