English I STAAR Editing Grammar Quiz

What change, if any, is needed in sentence 8?

• Change Classified to classified

• Delete the comma after crystals

• Change translucent to transluscent

• No change is needed.

What change should Jazmin make in sentence 11?

• Delete the comma after fault

• Change break to brake

• Change tektonic to tectonic

• Change have shifted to have shifts

What change should be made in sentence 19?

• Change minerallogical to mineralogical

• Delete the comma after discovery

• Change exploring to explore

• Change them to it

What is the correct way to write sentences 21 and 22?

• If there is a shocking cave like this: 980 feet below the surface of Mexico then there could be more discoveries just like it in other parts of the world.

• If there is a shocking cave like this 980 feet below the surface of Mexico; then there could be more discoveries just like it in other parts of the world.

• If there is a shocking cave like this 980 feet below the surface of Mexico then there could be more discoveries, just like it, in other parts of the world.

• If there is a shocking cave like this 980 feet below the surface of Mexico, then there could be more discoveries just like it in other parts of the world.

What change should Jazmin make in sentence 23?

• Change There are to There’s

• Change have to has

• Delete the comma after eyes

• Change dazzeling to dazzling

What change should be made in sentence 2?

• Change can teach to taught

• Insert a colon after children

• Change responsability to responsibility

• Change to spend to spending

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 9?

• Insert a comma after WAF

• Change asked to ask

• Insert a comma after father

• No change is needed.

How does sentence 18 need to be changed?

• Change sends to sending

• Change Adoption Certificate to adoption certificate

• Change depicting to depicted

• Change animals’ to animals

What change is needed in sentence 23?

• Change mission to missions

• Change others to them

• Insert a comma after contributing

• Change the comma after programs to a semicolon

What is the correct way to write sentence 8?

• F She promised her mother that she would succeed consequently, she walked the four-mile distance daily, between her home and school.

• G She promised her mother that she would succeed consequently she walked the four-mile distance daily between her home and school.

• She promised her mother that she would succeed. Consequently, she walked; the four-mile distance daily between her home and school.

• She promised her mother that she would succeed. Consequently, she walked the four-mile distance daily between her home and school.