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Let’s edit to help IMPROVE our writing!

WAHOO!

GRAMMAR ROCKS!!

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It’s a cinch…just:

(1). Read the following sentence.

(2). Rewrite it correctly fixing the mistakes.

(3). CIRCLE your corrections!

Hint: There are SIX corrections.

jacki robinson the first African American major-league baseball player played his first game with the brooklyn dodgers in 1947.

Check your answer… how did you do?

Jacki Robinson, the first African American major-league baseball player, played his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

Hint: There are FIVE errors.

Would you believe that over 7000 years ago Ancient egyptians liked to bowl on alleys alot like ours.

Hint: There are FIVE errors.

Would you believe that over 7,000 years ago ancient Egyptians liked to bowl on alleys a lot like ours?

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

Before players begun wearing safety gear football produced so many injurys that Colleges often banned the game.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

Before players began wearing safety gear, football produced so many injuries that colleges often banned the game.

Hint: There are THREE errors.

Jerry Rice hold the nfl record for touchdowns: two hundred five.

Hint: There are THREE errors.

Jerry Rice holds the NFL record for touchdowns: 205.

Hint: There are THREE errors.

Until 1892 all professional boxing matches was slugged out with bear fists.

Hint: There are THREE errors.

Until 1892, all professional boxing matches were slugged out with bare fists.

Hint: There are FIVE errors.

Ill bet you didn’t no that youll sleep through one third of you’re life.

Hint: There are FIVE errors.

I’ll bet you didn’t know that you’ll sleep through one-third of your life.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

canned foods was first developed in order to feed napoleans army.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

Canned foods were first developed in order to feed Napolean’s army.

Hint: There are FIVE errors.

During the middle ages in england beer was oftenest served with breakfast.

Hint: There are FIVE errors.

During the Middle Ages in England, beer was most often served with breakfast.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

in china brides traditionally adorn their selves in bright red.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

In China, brides traditionally adorn themselves in bright red.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

When a dessert lizard sense danger it vibrates too instantly sink beneath the sand.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

When a desert lizard senses danger, it vibrates to instantly sink beneath the sand.

Hint: There are FIVE errors.

Would you beleive a catapillar have about 4000 muscles in it’s body?

Hint: There are FIVE errors.

Would you believe a caterpillar has about 4,000 muscles in its body?

Hint: There are FIVE errors.

A mosquitos wings beats about 1000 times a second the annoying hum comes from it’s beating wings.

Hint: There are FIVE errors.

A mosquito’s wings beat about 1,000 times a second; the annoying hum comes from its beating wings.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

When a llama get mad it spits thick bad-smelling saliva into its enemies face.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

When a llama gets mad, it spits thick, bad-smelling saliva into its enemy’s face.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

When a llama gets mad, it spits thick, bad-smelling saliva into its enemy’s face.

Hint: There are THREE errors.

Lobsters walks around on 8 legs just as spider’s do.

Hint: There are THREE errors.

Lobsters walk around on eight legs just as spiders do.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

A baby squirel is born with its eyes closed and it keeps them closed four about a month

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

A baby squirrel is born with its eyes closed, and it keeps them closed for about a month.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

Starfish dont have no legs but they can creep around on alot of little tube feet.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

Starfish don’t have legs, but they can creep around on a lot of little tube feet.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

The most largest bird is the Ostrich it weigh as much as 300 pounds.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

The largest bird is the ostrich; it weighs as much as 300 pounds.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

Ostriches cant fly but it can run as fast as forty miles per hour.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

Ostriches can’t fly, but they can run as fast as 40 miles per hour.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

Are rhinoceros horns which both male and female have mades of hardened hare?

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

Really, are rhinoceros horns, which both male and female rhinoceros have, made of hardened hair?

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

Dolphins one of the mostly intelligent creatures on this earth lives in the ocean.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

Dolphins, one of the most intelligent creatures on this earth, live in the ocean.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

Pluto the most small planet in our solar system travel around the sun every 248 years.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

Pluto, the smallest planet in our solar system, travels around the sun every 248 years.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

It takes the moon a little more than twenty-seven day’s about a month to orbit Earth.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

It takes the moon a little more than 27 days, about a month, to orbit Earth.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

Earth move threw space at sixty six thousand seven hundred miles per hour

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

Earth moves through space at 66,700 miles per hour.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

If you had read the assignment you would of discovered that skin are the larger organ of the human body.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

If you had read the assignment, you would have discovered that skin is the largest organ of the human body.

Hint: There are THREE errors.

You’re sense of smell is the first sense to go to sleep at night and the last one that wakes up in the mourning.

Hint: There are THREE errors.

Your sense of smell is the first sense to go to sleep at night and the last one to wake up in the morning.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

The harder bone in the Human body are the jawbone; or mandible.

Hint: There are THREE errors.

The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone, or mandible.

Hint: There are SIX errors.

Albert einstein a brilliant german-born physicist discovered that the force of Gravity can bend light.

Hint: There are SIX errors.

Albert Einstein, a brilliant, German-born physicist, discovered that the force of gravity can bend light.

Hint: There are FIVE errors.

Honey is sweet, nutritious, and spoilage is never a problem it’s an favorite food of bears badgers and humans, to.

Hint: There are FIVE errors.

Honey is sweet, nutritious, and never spoils; it’s a favorite food of bears, badgers and humans, too.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

A disease called ichthyosis turn human skin scaly as a fishs this disease is hereditary.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

A disease called ichthyosis turns human skin scaly like a fish’s; this disease is hereditary.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

Action speak more louder then words’.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

Actions speak louder than words.

Hint: There are THREE errors.

The only way to have an friend are to be 1.

Hint: There are THREE errors.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Hint: There are SIX errors.

