Sentences
(6) As everyone knows, the best way to become proficient at throwing a football or playing the piano is to practice public speaking is no different.
Select the answer choice that fixes sentence 6.
A. to practice, public speaking
B. to practice; public speaking
C. to practice public, speaking
D. to practice: public speaking
B. to practice; public speaking
(6) As everyone knows, the best way to become proficient at throwing a football or playing the piano is to practice; public speaking is no different.
(4) The PCT dates back to 1932. (5) At that time a hiker named Clinton C. Clarke dreams of linking existing trails to make one long trail. (6) It would stretch all the way from Mexico to Canada.
What change should be made in sentence 5?
A. Change hiker to Hiker
B. Change named to he was named
C. Change dreams to dreamed
D. Insert a comma after trails
C. Change dreams to dreamed
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(5) At that time a hiker named Clinton C. Clarke dreamed of linking existing trails to make one long trail.
(9) The project got a boost when President Lyndon B. Johnson designated the PCT as one, of two national trails in 1968.
What change should be made in sentence 9?
A. Change boost to boosted
B. Change President to president
C. Delete the comma after the word one
D. Change national to National
C. Delete the comma after the word one
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(9) The project got a boost when President Lyndon B. Johnson designated the PCT as one of two national trails in 1968.
(2) Hikers who complete the entire trail pass through varied types of wilderness, including scrubby desert lands, forested hills, and jagged peeks.
What change needs to be made in sentence 2?
A. Insert a comma after Hikers
B. Change who to that
C. Change pass to passes
D. Change peeks to peaks
D. Change peeks to peaks
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(2) Hikers who complete the entire trail pass through varied types of wilderness, including scrubby desert lands, forested hills, and jagged peaks.
(20) Today the subway cars are crawling with life. (21) Coral and barnacles that could never grow on the sandy ocean floor is spread across the hard walls of the subway cars.
What change is needed in sentence 21?
A. Change barnacles to Barnacles
B. Change could to couldn't
C. Insert a comma after floor
D. Change is spread to are spread
D. Change is spread to are spread
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(21) Coral and barnacles that could never grow on the sandy ocean floor are spread across the hard walls of the subway cars.
(7) People who belong to public speaking clubs overcome their nerves, and bad habits by standing up and giving speeches in warm, supportive environments.
Which sentence BEST corrects the errors in sentence 7?
A. People who belong to public speaking clubs overcoming their nerves and bad habits by standing up and giving speeches in warm, supportive environments.
B. People who belong to public speaking clubs overcome their nerves and bad habits by standing up and giving speeches in warm, supportive environments.
B. People who belong to public speaking clubs overcome their nerves and bad habits by standing up and giving speeches in warm, supportive environments.
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(7) People who belong to public speaking clubs overcome their nerves, and bad habits by standing up and giving speeches in warm, supportive environments.
(24) Local businesses are benefiting from the fishing opportunities, which in turn helped the overall economy.
What change needs to be made in sentence 24?
A. Change are benefiting to is benefiting
B. Delete the comma after opportunities
C. Change helped to helps
D. Change economy to Economy
C. Change helped to helps
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(24) Local businesses are benefiting from the fishing opportunities, which in turn helps the overall economy.
(4) So what does the city of New York do with the old subway cars? (5) In the past some were sold to be preserved or reused, however, most subway cars were scrapped for their metal.
What change is needed in sentence 5?
A. Change were sold to was sold
B. Change the comma after reused to a semicolon
C. Change however to instead
D. Change scrapped to scraped
B. Change the comma after reused to a semicolon
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(5) In the past some were sold to be preserved or reused; however, most subway cars were scrapped for their metal.
(2) About 6,500 subway cars combine to make up one of the nation's most efficeint train systems.
Sentence 2 contains a spelling error. Select the answer choice that will correct the error in this sentence.
A. eficient
B. efficent
C. effishent
D. efficient
D. efficient
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(2) About 6,500 subway cars combine to make up one of the nation's most efficient train systems.
(4) Luckily for them, there is an organization called Toastmasters international that helps reluctant speakers. (5) With some effort, they can become skilled at public speaking.
What change needs to be made in sentence 4?
A. Change there is to theirs
B. Change called to it is called
C. Change Toastmasters international to Toastmasters International
D. Change helps to help
C. Change Toastmasters international to Toastmasters International
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(4) Luckily for them, there is an organization called Toastmasters International that helps reluctant speakers.
