Revising and Editing Practice

What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 10?

• Change most fraught to more fraught

• Change these to those

• Delete the comma after outsiders

• Sentence 10 should not be changed.

The author is considering whether or not she should add the following supporting detail to the second paragraph (sentences 3-4): "Research indicates that massive floods, projected in the 1970s to hit New York every 500 years, might hit the city every five years by 2030." Where could the author place this sentence?

• Before sentence 3

• After sentence 3

• After sentence 4

• The author should not add this sentence to the paragraph.

The author wants to add a more effective transition between the fourth paragraph (sentences 7-10) and the fifth paragraph (sentences 11-13). Which of the following sentences should be added before sentence 11 to help the reader effectively transition from the fourth to the fifth paragraph?

• How the community decides to go on directly ties into how a family will process a natural disaster.

• Learning about people's habits and decisions plays a big part in how people recover from a disaster.

• Here is a study that looked into the relocation of people after a natural disaster.

• Research indicates that sometimes, the decision is tied to what the rest of the community chooses to do.

What change needs to be made to sentence 5?

• Change affected to effected

• Insert a comma after journalists

• Change your to their

• Change have to are

The author has not used the most appropriate word in sentence 3. Which word best replaces foreboding?

• menacing

• threatening

• aggressive

• inauspicious

What is the most effective way to revise sentence 9?

• Survey results indicated residents' satisfaction with their buyouts. Still, the interviews showed a dearth of information and communication, difficulties with the buyout process, and feelings of a lack of choice ("the buyout as a foregone conclusion").

• Survey results indicated residents' satisfaction with their buyouts, but the interviews showed a dearth of information and communication, difficulties with the buyout process, and feelings of a lack of choice ("the buyout as a foregone conclusion").

• Survey results indicated residents' satisfaction with their buyouts, but the interviews showed a dearth of information and communication. Difficulties with the buyout process, and feelings of a lack of choice ("the buyout as a foregone conclusion").

• Sentence 9 should not be revised.

What change should be made to sentence 8?

• Insert a comma after 2018

• Change discrepancies to discrepancys

• Change after to before

• Change hurricane sandy to Hurricane Sandy

How should sentence 1 be changed?

• Change their to they're

• Delete the comma after stay

• Change the period to a question mark

• Change aftermath to after math

What change, if any, needs to be made to sentence 13?

• Delete the comma after relocate

• Change confidence to confidance

• Delete the quotation marks

• Sentence 13 should not be changed.

What change should be made to sentence 2?

• Delete the comma after relocate

• Change perdicted to predicted

• Change areas to area

• Delete more