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English Grammar Worksheet - Improving A Paragraph Page 4

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Improving a Paragraph

Rewrite the paragraph below making changes as necessary to improve the wording and/or flow.

Day 1

- If you could be any super hero, who would you be?

I would be superman! Superman is able to fly and he has super strength and he has freeze breathe and he has heat

vision! With all of those powers I could do anything I wanted! But I would spend most of my time flying around

stopping criminals and maybe I’d go on a site seeing. Being superman for a day would be amazing!

Suggestions: Avoid redundancy, Reiterate question, spelling, punctuation (proper name)

If I could be any super hero I’d definitely choose Superman. With all the

powers he has such as super strength, flying and heat vision I could do almost

anything I wanted! But, I’d probably spend most of my time like Superman

does, flying around catching bad guys. Of course I’d have to go site seeing

too. Imagine seeing the Statue of Liberty up close or soaring over the great

pyramids. Just thinking about all the possibilities makes me wish I could be

Superman for a day!

Day 2 -

Which chore do you dislike doing the most?

I hate mowing the lawn! At my house we have a chore wheel and it seems like every week I get stuck mowing the

lawn, while my brother Sam only has to take out the garbage which wouldn’t be so bad except our yard is super large

so I end up spending over an hour in the hot sun! Still I guess it’s better than cleaning the litter box!

Suggestions: Reiterate, separate sentences,

The chore I hate doing the most is mowing our lawn! Every week my

brother and I spin our chore wheel and it seems like every week I’m stuck

mowing the lawn while my brother gets to do something simple. The worst

part about mowing our lawn though is how large it is. Every Saturday I end up

spending over an hour in the hot sun pushing around a heavy, noisy, dirty

contraption while my brother gets to stay inside the air conditioned house

washing dishes. Still, I guess it beats cleaning out Mr. Meow’s litter box.

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