Advice is something the wise dont never need and Fools wont never take.

Hint: There are SIX errors.

Advice is something the wise don’t need, and fools won’t take.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

Everything have it’s beauty but not everyone see it.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Hint: There are FIVE errors.

Wow, the empire state building has 10,000,000 bricks in their structure!

Hint: There are FIVE errors.

Wow, the Empire State Building has 10 million bricks in its structure!

Hint: There are FIVE errors.

Of all the states in are country alaska have the most longest coastline and the smallest population.

Hint: There are FIVE errors.

Of all the states in our country, Alaska has the longest coastline and the smallest population.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

The boot of italy look as though it kick the island of sicily.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

The boot of Italy looks as though it kicks the island of Sicily.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

In the year of 2050 paris is 2099 years old.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

In the year 2050, Paris will be 2,099 years old..

Hint: There are FIVE errors.

Jamaica is a island that lays ninety miles South of cuba.

Hint: There are FIVE errors.

Jamaica is an island that lies 90 miles south of Cuba..

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

China has the larger population of any country in the world, more then a billion people live their.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

China has the largest population of any country in the world; more than a billion people live there.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

The persian gulf contain extremely salty water and isn’t more then 100 feet deep at any point.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

The Persian Gulf contains extremely salty water and isn’t more than 100 feet deep at any point.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

It is dark 24 hours a day four one hundred eighty six days of the year at the north pole.

Hint: There are FOUR errors.

It is dark 24 hours a day for 186 days of the year at the North Pole.

Hint: There are THREE errors.

Mesopotamians who lived in what is today called iraq developed written language around 3500 B.C.E.

Hint: There are THREE errors.

Mesopotamians, who lived in what is today called Iraq, developed written language around 3500 B.C.E.

Hint: There are THREE errors.

When Alexander the great died his body was preserved in a big pot of honey

Hint: There are THREE errors.

When Alexander the Great died, his body was preserved in a big pot of honey.

Hint:

Constantine the Great was the first roman emperor to declare his self a christian, Christianity then becomed legal in Rome in 313.

Hint:

Constantine the Great was the first Roman emperor to declare himself a Christian; Christianity then became legal in Rome in 313.

Hint:

The hundred Years War which lasted from 1337to 1453 was an English-French conflict fought four control of france.

Hint:

The Hundred Years’ War, which lasted from 1337 to 1453, was an English-French conflict fought for control of France.

Hint:

Joan Of Arc a famous French Warrior in the Hundred Years’ War was considered a heretic, tried for this crime, and burned at the Stake in 1431.

Hint:

Joan of Arc, a famous French Warrior in the Hundred Years’ War, was considered a heretic, tried for this crime, and burned at the stake in 1431.

Hint:

Elizabeth I was queen of england she was completly bald at the age of 29 and always wore a red wig.

Hint:

Elizabeth I was queen of England; she was completely bald at the age of 29 and always wore a red wig.

Hint:

The first british theater know simply as the theatre were built outside London in 1576.

6 corrections

The first British theater, known simply as The Theatre, was built outside London in 1576.

Hint:

The Great Plague breaked out in london in 1656 it killed 75000 people between July and October.

3 corrections

The Great Plague broke out in London in 1656; it killed 75,000 people between July and October.

___ corrections

In 1812 napolean invades Russia but only 20,000 of his 60,000 men survived the russian winter.

5 corrections

In 1812, Napolean invaded Russia, but only 20,000 of his 60,000 men survived the Russian winter.

__ corrections

Photography were invented buy french painter Louis Daguerre in 1839.

4 corrections

Photography was invented buy French painter, Louis Daguerre, in 1839.

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In 1912 the titanic the larger ocean liner of it’s time hit an iceberg and sinked in the freezing northern waters of the Atlantic.

7 corrections

In 1912, the Titanic, the largest ocean liner of its time, hit an iceberg and sank in the freezing northern waters of the Atlantic.

___ corrections

In the year after world war I ended Adolf hitler becomed a member of Germanys Nazi Party.

6 corrections

In the year after World War I ended, Adolf Hitler became a member of Germany’s Nazi Party.

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In 1971, Switzerland which is located at the Southeastern border of Germany became the last Western nation too give women the rite to vote.

5 corrections

In 1971, Switzerland, which is located at the southeastern border of Germany, became the last Western nation to give women the right to vote.

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The national cancer institute say that 70% of the plants useful in treating cancer come from rain forests.

5 corrections

The National Cancer Institute says that 70 percent of the plants useful in treating cancer come from rain forests.

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100 lbs. of rainwater are needed to produce 1 pound of grain from the earth.

4 corrections

One hundred pounds of rainwater is needed to produce one pound of grain from the Earth.

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The enviromental protection agency (epa) were founded in 1970.

5 corrections

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were founded in 1970.

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If american’s carpooled regularly more then 600,000 gallons of gas cold be saved every day.

4 corrections

If Americans carpooled regularly, more than 600,000 gallons of gas cold be saved every day.

___ corrections

Did you no that the average american Office Worker throw away 180 lbs. of paper every year.

6 corrections

Did you know that the average American office worker throws away 180 pounds of paper every year.

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Are Science teacher mentioned last weak that the worlds population has more then doubled since 1950.

4 corrections

Our science teacher mentioned last week that the world’s population has more than doubled since 1950.

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It has been estimated that american’s throw away twenty eight million tons of branchs mowed grass and dead leafs every year.

8 corrections

It has been estimated that Americans throw away 28 million tons of branches, mowed grass, and dead leaves every year.

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American’s uses about 8 times more fuel energy then people anywhere else in the world.

4 corrections

Americans use about eight times more fuel energy than people anywhere else in the world.