Editing Practice

What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 18?

• Change It was to It is

• Delete and

• Change desided to decided

• Sentence 18 does not need to be changed.

What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 34?

• Change I had moved to moving

• Change finally to finely

• Change pitchers to pitcher’s

• Sentence 34 does not need to be changed.

hello my name is ms.Noodles and i curently teach sixth grade level language arts

• currenlty

• currently

• curntly

• currentlly

if i teach sigth grade then all my students are 11-12

• sixth

• sicth

• sexth

• sixtth

Ava is an exeptcinally good worker when it comes to my class

• acceptynoly

• exceptcinally

• acceptcinally

• exceptionally

The sentence below contains one error in grammar usage. Read the sentence and the question that follows.

The beach is packed with people who has come to watch the surfing competition.

Which version of the sentence has been correctly edited for grammar usage?

• The beach is packed with people who has comes to watch the surfing competition.

• The beach is packed with people who has came to watch the surfing competition.

• The beach is packed with people who have come to watch the surfing competition.

• The beach is packed with people who have comes to watch the surfing competition.

Choose the sentence that has correct use of verb tense.

• Eddie explained, "If I had finished my homework, then I have had time to play basketball now," and then he added, "but I make a poor choice."

• Eddie explained, "If I had finished my homework, then I would have had time to play basketball now," and then he added, "but I made a poor choice."

• Eddie explained, "If I had finished my homework, then I will have time to play basketball now," and then he added, "but I made a poor choice."

• Eddie explained, "If I had finished my homework, then I have had time to play basketball now," and then he added, "but I was making a poor choice."

Edit the sentences by clicking on the two sentences that use the incorrect verb tenses.

• Today is Tuesday, and it is warm and sunny.

• Our family wants to go on a trip this weekend.

• If the weather remained nice, we will go to the beach.

• The newspaper says it will rain on Saturday, however. We will go to a movie if it does rain.

• Mom says we deciding our plan on Friday.

Choose the two sentences that are missing a comma.

• She helps me with my homework every day after school.

• Before our class goes to the cafeteria all of the students wash their hands.

• The little boy pretended as if he had no idea how the chocolate milk spilled on the new rug.

• The fifth-graders hope that they will be allowed to sit with their friends in the cafeteria starting next week.

• Once we realized that the thunderstorm was headed toward us we gathered our picnic basket and finished eating in the car.

Choose the sentence that is punctuated correctly.

• If, it starts to thunder, swimmers must leave the pool.

• My cousin who lives on Main Street, loves to watch movies.

• Eventually, the travelers realized that, they had somehow gotten lost.

• Finally, in the last seconds of the game, Jenny made a home run to win the game.