Writing CA1 Review

1.

4 points

They wore special hats and thick nets. The nets covered their faces.

What is the BEST way to combine these sentences?

They wore special hats, and they wore thick nets, and they covered their faces.

They wore special hats and thick nets and covered their faces.

They wore special hats and thick nets, the nets covered their faces.

They wore special hats and thick nets that covered their faces.

2.

4 points

Cameron doesnt usually cry, so the tears were a bad sign.

What change, if any, should be made to this sentence?

Make no change

Change were to was

Change doesnt to doesn't

Change usually to usally

3.

4 points

It will then climb onto the branch, and it is in search of insects and also other small creatures to eat.

What is the BEST way to revise this sentence?

It will then climb onto the branch, it is in search of insects, it is also in search of other small creatures to eat.

It will then climb onto the branch in search of insects and other small creatures to eat.

No revision is needed

It will then climb onto the branch in search of insects, also in search of other small creatures to eat.

4.

4 points

How would you get rid of a huge colony of bees!

What change, if any, should be made to the following sentence?

Change you to yourself

Change the exclamation point to a question mark

Make no change

Change How to how

5.

4 points

Dr Wong carefully sewed up the cut.

What change, if any, should be made to the sentence?

Make no change

Change the period to a comma

Change sewed to sewn

Change Dr to Dr.

6.

4 points

The nurse in the emergency room studied the cut careful.

What change should be made to the sentence?

Change nurse to Nurse

Change the cut to it

Change careful to carefully

Change studied to studyed

7.

4 points

My mom desided to call some local beekeepers.

What change, if any, is needed in the sentence?

Change mom to Mom

Change desided to decided

Change TO CALL to TOO CALL

Make no change

8.

4 points

On saturday the beekeepers came to our house.

What change, if any, should be made to the following sentence?

Change saturday to Saturday

Change came to come

Insert they after beekeepers

Make no change

9.

4 points

It must have been hard to dig through the dry, packed dirt
under there.

The meaning of the sentence can be improved by changing THERE to —

the fence

the dog

the dirt

it

10.

4 points

The workers had a special vacuum it sucked the bees into a box.

What revision is needed?

The workers had a special vacuum. And sucked the bees into a box.

The workers had a special vacuum they sucked into a box with bees.

The workers having a special vacuum. It sucked the bees into a box.

The workers had a special vacuum that sucked the bees into a box.

11.

4 points

But after a minute Cameron couldn’t even fell it when the doctor touched her finger.

What change should be made to the sentence?

Change couldn't to could'nt

Change touched to touching

Change fell to feel

Change even to hardly

12.

4 points

He then climbed inside he made his way across a lake.

What revision, if any, is needed to the following sentence?

He then climbed inside. And made his way across a lake.

He then climbed inside and made his way. Across a lake.

No revision is needed.

He then climbed inside and made his way across a lake.

13.

4 points

Do you think the concrete kept Rosie in our backyard.

What change, if any, should be made to the sentence?

Change you to I

Change kept to keeped

Change the period to a question mark

Make no change

14.

4 points

Businesses are decorated with them and schools, too.

What is the BEST way to revise the following sentence?

Businesses are decorated with them, schools are decorated with them.

Businesses and schools are decorated with them.

Businesses are decorated with them. And schools, too.

Businesses and schools, they are decorated with them.

15.

4 points

One boater commented “It’s something fun to do with pumpkins other than carve them.”

What change, if any, should be made in the sentence?

Insert a comma after COMMENTED

Change IT'S to ITS

Delete the quotation marks at the end of the sentence

Make no change

16.

4 points

Within a few days a new hole would appeer.

What change, if any, should be made in the sentence?

Make no change

Change new to knew

Insert it after hole

Change appeer to appear

17.

4 points

And brought her inside and made her a house dog.

What revision is needed for this sentence?

We brought her inside and made her a house dog.

We brought her inside, we made her a house dog.

We brought her inside. To make her a house dog.

No revision is needed.

18.

4 points

I can’t say that I was sad when the beekeepers left with there boxes.

What change, if any, should be made to the sentence?

Change there to their

Make no change

Change can't to cant

Change left to leave

19.

4 points

Their clever idea gained the attention of several reporters.

What change, if any, should be made to the following sentence?

Change reporters to Reporters

Make no change

Change Their to His

Change several to sevral

20.

4 points

Others, however, is enormous.

What change, if any, should be made to the sentence?

Change ENORMOUS to ENORMOUSLY

Change IS to ARE

Change OTHERS to OTHER'S

Make no change

21.

4 points

The festive orange fruits they are a familiar symbol of the fall season.

What change, if any, should be made to the following sentence?

Delete THEY

Change are to were

Change season to Season

Make no change

22.

4 points

She was a year old before we learned about her unusual skill.

What revision, if any, is needed in the sentence?

No revision is needed.

She was a year old, then we learned about her unusual skill.

She was a year old. Before we learned about her unusual skill.

She was a year old before we learned about it. Her unusual skill.

23.

4 points

Whenever we did put her outside, she didn’t try to escape or get out anymore.

What is the BEST way to rewrite the idea in the sentence?

Whenever we did put her outside, she didn’t try. To escape or get out anymore.

Whenever we did put her outside. She didn’t try to get out anymore.

Whenever we did put her outside, she didn’t try to escape anymore.

Whenever we did put her outside, she didn’t try to escape. Or try to get out anymore.

24.

4 points

Did you know, for example, that there is a fish that can climb trees.

What change, if any, should be made to the sentence?

Change KNOW to NO

Change IS to ARE

Change the period to a question mark

Make no change

25.

4 points

She had to be very still the doctor gave her little shots in her finger.

What revision is needed to the sentence?

She had to be very still, the doctor gave her little shots in her finger.

She had to be very still while the doctor gave her little shots in her finger.

She had to be very still. Since the doctor gave her little shots in her finger.

No revision is needed.