Land, Water, and Air

Monday

Subject-verb Agreement, Using the Right Word, Comma (Unnecessary), Apostrophe (Possessive)

Original Sentence

Did you no, a yaks milk are pink?

Corrected Sentence

Did you know a yak's milk is pink?

Numbers, Subject-verb Agreement, Using the Right Word

Original Sentence

Our biology teacher learned us that vampire bats drinks up to 46 pints of blood in 1 year.

Corrected Sentence

Our biology teach taught us that vampire bats drink up to 46 pints of blood in one year.

Tuesday

Using the Right Word, Apostrophe, Hyphen

Original Sentence

The bee hummingbird lies an egg thats about one third of an inch long.

Corrected Sentence

The bee hummingbird lays an egg that's about one-third of an inch long.

Wednesday

Comma (to separate phrases and clauses), Misplaced Modifier, Capitalization

Original Sentence

The Pacific leatherback turtle is the largest sea turtle known to Marine biologists weighing up to 1,000 pounds.

Corrected Sentence

Weighing up to 1,000 pounds, the Pacific leatherback turtle is the largest sea turtle known to marine biologists.

Thursday

Using the right word, double negative, apostrophe, double subject

Original Sentence

The crocodile it doesnt never chew its food - it swallows it hole.

Corrected Sentence

A crocodile doesn't (or) ever chew its food - it swallows it whole.

Friday

Apostrophe (2), Using the Right Word (2), Double Subject (1), Comma (unnecessary)(1), Hyphen for single-thought adjectives (3), Misplaced Modifier (1) - The number of mistakes is in parentheses. 

Original Paragraph

    Sea turtles dont have an easy start in life, of which there are seven species.  The female sea turtles travel great distances to lie their eggs on shores, wear they were born.  Once the eggs are laid, various animals and birds they try to eat them.  As soon as the turtles hatch, theyve got a long distance race to the ocean.  Along the way, and even after reaching the water, predators threaten their survival.  Fortunately, many sea turtles survive even against these not so great odds.

Corrected Paragraph

Sea turtles, of which there are seven species, don't have an easy start in life.  The female sea turtles travel great distances to lay their eggs on the shores where they were born.  Once the eggs are laid, various animals and birds try to eat them.  As soon as the turtles hatch, they've got a long-distance race to the ocean.  Along the way, and even after reaching the water, predators threaten their survival.  Fortunately, many sea turtles survive even against these not-so-great odds.

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