ELAR Editing

The boys (drove/drived) the car down the street. 

• drove
• drived

Taking out words that don't make sense in a sentence happens in the editing phase of the writing process.

• True
• False

What a beautiful view (./?/!)

• .
• ?
• !

(They're/Their/There) boots got wet in the rain.

• They'r
• Their
• Ther

Which word is spelled incorrectly in the sentence?
A pear of something is two objects.

• two
• something 
• pear

Which capital letter is used incorrectly?
The boy's sister, Monica, loved the Pepperoni pizza.

• The
• Monica
• Pepperoni

Choose the best word option for the sentence.
The sailor stood on the pier and (fished/looked/swam) towards the horizon.

• Fished
• Looked
• Swam

Revising is when the writer makes sure that the writing _______.

• Has punctuation
• Flows well together
• Uses capital letters
• Is spelled correctl

A thesaurus is a tool for checking the definition of words.

• True

• False

What does it mean to say that nouns and verbs match?

• They have the same first sound
• They look the same
• They are in the same tense
• They rhyme