Directions: Each of the underlined word groups contains one or more errors. As you locate and identify each error, write its item number on the appropriate line below. Then, edit the underlined word groups to correct the errors. Two fragments Two verb problems
Two run-ons Four subject-verb
agreement errors

1 Every time you step outside, you are under attack. 2 Which you may not
know what is hitting you, but the attack is truly happening. 3 Invisible storms
of sky dust rain down on you all the time. 4 It does not matter if the sun is
shining and the sky are bright blue. 5 The dust is still there.
6 Sky dust consist of bug parts, specks of hair, pollen, and even tiny chunks
of comets. 7 According to experts, 6 million pounds of space dust settle on
the earth’s surface every year. 8 You will never notice it, scientists, however,
are collecting it in order to learn more about weather patterns and pollution.
9 Using sophisticated equipment like high-tech planes and sterile filters to
collect dust samples.
10 Dan Murray, a geologist at the University of Rhode Island, has began a
new project that invites students and teachers to help collect samples of cosmic
dust. 11 Murray says that collecting the dust particles are quite simple. 12 It
starts with a researcher setting up a small, inflatable swimming pool. 13 Next,
this investigator leaves the pool out in the open for 48 hours. 14 Finally, the
researcher uses a special type of tape to pick up whatever have settled over time.
15 The tape is put into a beaker of water to dissolve a microscope is used to
analyze what comes off the tape. 16 The information finded there will help
scientists predict insect seasons, measure meteor showers, or even catch signs
of global warming.

When a text is organized according to what happened first in the story in time order, this is known as what kind of structure?

Read the excerpt from the war of the worlds, in which the crowd begins to disperse just before the first martian exits the cylinder.when i returned to the common the sun was setting. scattered groups were hurrying from the direction of woking, and one or two persons were returning. the crowd about the pit had increased, and stood out black against the lemon yellow of the sky—a couple of hundred people, perhaps. there were raised voices, and some sort of struggle appeared to be going on about the pit. strange imaginings passed through my mind. as i drew nearer i heard stent's voice: "keep back! keep back! "a boy came running towards me."it's a-movin'," he said to me as he passed; 'a-screwin' and a-screwin' out. i don't like it. i'm a-goin' 'ome, i am."what options accurately depict the impact of the boy's words on pacing within the excerpt? (select all that apply.)the war of the worldsthe setting is in england, so the boy's words provide the reader with the dialect of the area. even though that slows down the plot, the boy's words contain important information.the plot's forward movement is slow at the beginning of the excerpt because there is little action. the boy's words increase the tension and counteract that lag.the narrator is not close enough to see clearly into the pit, so the boy's words provide the narrator with the information he needs, which moves the plot forward.the boy's words serve to speed up the pacing of the plot because, as he is talking to the narrator, he is running past him to get away.the narrator is not close enough to see clearly into the pit, so the boy's words provide the narrator with the information he needs, which moves the plot forward.wrong? the boy's words serve to speed up the pacing of the plot because, as he is talking to the narrator, he is running past him to get away.

Both squeaky and gretchen are talented runners and want to win the may day race. what part of the plot does this statement describe