1/30/25 Editing practice

2 What change, if any, should be made in sentence 7?

(7) When he heard about the opening for a new band director at our school he couldn’t help investigating.

• Insert a comma after school
• Change investigating to investigatting
• The sentence is written correctly in the paper.

What change, if any, should be made in the sentence below?

Over the summer my family took a vacation to New York city.

• Change took to had took

• Insert a comma after vacation

• Change city to City

• No change should be made.

What type of edit should be made to sentence below?

the french people were very proud of the help they had given the united states during the revolutionary war.

• Capitalization

• Punctuation

• Spelling

What is the correct way to write the sentence?

Zoey took one last look at the sandy mound and then the waves carried her away again.

• Zoey took one last look. At the sandy mound. Then the waves carried her away again.

• Zoey took one last look at the sandy mound. Before the waves carried her away again.

• Zoey taking one last look at the sandy mound, and then the waves carrying her away again.

• Zoey took one last look at the sandy mound, and then the waves carried her away again.

What change, if any, is needed in the sentence below?

I thought about skipping the Event altogether.

• Change I thought to Thought

• Change skipping to skiping

• Change Event to event

• Make no change

What change, if any, is needed in the sentence below?

“It doesn’t really matter how small or old you are” he insists.

• Change doesn’t to doesnt

• Change are to is

• Add a comma after are

• No change is needed.

What change, if any, is needed in the sentence below?

When Zoey's nest was complete, she laid her eggs?

• Delete When

• Change the question mark to a period

• Change laid to lays

• No change needs to be made to this sentence.