Apostrophes/Change or Make no Change
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Colon, or Semicolon/Change or Make no Change
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What change, if any, should be made in sentence 3? (3) When I was younger, I played on the local boys team.
Change boys to boys'
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What change, if any, should be made in sentence 18? (18) In the Pacific Islands, humans hunt coconut crabs for food.
Make no change
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What change, if any, should be made in sentence 20? (20)Furthermore the military requested things made of steel, which it recycled into weapons.
Insert a comma after Furthermore
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What change, if any, should be made in sentence 4? (4) In today's world, parents and teachers have high expectasions for us seventh-graders.
Change expectasions to expectations
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What change, if any, should be made in sentence 11? (11) However, they are omnivorous, they will eat almost any kind of food.
Change the comma after omnivorous to a semicolon.
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What change, if any, should be made in sentence 5? (5) Along with her mother and brother, Mary collected and sold fossils to support the family after her fathers death.
Change fathers to father's
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What change, if any, should be made to sentence 2? (2) Desperate for new entertainment, I called my Cousin Arnie.
Change Cousin to cousin
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What change, if any, should be made in sentence 18? (18)Therefore, when you hire a seventh-grader you are likely to get a trained babysitter who is excited about watching your children.
Insert a comma after seventh-grader
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*************DAILY DOUBLE!!!************What change, if any, should be made in sentence 19? (19) Finally, the deaths of scholars and artists affected world culture.
Change affected to effected
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What change, if any, should be made in sentence 11? (11) At the time of the Black Death, no vaccinations were available, therefore, the Black Death spread rapidly.
Change the comma after available to a semicolon
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What change, if any, should be made in sentence 25? (25) If George teases me again, I'd be able to respond with a scientific explanation.
Change I'd to I'll
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What change, if any, should be made in sentence 6? (6) Soybeans were first introduced to the American Colonies in 1765.
Change Colonies to colonies
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What change should be made in sentence 4? (4)When my uncle first took me for a ride I felt like a soaring eagle.
Insert a comma after ride
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What change, if any, should be made in sentence 5? (5) Banana peels can also soothe skin iritated from acne, bug bites, and poison ivy.
Change iritated to irritated
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What change should be made in sentence 2? (2) I enjoy exploring the bustling big city, however, when I want to be somewhere quiet, I go to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Change the comma after city to a semicolon
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What change, if any, should be made in sentence 1? (1) When dentists do examinations, they draw conclusions about their patients diets.
Change patients to patients'
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What change should be made in sentence 6? (6) Abraham Lincoln had actually freed the slaves more than two years prior when he ordered the emancipation proclamation on September 22, 1862.
Change emancipation proclamation to Emancipation Proclamation
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What change, if any, should be made in sentence 20? (20) Hedgehogs also consume plants, that are poisonous to other animals.
Delete the comma
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What change, if any, should be made in sentence 19? (18) An etiquette rule of the time stated, "Pick not thy teeth at the table, unless holding up thy napkin before thy mouth with thy other hand." (19) Supposedly, the napkin prevented other diners from seeing the inpolite behavior.
Change inpolite to impolite
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What change, if any, should be made in sentence 16? (16) Consider all of the jobs that require writing; advertising, television, and public speaking.
Change the semicolon to a colon
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What change, if any, should be made in sentence 6? (6) During Alexander's reign, hieroglyphics were still the main Egyptian language.
Make no change
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What change, if any, should be made in sentence 24? (24) "Even though it took me five years," Uncle Bill said,"Building the ultralight plane is one of my biggest accomplishments."
Change Building to building
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What change, if any, should be made in sentence 22? (21) Rediscoveries of "extinct" animals are not rare. (22) In fact more than one-third of the species ever classified as extinct have been found again.
Insert a comma after fact
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What change, if any, should be made in sentence 19? (18) Scientists have discovered that they can use tiny fragments of fast-growing coral to help restore bleached reefs in nurseries. (19) The scientists attach the coral peices to concrete blocks.
Change peices to pieces
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What change, if any, should be made in sentence 8? (6) In 1811, Mary and her brother discovered the first fossil of an ichthyosaur, a fish-like lizard. (7) Her brother found the first few small pieces, but Mary found most of the dinosaur's remains. (8) The discovery was written up in a scientific journal, however, Mary did not receive credit for the find.
Change the comma after journal to a semicolon
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