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"Cat Cafes"

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    STAAR Editing Practice
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  • 14. What change should be made in sentence 2?
    G. Change "isn’t" to "is"
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  • 15. What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 8?
    Change "is" to "are"
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  • 16. What is the correct way to write sentence 11?
    G Cat cafés are exactly what the name suggests: coffee shops that feature real, live cats.
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  • 17. What change, if any, should be made in sentence 16?
    C. Change "friskyness" to "friskiness"
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  • 18. What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 18?
    Change "your" to "their"
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  • 19. What is the correct way to write sentences 23 and 24?
    D. Cat cafés are relatively new to America, but they have been popular in other areas of the world for some time.
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  • 20. What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 27?
    F. Change "lived" to "live"
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  • 21. How should sentence 32 be changed?
    A. Change "parlour" to "Parlour"
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  • 22. What change should be made in sentence 33?
    H. Insert quotation marks before "says"
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  • How can you fix a run-on sentence?
    by adding a comma between them
    by adding a comma and FANBOYS (coordinating conjunction)
    by adding a FANBOYS (coordinating conjunction)
    You don't need to fix a run-on sentence.
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  • How can you fix a run-on sentence?
    by using ending punctuation to turn it into two sentences
    by turning it into a complete sentence and a fragment
    by adding a comma between them
    You don't need to fix a run-on sentence.
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  • How can you fix a run-on sentence?
    by adding a comma between them
    by using a semi-colon between them
    You don't need to fix a run-on sentence.
    by using a semi-colon if the two ideas are closely related
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  • Which of the following is NOT a FANBOYS (coordinating conjunction)?
    so
    because
    or
    and
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  • When is a prepositional phrase a complete sentence?
    when it's a sentence fragment
    when it includes an adjective
    Never - it's a phrase and phrases don't have verbs.
    when it starts with a preposition and ends with a noun
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  • When is it okay to use an apostrophe?
    on verbs that end in "s"
    on words that end in "s"
    for contractions and to show possession (with nouns only)
    with pronouns to show possession
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