Editing and redrafting The 15 questions of lesson 43 «Editing and redrafting» of the English course of Mova's primary school with their options, 86 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: the lesson at school .
t1 Your mate goes "editing is for people who mess up, I'm too good for it." What is the truth? wrong ✗ t2 ★★★ Spellcheck finds no errors in "Their going too the park to sea there friends." How many words are wrong? wrong ✗ t3 In a cartoon, a robot "improves" a story by replacing every word with the longest synonym. What happens? wrong ✗ t4 What would happen if Ruby never read her work aloud? wrong ✗ t5 A Gen Z sister says "Editing your story? That's lowkey nerdy." ("Lowkey" means a bit.) What is the best reply? wrong ✗ t6 A lad from Glasgow, bit gallus ("gallus" means cocky), says "Ma first draft's perfect, nae changes." What would a good editor ask? wrong ✗ t7 ★★★ Which change is an edit, not a proofread? wrong ✗ t8 Your partner writes on your story: "It's bad." Why is it not useful? right ✓ t9 ★★★ A story says: "I runned to the shop and buyed some sweets, then I eat them all." How many verbs need fixing? wrong ✗ t10 A kid in Sydney says "My story's sweet as, no worries." ("Sweet as" means great.) What should she still do? right ✓ t11 Which tool can tell you that "there" should be "their"? wrong ✗ e1 Identify the activity that constitutes proofreading. wrong ✗ · exam e2 Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the practice of professional authors? right ✓ · exam e3 Select the principal limitation of automated spelling correction. right ✓ · exam e4 Ascertain the most appropriate response to feedback received from a classmate. wrong ✗ · exam ← previous
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