(8) Toastmasters was founded by Ralph Smedley. (9) Who wanted to promote leadership and communication skills in young men and thought that public speaking clubs would be a good way to do so.
Which sentence correctly rewrites sentence 9?
A. Smedley wanted to promote leadership and communication skills in young men and thought that public speaking clubs would be a good way to do so.
B. Smedley wanted to promote leadership and communication skills in young men and thought this. That public speaking clubs would be a good way to do so.
A. Smedley wanted to promote leadership and communication skills in young men and thought that public speaking clubs would be a good way to do so.
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(9) Who wanted to promote leadership and communication skills in young men and thought that public speaking clubs would be a good way to do so.
(9) The group's mission is to bring people together to share and preserve its stories.
What change should be made in sentence 9?
A. Change group's to groups'
B. Insert a comma after together
C. Change preserve to preserving
D. Change its to their
D. Change its to their
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(9) The group's mission is to bring people together to share and preserve their stories.
(9) They form gradually and create a diverse ecosystem providing shelter and food for a vast array of marine life. (10) The fish that live in and around coral reefs have great commercial value and significantly benefit local economies.
What change is needed in sentence 9?
A. Change gradually to gradual
B. Change create to creates
C. Insert a comma after ecosystem
D. Change marine to Marine
C. Insert a comma after ecosystem
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(9) They form gradually and create a diverse ecosystem, providing shelter and food for a vast array of marine life.
(11) Naica is on top of an ancient underground fault, which is a break in the ground where the tektonic plates of Earth have shifted.
What change should Jazmin make in sentence 11?
A. Delete the comma after fault
B. Change break to brake
C. Change tektonic to tectonic
D. Change have shifted to have shifts
C. Change tektonic to tectonic
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(11) Naica is on top of an ancient underground fault, which is a break in the ground where the tectonic plates of Earth have shifted.
(18) At night she baked the breads and buns she had learned how to make when she was a little girl helping her parents in their Bakery in China.
How should Ming-Ha change sentence 18?
A. Insert a semicolon after buns
B. Change had learned to learns
C. Insert a comma after make
D. Change Bakery to bakery
D. Change Bakery to bakery
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(18) At night she baked the breads and buns she had learned how to make when she was a little girl helping her parents in their bakery in China.
(11) In recent years the number of thru- hikers on the PCT have skyrocketed. (12) This may be due to a best-selling book and subsequent movie in which a woman described her experiences hiking the trail.
What change, if any, is needed in sentence 11?
A. Change recent to resent
B. Insert a comma after thru-hikers
C. Change have skyrocketed to has skyrocketed
D. No change is needed.
C. Change have skyrocketed to has skyrocketed
(11) In recent years the number of thru- hikers on the PCT has skyrocketed.
(14) My digital slang covered the page, and they raised a red flag for my dad.
What correction should be made in sentence 14?
A. Change My to Our
B. Change covered to covers
C. Delete the comma after page
D. Change they to it
D. Change they to it
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(14) My digital slang covered the page, and it raised a red flag for my dad.
(1) Parents, grandparents, and teachers often say the same thing to teenagers "Are you listening to me?"
What change should Ming-Ha make in sentence 1?
A. Change say to saying
B. Insert a colon after teenagers
C. Change Are to Our
D. Change the question mark to a period
B. Insert a colon after teenagers
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(1) Parents, grandparents, and teachers often say the same thing to teenagers: "Are you listening to me?"
(19) In order to learn more about this impressive minerallogical discovery, scientists exploring the caves are working to develop strategies and tools that will help them stay underground longer.
What change should Jazmin make in sentence 19?
A. Change minerallogical to mineralogical
B. Delete the comma after discovery
C. Change are working to workedA. Change minerallogical to mineralogical
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(19) In order to learn more about this impressive mineralogical discovery, scientists exploring the caves are working to develop strategies and tools that will help them stay underground longer.
(21) She worked long hour's while also taking care of all her children, and eventually she cared for her grandchildren.
What change should be made in sentence 21?
A. Change worked to works
B. Change hour's to hours
C. Change the comma after children to a semicolon
D. Change eventually to eventuelly
B. Change hour's to hours
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(21) She worked long hours while also taking care of all her children, and eventually she cared for her grandchildren.
FINAL JEOPARDY!
(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.
RE-WRITE THE SENTENCE CORRECTLY. You have 5 minutes.
A. 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.
B. 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.
C. 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.