Editing and Revising Quiz

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 2?

• Delete the comma after March

• Delete the comma after 1

• Delete the comma after 1994

• Make no change

What is the BEST way to combine sentences 3 and 4?

• Many people do not know that he taught himself to play the piano, but he also taught himself to play the drums, guitar, and trumpet.

• Many people do not know that he taught himself to play the piano, he also taught himself to play the drums, guitar, and trumpet.

• Many people do not know that he taught himself to play the piano, drums, guitar, and the trumpet.

• Many people do not know that he taught himself to play the piano, and he taught himself to play the drums, guitar, and trumpet.

Which sentence could be added to the end of the first paragraph (sentences 1-4)?

• I think he is an amazing singer and so will you.

• I think I want to learn to play those instruments, too.

• Did you know he likes to play hockey, soccer, and chess?

• It was only a matter of time before his music career would take off.

(a)   could BEST be added to the beginning of sentence 10.

• Soon after
• Next
• To promote the album
• Then

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 10?

• Delete the word starts

• Change starts to started

• Delete the comma

• Change the period to a question mark

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 11?

• Change bigest to biggest

• Change charted to charts

• Add a comma after January

• No change is needed in sentence 11.

What is the BEST way to combine sentences 13 and 14?

• The song debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart, and Bieber became the youngest solo male musical act to top the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart since Stevie Wonder in 1963.

• The song debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart, but Bieber became the youngest solo male musical act to top the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart since Stevie Wonder in 1963.

• The song debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart. Bieber became the youngest solo male musical act to top the album chart since Stevie Wonder in 1963.

• The song debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200, and Bieber became the youngest solo male musical act to top that album chart since Stevie Wonder in 1963.

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 15? (a)  

• Delete the comma after 2010.
• Change off to of
• Change her to his
• Make no change

How would you fix the following sentence?

Whenever we go to the movies I always have to have popcorn.

• add a semicolon after movies

• add a comma after movies

• delete the second "have" before popcorn

• No change needed

What change if any needs to be made to the following sentence?

My cat Ollie a Norwegian Forest Cat, loves to try get into my cereal bowl when I'm not looking.

• Add a comma after Ollie

• Lowercase the word Cat

• Add a comma after bowl

• No change needed