Tree House Tourist 1
What change, if any, needs to be made in this sentence:
In Mexico a tree house is set over the shoreline coast.
a. Change set to sets
b. Change Mexico to mexico
c. Change coast to coste
d. No change is needed
d. No change is needed
Answer (a) is wrong because it would not keep the subject-verb agreement in saying tee house is sets
Mexico needs a capital because it is a proper noun.
Coste is not a word according to the dictionary.
What change should be made in this sentence?
Tropical rain forests, thickly wilderness areas, or trees along an island shore are just a few places they are located.
a. Change rain forests to rain forest's
b. Change thickly to thick
c. Delete the comma after areas
d. Insert a comma after shore
b. Change thickly to thick
Thickly is an adverb - For example, it would be used to describe how someone spread jelly on bread.
Thick is an adjective, describing the noun wilderness areas
Which change should be made to this sentence?
They will hit the bubbles with their long noses or spin around and slap the bubbles with there tails.
a. Insert a comma before or
b. Change there to their
c. Insert a comma before and
d. make no change
b. Change there to their
Dolphins are smart animals but they are also curious and playful.
a. Change playful to play
b. Insert a comma before but
c. Change Dolphins to dolphins
d. make no change
b. Insert a comma before but
It is a compound sentence
What change should be made in this sentence:
For example, a person in a rain forest will likely need to walks up wobbly narrow bridges and use ropes for support.
a. Change need to needs
b. Change walks to walk
c. Change use to using
d. No change is needed
b. Change walks to walk
This creates subject-verb agreement by saying a person will need to walk instead of a person will need to walks
What change is needed in this sentence:
You may prefer just to climb in a traditionul backyard tree house.
a. Change prefer to prefers
b. Change climb to climbing
c. Change traditionul to traditional
d. No change needs to be made
c. Change traditionul to traditional
Use a dictionary!!!!!
The other two options do not use subject-verb agreement
You may prefers and just to climbing
What change should be made in this sentence?
It is amazing how dolphins play with bubble rings.
a. Change bubble to buble
b. Change dolphins to dolfins
c. Change play to plays
d. Make no change
d. Make no change
What change, if any, needs to be made in this sentence?
Dolphins even find ways to entertain themselfs under the water.
a. Change find to found
b. Change entertain to entertaining
c. Change themselfs to themselves
d. No change should be made
c. Change themselfs to themselves
It follows the f to v spelling rule
What change, if any, should be made to this sentence:
This makes it a greatest spot for someone who is looking for a more active setting.
a. Change makes to make
b. Change greatest to great
c. Insert a comma after spot
d. No change needs to be made in this sentence.
b. Change greatest to great
When the article adjective a is used, the superlative ending in -est is not needed. It would need to use the article adjective the instead.
What change should be made in this sentence:
Leaves brush against your windows and the chirps of birds echo through your room.
a. Change leaves to leafes
b. Change brush to brushes
c. Insert a comma after windows
d. Change through to threw
c. Insert a comma after windows
This is a compound sentence with two subjects and two predicates. The leaves brush and the chirps echo
(a) is incorrect because of the f to v spelling rule
(b) would not keep subject-verb agreement if it read "leaves brushes"
(d) would be the wrong homophone because the sentence is talking about traveling THROUGH instead of the act of THROWING something
What change, if any, needs to be made in this sentence:
They have been seen trying to catch a bubble ring or move it around without braking it.
a. Change catch to caught
b. Insert a comma after ring
c. Change braking to breaking
d. No change should be made
c. Change braking to breaking
Brake is referring to the part of a vehicle that stops it, like a brake on a bike.
Break is the action of popping the bubble
What change should be made in this sentence:
The bubbles causes the fish to move towards the surface of the water and scatter.
a. Change causes to cause
b. Change surface to surfase
c. Insert a comma after water
d. Change scatter to scater
a. Change causes to cause
The subject and verb must agree - bubbles cause not bubbles causes
What change needs to be made in sentence 5:
4 Many people love tree houses. 5 Some people like them so much that we created tree house hotels for guests.
a. Change like to likes
b. Change we to they
c. Change created to creating
d. No change needs to be made
b. Change we to they
The text is written from 3rd person point of view. The pronoun "we" includes the person writing and the student who wrote this piece is NOT building the tree house hotels.
What change, if any should be made in this sentence?
Either way, tree houses provide a great way to enjoy nature.
a. Change provide to providing
b. Change a to an
c. Change enjoy to injoy
d. No change is needed
d. No change is needed
houses providing does not have proper subject-verb agreement
an great is not needed since great start with the g sound
injoy is the wrong spelling according to the dictionary
What change should be made in sentence 20:
20 Some experts were thinking that dolphins also use bubble rings to help them hunt for food. 21 Dolphins swim beneath the fish and send up bubbles
a. Change experts to Experts
b. Change were thinking to think
c. Change help to helps
d. Change hunt to hunting
b. Change were thinking to think
This text is written in present tense, not past tense.
What change, if any, should be made in this sentence?
Unlike fish, dolphins are mammals, that breathe air.
a. Change are to were
b. Delete the comma after mammals
c. Change that to they
d. No change should be made
b. Delete the comma after mammals
The phrase that breathe air does not need to be separated from the rest of the sentence
What is the correct way to write sentence 22?
a. The Frio River Treetop is closer. To home, it is located near Leakey, Texas.
b. The Frio River Treetop is closer to home. It is located near Leakey, Texas.
c. The Frio River Treetop is closer to home as a result it is located, near Leakey, Texas.
d. The Frio River Treetop is closer to home it is located near Leakey, Texas.
b. The Frio River Treetop is closer to home. It is located near Leakey, Texas.
Choice (a) contains a fragment and choice (c) is a run-on sentence because of the phrase "as a result"
What change should be made to this sentence:
In Sweden their is a tree house hotel that is shaped like a bird's nest.
a. Change their to there
b. Insert a comma after hotel
c. Change shaped to shape
d. Change bird's to birds
a. Change their to there
It is showing a place, not ownership.
How should this sentence be changed?
Many Scientists have filmed and photographed dolphins playing with bubble rings.
a. Change Scientists to scientists
b. Insert a comma after filmed
c. Change playing to play
d. Change rings to ring
a. Change Scientists to scientists
They are not a proper noun and do not need a capital.
(d) is wrong because you cannot have just one bubble ring for all the dolphins. It needs to be plural rings for plural dolphins
(c) is wrong because it would not keep the subject-verb agreement in saying have filmed and photographed dolphins play with bubble rings
(b) is wrong because the sentence just has a compound predicate - filmed and photographed
What is the correct way to write this sentence.
a. One kind of an air bubble is shaped like a circle and called a bubble ring. Happening to be the perfect sea toy.
b. One kind of air bubble is shaped like a circle, and called a bubble ring. Then it happens to be the perfect sea toy.
c. One kind of air bubble is shaped like a circle, called a bubble ring it happens to be the perfect sea toy.
d. One kind of air bubble is shaped like a circle. It is called a bubble ring, and it happens to be the perfect sea toy.
d. One kind of air bubble is shaped like a circle. It is called a bubble ring, and it happens to be the perfect sea toy.