Revising
My friends and I didn't win. We're going to try again soon!
What is the BEST way to combine the sentences?
A. Because my friends and I didn't win, we're going to try again soon!
B. My friends and I didn't win, and we're going to try again soon!
C. My friends and I didn't win, but we're going to try again soon!
D. My friends and I didn't win, we're going to try again soon!
C. My friends and I didn't win, but we're going to try again soon!
Monarchs that live east of the Rocky Mountains migrate to Mexico for the winter.
What part of speech is Monarchs?
Proper Noun
Most of the United States is too colder for Monarchs during the winter.
What change should be made?
A. Change Most to Mostly
B. Change too to to
C. Change colder to cold
D. Make no change
C. Change colder to cold
You use this to combine two sentences properly.
A conjunction
What is the best way to revise this sentence?
Climbing trees is a good way to get your heart pumping and kicking soccer balls, too.
Climbing trees and kicking soccer balls are good ways to get your heart pumping.
They peck away at the food, and they use their strong little jaws to crack their food open.
What is the BEST was to revise the sentence?
A. They peck and crack their good with their strong little jaws.
B. They crack open their food by pecking at it with their strong little jaws.
C. They peck away with their strong little jaws and crack their food open.
D. They peck away at the food. They use their strong little jaws to crack their food open.
B. They crack open their food by pecking at it with their strong little jaws.
Monarchs that live east of the Rocky Mountains migrate to Mexico for the winter.
What part of speech is live?
verb
Monarchs that live east of the Rocky Mountains migrate to mexico for the winter.
What change should be made?
A. change live to lives
B. change mexico to Mexico
C. change for to on
D. Make no change
B. change mexico to Mexico
This is when you use too many conjunctions in one sentence and combine too many sentences.
a run-on sentence
She tried them on. She loved them!
What is the best way to combine these sentences?
She tried them on and loved them!
Bill and Phil became partners. They started their own shoe business.
What is the BEST way to combine the sentences?
A. Bill and Phil became partners, they started their own shoe business.
B. Bill and Phil became partners when they started their own shoe business.
C. Bill and Phil became partners, so they started their own shoe business.
D. Bill and Phil became partners and then started their own shoe business.
D. Bill and Phil became partners and then started their own shoe business.
Monarchs that live east of the Rocky Mountains migrate to Mexico for the winter.
What part of speech is migrate?
verb
They may recognize the color and smell of clover milkweed, and other flowers.
What change should be made?
Insert a comma after clover
This takes the place of a noun...
Pronoun
This part of speech describes a verb...
Adverb
The babies had grown up, they had flown away.
What is the BEST way to revise the sentence?
A. The babies had grown up and flown away.
B. The babies had grown up. They had flown away.
C. The babies had grown up, and they had flown away.
D. No revision is needed.
A. The babies had grown up and flown away.
Monarch butterflies are beautiful, orange, and black butterflies.
What part of speech is beautiful?
adjective
The king and his officials decided what rights the people in the colonys could have.
What change should be made?
change colonys to colonies
Words like "Wow!" and "Oh, man!" are called...
Interjections
Daily Double
Children might challenge there friends to a race or restling match.
What changes should be made?
Change there to their
and
Change restling to wrestling
He wrote his own words. He used a familiar tune.
What is the BEST was to combine the sentences?
A. He wrote his own words and tune.
B. He used a familiar tune and words.
C. He wrote his own words to a familiar tune.
D. He wrote his own words and used his own familiar tune.
C. He wrote his own words to a familiar tune.
This part of speech is used when a writer wants to show a relation from one object to another.
Ex: The squirrel jumped over the branch.
Preposition
Their rights were written does in an agrement called a charter.
What change should be made?
change agrement to agreement
This is when you add a comma without a conjunction between two sentences.
A comma splice
What change should be made?
Change revolution to Revolution