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Luis’s teacher has asked students to write a paper on the history of their favorite foods. Luis
decided to write about the history of chocolate chip cookies. He has written a rough draft
and wants you to help him correct and improve it. Read Luis’s paper, and then answer the
questions that follow.
Chocolate Chip Cookies
(1) Have you ever wondered who invented the chocolate chip cookie?
(2) Of all the different kinds of cookies baked, chocolate chip is an
American favorite. (3) The first chocolate chip cookie, one of the most
delicious inventions, was really just an accident. (4) Ruth Wakefield
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and her husband, Kenneth, owned an inn named the Toll House Inn, in
Massachusetts. (5) Ruth was known for the homemade meals she cooked
for her guests. (6) A meatloaf with mashed potatoes dinner was one of
her specialties. (7) Ruth was preparing some of her butter cookies and
decided to try something new. (8) She attempted to make the butter
cookies into chocolate ones by adding tiny pieces of a chocolate bar into
the dough. (9) Ruth believed that the chocolate would melt completely,
resulting in chocolate cookies.
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(10) What she got instead was the creation of the chocolate chip
cookie.
(11) Ruth opened the oven to find that the chocolate hadn’t melted
entirely, and some of it was still in pieces. (12) She serves the cookies to
her guests, who immediately loved the new invention.
(13) After that, people from all around started coming to the toll house
inn just to eat her chocolate chip cookies.
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(14) Ruth went to the Nestle Company with her new recipe.
(15) She had used a Nestle chocolate bar to make the cookies.
(16) The company got permission to put her recipe on the back of
its package, and the rest is history.
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RC 3 (19)(A)(viii)
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Transitions
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What transition word or phrase could BEST be added to the
beginning of sentence 7?
A
Furthermore,
B
In the end,
C
One evening in 1937,
D
For example,
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Analysis
A Choice A is incorrect. The word Furthermore is generally used to introduce
an additional statement or sentence. Since you are looking for a word
or phrase for the beginning of sentence 7, Furthermore would not be
appropriate.
B Choice B is incorrect. The phrase In the end is used to conclude a paragraph
or paper and is not appropriate for the beginning of sentence 7.
C Choice C is correct. The phrase One evening in 1937 is the best beginning
for sentence 7.
D Choice D is incorrect. Sentence 7 does not give an example. The phrase
For example is not appropriate for the sentence.
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RC 3 (19)(A)(i)
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Verbs
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What change, if any, should be made in sentence 12?
F
Change immediately to immediatly
G
Add a comma after cookies
H
Change serves to served
J
Make no change
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Analysis
F Choice F is incorrect. The word immediately is spelled correctly.
G Choice G is incorrect. A comma is not needed after the word cookies.
H Choice H is correct. The paragraph is written in past tense, but the word
serves is in present tense. By changing the word from serves to served, all
of the verbs will be in past tense.
J
Choice J is incorrect. The word serves must be changed to served.
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Capitalization
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What change, if any, should be made in sentence 13?
A
Change coming to comeing
B
Change toll house inn to Toll House Inn
C
Add a comma after eat
D
Make no change
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Analysis
A Choice A is incorrect. This is the correct spelling of the word coming.
B Choice B is correct. The phrase Toll House Inn should be capitalized
because it is a proper noun.
C Choice C is incorrect. A comma after the word eat is not needed.
D Choice D is incorrect. The phrase Toll House Inn should be capitalized
because it is a proper noun.
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RC 3 (19)(A)(vii)
Subordinating Conjunctions
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What is the BEST way to combine sentences 14 and 15?
F
Ruth went to the Nestle Company with her new recipe, but
she had used a Nestle chocolate bar to make the cookies.
G
Ruth went to the Nestle Company with her new recipe,
since she had used a Nestle chocolate bar to make the
cookies.
H
Ruth went to the Nestle Company and with her new recipe
she had used a Nestle chocolate bar.
J
Ruth went to the Nestle Company with her new recipe, she
had used a Nestle chocolate bar to make the cookies.
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Analysis
F Choice F is incorrect. This sentence does not correctly combine the
information from sentences 14 and 15 into one sentence.
G Choice G is correct. The conjunction since means “because” and correctly
combines sentences 14 and 15.
H Choice H is incorrect. This sentence does not correctly combine the
information from sentences 14 and 15 into one sentence.
J
Choice J is incorrect. This is a run on sentence—two independent clauses
connected by only a comma. When you use a comma to connect two
independent clauses, it must be accompanied by a conjunction.
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RC 2 (14)(C)
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Revision
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Which sentence does NOT belong in this paper?
A
Sentence 2
B
Sentence 6
C
Sentence 9
D
Sentence 14
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Analysis
A Choice A is incorrect. Sentence 2 is important to the subject of the paper:
chocolate chip cookies.
B Choice B is correct. Sentence 6 talks about meatloaf and mashed potatoes
and does not contribute to the subject of the paper: chocolate chip cookies.
C Choice C is incorrect. Sentence 9 talks about the process of creating the
chocolate chip cookie. It is an important sentence in the story.
D Choice D is incorrect. Sentence 14 is important because it tells what Ruth
did with her new recipe.
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