STAAR Writing Editing

What change should be made in the sentence above?

• Change the comma after lumps to a period

• Change instructed to instructing

• Change stired to stirred

• No change should be made

Choose the sentence that is written correctly.

• We went to their house because there hosting a party.

• They're having a party at there house this weekend.

• We went to their house because they're hosting a party.

• There having a party at their house this weekend.

If they were in the same room, all of there things could be in one place.

What change should be made?

• Change they to we

• Delete the comma

• Change there to their

• No change needed

What change should be made?

• Change "without the" to "without no"

• Change contributions to contribution's

• Insert a comma after scientists

• Change there to their

The teams were most surprised to learn that hot liquids, such as tea and coffee, didn't score good in their tests.

What change needs to be made?

• Insert a comma after surprised

• Delete the comma after coffee

• Change good to well

• Make no change

What change should be made?

• Change Jamal and I to Jamal and me

• Delete the comma

• Change fell to feel

• Change privacy to privicy

By the end of the first day, the lighthouse was more than 10 feet away from it’s original location.

How should the sentence be changed?

• Change was to is

• Change it's to its

• Change original to origanal

• The sentence should not be changed.

The current living arrangements is causing me a lot of stress.

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

• Change arrangements to arangements

• Change is causing to are causing

• Change a lot to alot

• Make no change

It connects your brain to your spinal cord. Which connects to most of the nerves in your body.

What is the correct way to combine the sentences above?

• It connects your brain to your spinal cord, this connects to most of the nerves in your body.

• Connecting your brain to your spinal cord and then to most of the nerves in your body.

• Connecting your brain to your spinal cord. It connects to most of the nerves in your body.

• It connects your brain to your spinal cord, which connects to most of the nerves in your body.

Mr. Owens, my Band Director, insists that I practice every night. How does the sentence need to be changed?

• Change Band Director to band director

• Delete the second comma

• Change insists to insisting

• The sentence does not need to be changed.