Sentence Revision and Editing Flashcards

Which revision corrects the run-on: "The meeting ran late everyone was exhausted"?

Answer: The meeting ran late, so everyone was exhausted.

A comma plus the conjunction "so" properly joins two independent clauses.

Select the correct verb tense: "By the time we arrived, the show ____ already begun."

Answer: had

The past perfect "had begun" shows an action completed before another past action.

Which sentence correctly uses an apostrophe?

Answer: The dog wagged its tail happily.

"Its" is the possessive form; "it's" means "it is."

Choose the best revision to eliminate redundancy: "He returned back to the office at 9 a.m. in the morning."

Answer: He returned to the office at 9 a.m.

"Returned" already implies "back," and "9 a.m." already means morning.

Which sentence places the modifier "only" correctly to mean she ate just the salad?

Answer: She ate only the salad.

Placing "only" before "the salad" limits what she ate.

Select the sentence with correct capitalization.

Answer: We visited the Pacific Ocean last summer.

Proper nouns like "Pacific Ocean" are capitalized, but seasons are not.

Which transition best fits: "The recipe looked simple; ____, it took three hours to make"?

Answer: however

"However" signals the contrast between looking simple and taking long.