Question
Revising and Editing
Read the selection. Then, choose the best answer to each question. Underlined text in the selection indicates sentences that may require a correction or revision.
Stan Lee: A Real-Life Superhero
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Stanley Lieber, born in New York City in 1922, became the famous comic book writer Stan Lee. He graduated from high school he was only 16. He then got a job as an editorial assistant at Timely Comics. Timely Comics later became Marvel Comics. Lee eventually becomes an editor, comic book writer, and then the publisher.
Lee's first writing assignment was on a Captain America comic book, where he contributed one of the main character’s most memorable traits: Captain America throws his shield so it returns to him like a boomerang. Lee helped create memorable comics—such as The Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, X-Men, Iron Man, and Black Panther—with the help of artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko. There were others, too. Beginning in 1962, Lee, Ditko, and Kirby began to use a team approach to develop the plots in comics. This meant that the comic books were published very quickly.
Lee's characters were different from others because they had human feelings and flaws. He also used what was going on in the world in his stories. He thought it was important to discuss issues like prejudice and substance abuse.
In the late 1990s, when Lee was well into his 70s, he started turning Marvel comics into movies with his own company. His first movies, X-Men and Spider-Man, were very popular and made lots of money. Additionally, he helped create Daredevil, Hulk, and Iron Man. The Walt Disney Company bought Marvel in 2009 and released more movies including Thor, The Avengers, Ant Man, and Black Panther. Lee, even though he was not an actor, made brief appearances in many Marvel movies.
36 Stan Lee was married to his wife Joan from 1947 until her death in 2017. He gave Joan a lot of credit for helping him overcome his doubts. Once, when he was unhappy with his work, Joan asked him, “Why don’t you create one comic you’d be proud of?” He was inspired to write about a family of flawed heroes. The resulting comic, The Fantastic Four, got him excited about creating comics again. The comic is filled with human drama as well as the more typical comic book cliffhangers and superhuman exploits, and their success helped ensure Stan Lee stayed in the trade, where his habit of making innovations became a comic book tradition of their own.
Stan Lee is an inspiration because he changed the comic book business by making the superheroes more human and by turning comics into movies. He showed that superheroes don't have to be perfect—they just have to be interesting.
Choose the revision that corrects the run-on sentence.
A. He graduated from high school. When he was only 16.
B. He graduated from high school, he was only 16.
C. He graduated from high school when he was only 16.
D. He graduated, from high school, he was only 16.
Read the selection. Then, choose the best answer to each question. Underlined text in the selection indicates sentences that may require a correction or revision.
Stan Lee: A Real-Life Superhero
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34
35
Stanley Lieber, born in New York City in 1922, became the famous comic book writer Stan Lee. He graduated from high school he was only 16. He then got a job as an editorial assistant at Timely Comics. Timely Comics later became Marvel Comics. Lee eventually becomes an editor, comic book writer, and then the publisher.
Lee's first writing assignment was on a Captain America comic book, where he contributed one of the main character’s most memorable traits: Captain America throws his shield so it returns to him like a boomerang. Lee helped create memorable comics—such as The Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, X-Men, Iron Man, and Black Panther—with the help of artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko. There were others, too. Beginning in 1962, Lee, Ditko, and Kirby began to use a team approach to develop the plots in comics. This meant that the comic books were published very quickly.
Lee's characters were different from others because they had human feelings and flaws. He also used what was going on in the world in his stories. He thought it was important to discuss issues like prejudice and substance abuse.
In the late 1990s, when Lee was well into his 70s, he started turning Marvel comics into movies with his own company. His first movies, X-Men and Spider-Man, were very popular and made lots of money. Additionally, he helped create Daredevil, Hulk, and Iron Man. The Walt Disney Company bought Marvel in 2009 and released more movies including Thor, The Avengers, Ant Man, and Black Panther. Lee, even though he was not an actor, made brief appearances in many Marvel movies.
36 Stan Lee was married to his wife Joan from 1947 until her death in 2017. He gave Joan a lot of credit for helping him overcome his doubts. Once, when he was unhappy with his work, Joan asked him, “Why don’t you create one comic you’d be proud of?” He was inspired to write about a family of flawed heroes. The resulting comic, The Fantastic Four, got him excited about creating comics again. The comic is filled with human drama as well as the more typical comic book cliffhangers and superhuman exploits, and their success helped ensure Stan Lee stayed in the trade, where his habit of making innovations became a comic book tradition of their own.
Stan Lee is an inspiration because he changed the comic book business by making the superheroes more human and by turning comics into movies. He showed that superheroes don't have to be perfect—they just have to be interesting.
Choose the revision that corrects the run-on sentence.
A. He graduated from high school. When he was only 16.
B. He graduated from high school, he was only 16.
C. He graduated from high school when he was only 16.
D. He graduated, from high school, he was only 16.
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The best revision that corrects the run-on sentence is:
**C. He graduated from high school when he was only 16.**
This option correctly combines the ideas into a single, coherent sentence without creating a run-on.
**C. He graduated from high school when he was only 16.**
This option correctly combines the ideas into a single, coherent sentence without creating a run-on.
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