Everyday Edits Sandra Day O'Connor Sandra Day O’Connor was born on March 26, 1930, in El Paso, Texas. She spent her early childhood living on her parents ranch in Arizona. When she was school age, her parents send her to live with her grandmother in Texas so she could attend a elite private school. After recieving her law degree from Stanford University, she accepted a position as an unpayed county attorney because female attorneys had very limited job prospects at that time. O’Connor later worked at a private law firm for a few years before eventualy returning to public service. She served as an assistant attorney general, state senator, and county and state court judge in Arizona. In 1981, President Ronald Reagan nominated her to the supreme court. The U. S. Senate unanimously approved her appointment making her the first female to serve on the highest court in the country.

The paragraph above tells about an important date in March. Can you find and mark ten errors in the paragraph? You might look for errors of capitalization, punctuation, spelling, or grammar.

The town should regulate the height of buildings allowed on main street. this would be categorized as a: a. claim of fact. b. claim of policy. c. claim of cause and effect. d. claim of definition.

Which statements about the controlling idea of a text are true? check all that apply.

Which sentence in this excerpt from leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich suggests that ivan ilyich aspired to be part of the elite in society from a young age? a.ivan ilyich was  le phenix de la famille  as people said.  he was neither as cold and formal as his elder brother nor as wild as the younger, but was a happy mean between them—an intelligent polished, lively and agreeable man.b.  even when he was at the school of law he was just what he remained for the rest of his life:   a capable, cheerful, good-natured, and sociable man, though strict in the fulfillment of what he considered to be his duty:   and he considered his duty to be what was so considered by those in authority.c.neither as a boy nor as a man was he a toady, but from early youth was by nature attracted to people of high station as a fly is drawn to the light, assimilating their ways and views of life and establishing friendly relations with them.d.all the enthusiasms of childhood and youth passed without leaving much trace on him; he succumbed to sensuality, to vanity, and latterly among the highest classes to liberalism, but always within limits which his instinct unfailingly indicated to him as correct.e.at school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them;