Answer the questions about the following paragraph. Use the numbers to help direct you to the right part of the paragraph.
1. Lightning is a fascinating phenomenon. 2. A single bolt of lightning is 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit. 3. A single bolt of lightning is about five times hotter than the surface of the sun. 4. Around the world, lightening strikes more than three million times a day. 5. That’s about forty times per second. 6. It also kills around too thousand people a year. 7. Always respect the power of lightning!
Which of these is the best way to combine sentences 2 and 3?
A single bolt of lightning is 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit, or about five times hotter than the surface of the sun.
CORRECT!
A single bolt of lightning is 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit which makes a single bolt of lightning about five times hotter than the surface of the sun.
A single bolt of lightning is 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and a single bolt of lightning is about five times hotter than the surface of the sun.
What change should be made to sentence 4?
change lightening to lightning
CORRECT!
remove the comma
no change is needed
What change should be made to sentence 5?
no change is needed
CORRECT!
change that’s to thats
change second to secont
What change should be made to sentence 6?
change too to two
CORRECT!
change the period to a question mark
no change is needed