Editing STAAR REVIEW HS ENGLISH

Read Ming Ha's essay and look for any corrections that she needs to make. When you finish reading, answer the questions that follow.

What change should Ming-Ha make in sentence 1?

• Change say to saying

• Insert a colon after teenagers

• Change Are to Our

• Change the question mark to a period

What change should be made in sentence 21?

• Change worked to works

• Change hour's to hours

• Change the comma after children to a semicolo

• Change eventually to evetuelly

Answer explanation

The phrase before the quote is a complete thought, so a colon is the correct punctuation.

What is the correct way to write sentence 16?

• I had always been impressed that I had so many aunts and uncles. I realize now

  how hard my grandmother worked so everyone could have a comfortable life.

• I had always been impressed that I had so many aunts and uncles and I realize

  now how hard my grandmother worked so everyone could have a comfortable

  life.

• I had always been impressed. That I had so many aunts and uncles I realize now

  how hard my grandmother worked so everyone could have a comfortable life

• I had always been impressed that I had so many aunts and uncles so I realize

  now how hard my grandmother worked so everyone could have a comfortable

  life.

How should Ming-Ha change sentence 18?

• Insert a semicolon after buns

• Change had learned to learns

• Insert a comma after make

• Change Bakery to bakery

What change should be made in sentence 2?

• Change can teach to taught

• Insert a colon after children

• Change responsability to responsibility

• Change to spend to spending

What change should be made to sentence 5?

• Change are to is

• Change than to then

• Change physically to fisically

• Change an to a

What change, if any, should be made to sentence 9?

• Insert a comma after WAF

• Change asked to ask

• Insert a comma after father

• No change is needed.

How does sentence 18 need to be changed?

• Change sends to sending

• Change Adoption Certificate to adoption certificate

• Change depicting to depicted

• Change animals' to animals

What change is needed in sentence 23?

• Change mission to missions

• Change others to them

• Insert a comma after contributing

• Change the comma after programs to a semicolon