Writing About Your Life: Revise: Homework

Part A — Key Words / 4

Type the word that fits each clue.

• 1.

  To improve a draft after you've written it, by changing what doesn't work, is to do what?Answer

• 2.

  A partner reads your draft and tells you what works and what doesn't. What is it called?Answer

• 3.

  A group of words with a subject and a verb that can stand alone as a sentence is what?Answer

• 4.

  A group of words with a subject and a verb that begins with a word like when and can't stand alone is what?Answer

Part B — Show What You Know / 5

Short answers. Think about why.

• 1.

  Which job only fixes mistakes, revising or proofreading?Answer

• 2.

  Why put a draft aside before you revise it?Answer

• 3.

  Name one of the six checks.Answer

• 4.

  Name one word that starts a time or place clause.Answer

• 5.

  When the subordinate clause comes first, what goes after it?Answer

Part C — Put It to Work / 5

A new draft to revise.

• 1.

  The draft: 1: I dropped the tray. 2: The lunchroom went quiet. 3: My sister has a red backpack. 4: I felt my face burn. 5: I picked it up.

  a. Which line doesn't belong, so you'd cut it?Answer

  b. Which of the partner's four questions would have caught it?Answer

  c. Join lines 1 and 2, time word first. Which time word would you use?Answer

  d. In After I dropped the tray, the lunchroom went quiet, which part can't stand alone?Answer

  e. In that same sentence, after which word does the comma go?Answer

Part D — Think It Through / 2

Answer each one in one sentence. You mark these yourself against the key.

• 1.

  Join these two sentences with a time word: The bell rang. We lined up.Answer

• 2.

  Why shouldn't you join every short sentence in a draft?Answer

Hold the draft up to the six checks, then fold short sentences together with a time word. Copyright © NexEdge Studios