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What corrections need to be made to this sentence? Mrs. J. Rizzio lives at 842 north Ave.
Capitalize the proper noun North
Correct this sentence.
Sam works at cps energy should.
CPS Energy is an abbreviation it should be capitalized.
True or False
The pronoun "I" should be capitalized?
True
Choose the correct subject verb agreement
Joe and Eric run/runs down the road.
The correct response is
Joe and Eric run.
What change needs to be made to this sentence?
He glanced around the pond until he spotted her starting up the zig zag trail to the fifty-foot ledge.
Change zig zag to zigzag
True or False.
The months of the year, holidays, and days of the week are not to be capitalized.
False
True or false.
Initials like HEB and peoples names should always be capitalized.
True
Choose the correct subject verb agreement
Every Monday, my mom eat/eats cereals for breakfast.
Every Monday, my mom eats cereals for breakfast.
What corrections need to be made to this sentence?
"Sometimes they elect leaders to repersent them, and sometimes they make the decisions themselves."
represent is misspelled
Correct this sentence
Often students like to argue that school is boring and useless, but there argument is invalid.
their not there
There is an adverb that means in or at that place.
Their is the possessive case of the pronoun they, meaning belonging to them.
They’re is a contraction of the words they and are.
Correct the sentence.
Thomas the Park Ranger does an amazing job.
park ranger is not a proper noun it should not be capitalized
Correct the sentence.
My brother mops the floor whenever his dog makes a mess
My brother mops the floor whenever his dog makes a mess.
Read the origin of the word devastate. What information helps the reader understand that it means from the following paragraph?
from Latin de-+ vastare, meaning "to lay waste"
Humans believe that forest fires are devastating. To some species of animals, it is a place full of promise for new life. Animals are able to find new homes, helping restore life to the damaged forest.
1. ruined 2. empty
3. harsh 4. remote
1. ruined
The word cryptic has a Latin root means "hidden." What does it mean in the following paragraph?
Although Mr. Fenn declines to give the exact location of the prize, he has given clues. Fenn gives a cryptic poem as to where the valuables can be found. Lines such as "Begin where warm water halt...not far, but too far to walk." Many treasure hunters have studied the message in hopes of solving the puzzle.
1. Unclear 2. Lengthy
3. Artistic 4. Unusual
Unclear
What corrections need to be made to this sentence?
The Sun was so bright, it's rays blinded me.
it's to its
Its with no apostrophe, on the other hand, is the possessive word, like "his" and "her," for nouns without gender.
It's is a contraction and should be used where a sentence would normally read "it is" or "it has." The apostrophe indicates that part of a word has been removed.
Choose the correct subject verb agreement
The boys enters the house without permission.
The boys enter the house without permission.
The word protrudes has a Latin root, trudere, meaning "to trust."
What does it mean in the following paragraph?
In 2007 the Grand Canyon got a new horseshoe-shaped glass walkway call the Grand Canyon Skywalk, it protrudes 70 feet beyond the canyon wall. People can look through the floor, straight into the canyon below.
Sticks out from an area
Mo, who hardly ever said a word and would do anything anyone ever challenged him to do. "Come on, Mo, not you, to."
The difference between to and too is how they’re used. While both are homonyms (they are pronounced the same).
1. To is a preposition, as in “Let’s go to the mall.”
2. too is an adverb that means “also,” as in “I’ll go to the mall too!”
The word scribe comes from the Latin word scribere, which means "to write."
What does scribe mean in the following paragraph?
Dr. Hickey found a police report given to a scribe in an official historic document about a missing person. It reads: "I learned for a villager that Thomas having set off to the south has not yet returned. I make this report." The scribe file the report.
a person who records messages
Choose the correct subject verb agreement
My friends plans a party for Saturday.
My friends plan a party for Saturday.