https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies Access tinyurl.com/Y2-EL-Edit; consider the practice passages and their accompanying attempted in prior lessons; offer universal strategies for common question types that can succor your responses. en-us 2020-09-15 02:25:19 UTC 2025-10-05 11:39:08 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4af.png mr_yan1 https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/746409945 Check immediate surroundings or context—are the tenses all consistent or is that an isolated one that is inconsistent with its cousins?

]]> 2020-09-15 02:25:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/746409945 mr_yan1 https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/746409949 Check timeframe: Is this in the past, present, future, etc.? (Note: Not foolproof; for instance, some writers may represent a past encounter in the present tense to lend their narrative a sense of immediacy and immerse their reader more experientially but good writers—the sort whose work will be used for Editing exercises—will be CONSISTENT and INTENTIONAL with this.)]]> 2020-09-15 02:25:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/746409949 shixuan_wong06 https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749947818 Look at what the verb is referring to, identify whether it is singular or are plural]]> 2020-09-16 00:04:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749947818 falisha_jabbar06 https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749947836 look out for certain fixed words like a number and the number 
a number: needs a plural noun 
a number of people have eaten the pie. 
the number: needs a singular noun 
the number of people has significantly decreased. 
question regarding the editing passage: the number of girls drops steadily, then would it be a number of girls drop steadily ]]> 2020-09-16 00:04:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749947836 https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749948512 Identify whether the subject(s) is singular/ are plural, ensure that the verb ( in this case) corresponds to the singularity of the subject.]]> 2020-09-16 00:04:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749948512 micahelp https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749949729 see if the word is describing a noun that comes before or after it, and thus should be an adjective.]]> 2020-09-16 00:05:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749949729 caitlin_leow06 https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749949993 look out for the keywords that indicate the subject of the sentence (e.g. we, they, I, you) in order to derive the corresponding  pronoun (we - ourselves, they - themselves, I - myself, you - yourself)]]> 2020-09-16 00:05:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749949993 eva_yusoff06 https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749950719 Look out for the words before the preposition  and the subject after the preposition to check if it makes sense. (as sometimes the word before the preposition, the preposition and the word after the preposition can be a phrase) ]]> 2020-09-16 00:06:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749950719 zhiyi_kwee06 https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749950822 Check whether the subject is singular/plural, if the subject is singular, the verb has to be singular too]]> 2020-09-16 00:06:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749950822 https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749951035 -identify subject in the sentence
-check if subject is singular/ plural
-identify which verb is describing the subject
-check the verb if it corresponds with the subject]]> 2020-09-16 00:06:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749951035 micahelp https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749951560 see if the subject is plural or singular, and that the verb follows it.]]> 2020-09-16 00:06:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749951560 levine_chin06 https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749951998 Look for the words before and after, if the word before or after is a noun, the word should be an adjective.]]> 2020-09-16 00:06:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749951998 faithng06_1 https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749952402 check if the word that comes before nouns/noun phrases is an adjective. For verbs, check if it is an adverb. ]]> 2020-09-16 00:07:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749952402 amelia_noo06 https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749952800 identify the subject]]> 2020-09-16 00:07:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749952800 zhiyi_kwee06 https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749952912 See if the subject is an object or a person, if it is an object the adverb would be 'which', if it is a person, the adverb should be 'who']]> 2020-09-16 00:07:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749952912 xinyi_goh06 https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749953132 Check if the object mentioned is related to the subject/pronoun. If it is related, it is "the", but if it is general, like any car, it is "a".]]> 2020-09-16 00:07:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749953132 sophia_ishak06 https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749953594 look out for the order of actions and decide if the reaction is in contrast to the action, or following the action.]]> 2020-09-16 00:07:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749953594 faithng06_1 https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749955416 who - is it referring to a person(and sometimes animals)?
which - is it referring to a non-living object
* animals with names : who
animals without names/in the wild: which
where - for locations]]> 2020-09-16 00:08:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749955416 micahelp https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749956433 see what the adverb is referring to, "who" for human and "which" for non-human beings.]]> 2020-09-16 00:09:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749956433 https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749956543 check the words that come before, if it is a noun, the word should be a adjective


]]> 2020-09-16 00:09:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749956543 https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749957328 Be aware of the different functions of the different punctuation marks, and their intended purpose in the text. e.g semi colons are used to join two independent clauses that are closely related in thought. However, in this sentence, it was used to join one independent clause and one dependent clause. The correct punctuation mark should be the comma.]]> 2020-09-16 00:09:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749957328 zhiyi_kwee06 https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749957430 Look out for the surrounding words of the preposition]]> 2020-09-16 00:09:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749957430 falisha_jabbar06 https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749958533 has the object been mentioned before in the passage --> the car that is owned by Mr Kirby
is it a general object? --> a car that people drive ]]> 2020-09-16 00:10:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749958533 atiqah_moha06 https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749961899 - check if the object has been mentioned previously in the passage]]> 2020-09-16 00:12:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749961899 xinyi_goh06 https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749962080 Look at the subject and pronoun in mention in the sentence initially, and check if the pronoun is corresponding to it.]]> 2020-09-16 00:12:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749962080 caitlin_leow06 https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749962891 determine the relationship of the sentences before and after the conjunction and check if they are contrasting or complementary to one another.]]> 2020-09-16 00:12:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749962891 falisha_jabbar06 https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749963572 difference between who and whom: whom should be between two nouns. that is the boy who ate my pie vs that is the boy whom pie i ate. ]]> 2020-09-16 00:13:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749963572 https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749966536 -identify the subject which has already been stated in the passage before
-check if the subject is singular/ plural
-identify the deteminer
-check if it corresponds with the subject]]> 2020-09-16 00:14:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749966536 raeann_chia06 https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749968493 who vs whom vs whose:
who - followed by verb
whom - followed by subject
whose - followed by possession

which - usually used for non-humans]]> 2020-09-16 00:15:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749968493 faithng06_1 https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749968893 https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/]]> 2020-09-16 00:16:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_yan1/203_editing_strategies/wish/749968893