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2021 STAAR English 2 - Editing: Sally Ride — The Woman Who Broke the Space Ceiling

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What change is needed in sentence 1?
Insert a comma after NASA
Change idea to ideas
Change becoming to to become
Change incomprehensable to incomprehensible
What change is needed in sentence 12?
Change campaigns to campaign’s
Change advertisements to advertizements
Change realized to realizing
Delete the comma after qualifications
What is the correct way to write sentences 13 and 14?
Ride was accepted into the astronaut program and began preparing for a space mission; trained both physically and mentally.
Ride was accepted into the astronaut program and began preparing for a space mission by training both physically and mentally.
Ride was accepted into the astronaut program and began preparing for a space mission: trained both physically and mentally.
Ride was accepted into the astronaut program and began preparing for a space mission and she training both physically and mentally.
What change is needed in sentence 17?
Change broke free to breaks free
Insert a comma after atmosphere
Change country’s to countries
Insert a comma after ceiling
What change, if any, is needed in sentence 24?
Change becomes to became
Change fierce to feirce
Change advocate to advocates
No change is needed in sentence 24.