Questions about James Bowie

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

• change frontiersman to frontiersmen

• insert a comma after frontiersman

• delete the comma after speculator

• No change is needed.

Answer explanation

Enter a comma after the word "frontiersman" because right after the term "frontiersman," the author gives you the actual definition of this word: a land speculator. A

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 3?

• delete the comma after However

• change is to was

• change "March, 6" to "March 6, "

• Make no change in this sentence.

Answer explanation

When you write the date in word form, you place the COMMA after the day, NOT the month.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.3.3

CCSS.RI.3.5

What change, if any, needs to be made to sentence 6?

• change grew to grows

• change louisiana to Louisiana

• insert a comma after frontier

• Make no change in sentence 6.

Answer explanation

Louisiana is PROPER NOUN!

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.3.3

CCSS.RI.3.5

What change, if any, should be made to sentence 16?

• change acres to acre's

• change thousands to thousand's

• change the period to a question mark

• No change is needed.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.3.3

CCSS.RI.3.5

Mike would like to combine sentence 17 and sentence 18. What is the best way to combine the sentences?

• However, there was a dictator in Mexico named Santa Anna he did not like Anglos owning so much land in Texas.

• However, there was a dictator in Mexico named Santa Anna because he did not like Anglos owning so much land in Texas.

• However, there was a dictator in Mexico named Santa Anna who did not like Anglos owning so much land in Texas.

• However, there was a dictator named Santa Anna in Mexico he did not like Anglos owning so much land in Texas.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.3.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 21?

• change pepole to people

• change join to joined

• insert a comma after Mexico

• No change is needed in this sentence.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.5.3