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What does ARMS stand for?
Add

Remove

Move

Substitute

100

Is revising CUPS or Arms? How did you know?

ARMS



Revising is looking at big changes. How the paragraph and story sounds.

100
Is Editing CUPS or ARMS?
CUPS


Editing is focusing on grammatically issues. How the sentences and paragraph look.

100
What kind of punctuation is used for dialogue?
"Quotations/dialogue go inside quotation marks."
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What type of sentence is this? How did you know


After I brush my teeth, it is time to go to bed.

Complex sentence.


The sentence has a dependent clause "After I brush my teeth" followed by an independent clause "It is time to go to bed."

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What does CUPS stand for?
Capitalization

Usage

Punctuation

Spelling

200
Which sentence does not belong? Why?


Manchester United is the greatest soccer team in the world. They have won the league 20 times. This year Manchester United will finish second. I hate Manchester City.

The last sentence is off topic.


Even though, I really do hate Manchester City.

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What is wrong in this sentence? How can you fix it.


Please go sit over their.

Change their to there.


Their is possession.

There is a place.

200
Is the punctuation in this sentence correct?


"Let's go" Mark said.

No.


There should be a comma after go.

200
What kind of sentence is this? How did you know?


You bring the bread, and I will bring the milk.

This is a compound sentence.


There is a subject and predicate on both sides of the FANBOY.

300
What does ARMS stand for?
Add

Remove

Move

Substitute

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Zoey does not like the tone of this sentence. Which word could she change? What would she change it to?


The President of the United States is a cool job.

We should change the word cool.


We could change it to: important, stressful, difficult, and demanding.

300
What is wrong with this sentence? How can you fix it?


Next weekend the students prepares for the STAAR test.

The subject and the verb don't agree.


prepares should be prepare

300
The following sentence doesn't have correct punctuation. Fix it.


As soon as the rain stops let's go to the movies.

Add a comma after stop's. 


As soon as the rain stops is a dependent clause.

Let's go to the movies is an independent clause. 

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Is this a compound sentence? How do you know?


Mark and Dave went to the movies and the mall.

This is a compound subject and a compound predicate.


Mark and Dave are the subject.

Went to the movies and the mall is the predicate.

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Before you read the passage what should you do first?
Read the instructions and the introduction. Circle sentence numbers. CUPS and ARMS. Circle the main Idea/Topic.
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Look at sentence 11. The phrase can be good for does not express what Lily was trying to say. Which word could BEST replace can be good for to improve the meaning of this sentence?

(10) Lemurs have large eyes that allow them to see in the dark.(11) This feature can be good for the lemur species that are active at night. (12) Many lemurs eat coconuts, too.

 A allows

 B helps

 C develops

 D shows


 B helps

The sentence is saying that having big eyes can help the lemur because they are active at night.

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What is wrong with this sentence? How can you fix it?


I wonder how many puppys live in Texas.

Puppys is incorrect.


The plural of puppy is puppies.

Add a question mark at the end of the sentence.

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The following sentence doesn't have correct punctuation. Fix it.


The most common pets are dogs cats and birds.

This is comma's in a series:


The most common pets are dogs, cats, and birds.

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What kind of sentence is this? How did you know?


I need to clean the garage, wash my car, and go to the gym.

Comma's in a series. I noticed that we were listing things we need to do.
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What are the FANBOYS?
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
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Lily needs to add a sentence to help her readers move from sentence 6 to sentence 7. Which sentence could BEST be added before sentence 7?

(5) This island is the only place on Earth where lemurs live in the wild. (6) Around 30 different species of lemurs live on Madagascar. (7) Some lemurs are the size of house cats. (8) Others, like the sifaka lemur, are even bigger. 

A Lemurs come in all different sizes.

B Lemurs are more intelligent than dogs.

C Like people, lemurs live in families.

D A new lemur species was discovered recently.

A Lemurs come in all different sizes.

Sentence 7 and 8 talk about the size of the lemurs. The sentence we insert must also talk about the sizes.

500

What is wrong with this sentence? How can you fix it?


My favorite city in georgia is blue ridge.

georgia and blue ridge should be capitalized.


Georgia is a state

Blue Ridge is a city in Georgia

500

Something is wrong in the sentence. What is it? Fix it.


Tom and Jerry are not friends but they do star in their own tv show.

This is a compound sentence.


You must add a comma before but.

500
What is wrong with this sentence?


"Watch out," screamed Mark.

Since Mark is screaming, we should change the , to a !


"Watch out!" screamed Mark.