Grade 10 ELA MCAS revising and editing overview quiz quiz

Editing improves ideas; revising fixes spelling

Revising is only for poems

Revising improves ideas, focus, and organization; editing fixes grammar, usage, and mechanics

They are the same

Delete it; it is off-topic and breaks the focus

Add more about pizza

Keep it; it adds interest

Move it to the end

Add a comma

Add a transition that shows how the ideas relate

Capitalize the first word

Delete both sentences

Change 'Neither' to 'Either'

Change 'were' to 'was' (the verb agrees with the nearer subject, 'coach')

Change 'coach' to 'coaches'

No change

Change 'recorded' to 'records'

Delete 'her'

No change

Change 'analyze' to 'analyzed' for consistent past tense

When the rain stopped, we went outside.

The rain stopped we went outside.

The rain stopped, we went outside.

The rain, stopped we went outside.

A comma splice

A fragment

A spelling error

Correct usage

The dog was small the dog was fierce it guarded the yard.

The dog was small, the dog was fierce, it guarded the yard.

The dog. Was small and fierce and guarded the yard.

The small but fierce dog guarded the yard.

The grilled salmon was tender and perfectly seasoned

The food was a thing people liked

The food was good

The food was very, very good

'The results were ok.'

'The results were super duper good.'

'The results were excellent and quite surprising.'

No change

Drag-and-drop

Hot text (selecting text in the passage)

Essay

Multiple choice

Always choose 'no change'

Always choose the longest option

Answer from the underlined sentence alone

Read the surrounding sentences for context, then judge the target

Editing (mechanics)

Neither

Revising (organization)

Spelling