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chapters sixteen

think about it
why is caroline okay with being interviewed by reeltok?

how are the details in chapter sixteen important to plot development?

conventions of standard english
read the following passage. rewrite the passage, adding or removing punctuation and making grammatical corrections where needed. when done, double check your edits with the passage in the book.

reeltok: its all about priorities people call new york a cesspool, but new yorkers would never knuckle under too intolerance and let some lowlife get away with drawing swastikas. page 109

Explanation:

🆕 New Concept Discovered: Proofreading and Grammatical Correction
Fixing spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and word choice errors.

Step 1: Identify Capitalization Errors

Proper nouns (names of specific places and groups of people) must always be capitalized.

• "new York" should be capitalized as New York.
• "new Yorkers" should be capitalized as New Yorkers.
• "Cesspool" is a common noun here and does not need to be capitalized, so it should be cesspool.

Step 2: Identify Punctuation and Contraction Errors

• "Its" is a possessive pronoun, but the sentence requires the contraction for "it is." Therefore, "Its" should be corrected to It's.
• A punctuation mark (like a colon, semicolon, or period) is needed after "priorities" to separate the two independent clauses and make the sentence flow correctly. Adding a colon or period works best: It's all about priorities: people... or It's all about priorities. People...

Step 3: Identify Homophone and Word Choice Errors

• "too" means "also" or "excessively." The sentence requires the preposition "to" before the noun "intolerance." Therefore, "too" should be corrected to to.

Step 4: Rewrite the Corrected Passage

Combining all the corrections:

• "Its" $

ightarrow$ "It's"

• Add punctuation after "priorities"
• "new York" $

ightarrow$ "New York"

• "Cesspool" $

ightarrow$ "cesspool"

• "new Yorkers" $

ightarrow$ "New Yorkers"

• "too" $

ightarrow$ "to"

Answer:

REELTOK: It's all about priorities. People call New York a cesspool, but New Yorkers would never knuckle under to intolerance and let some lowlife get away with drawing swastikas. Page 109