Read the selection and choose the best answer for each question.

Question

Continue reading Arya's article for her school newspaper and look for ways she should correct it. After reading, answer the questions.

From Bed Bound to Breaking Boards [Part 2 - EDITING]

(1) “I’m really very sorry, but I don’t think Kameelah will ever be able to walk again,” the doctor informed her parents. (2) However, Kameelah and her father were unhappy with her grim prediction and refused to accepting she would never walk again. (3) Her father, a registered nurse, insisted that the doctor put her in physical therapy and try to rehabilitate her. (4) But the doctor wouldn’t agree to this arrangement. (5) He said that it were a lost cause. (6) He was positive that Kameelah could never walk again.
(7) “I was really scared. I just remember telling Dad, ‘I have to walk. I have to walk, Dad.’ (8) And he promised me, he swore to me, that I would walk again. (9) He said, just what I needed to hear.”
(10) Her father kept his promise. (11) He brought Kameelah home in a wheelchair, and worked with her. (12) They doing exercises that would have been ridiculously easy for any other person, but they were excruciatingly difficult for Kameelah. (13) Miraculously after a year Kameelah is able to walk, with a walker. (14) After a while she walked confidently and even ran steadily without the walker. (15) Now, at the age of twenty-two, she can execute a flying sidekick with the greatest of ease. (16) “Not bad for someone who was told she would never walk again, huh?” Kameelah laughs as she demonstrates her new kick.

1.
What change, if any, should be made in sentence 3?
A.Delete the comma after father
B.Change insisted to insists
C.Change to to too
D.No change is needed.

2.
What change, if any, should be made in sentence 9?
A.Change said to say
B.Delete the comma after said
C.Change needed to needs
D.No change is needed.

3.
What change should be made in sentence 12?
A.Change doing to did
B.Change exercises to exersizes
C.Delete the comma after person
D.Change were to was

4.
What is the correct way to write sentence 13?
A.Miraculously, after a year, Kameelah were able to walk with a walker.
B.Miraculously, after a year, Kameelah was able to walk with a walker.
C.Miraculously, after a year, Kameelah is able to walk with a walker.
D.Miraculously after a year Kameelah is able to walk with a walker.

Answer 1

1. What change, if any, should be made in sentence 3?
   A. Delete the comma after father

2. What change, if any, should be made in sentence 9?
   D. No change is needed.

3. What change should be made in sentence 12?
   A. Change doing to did

4. What is the correct way to write sentence 13?
   B. Miraculously, after a year, Kameelah was able to walk with a walker.