Question

jackie robinson is the greatest athlete america has ever known. an athlete has to be talented if he or she wants to be a legend, and robinson won many awards for his talent. not only did he break the color barrier in baseball, he was also an incredible diplomat, speaker, and advocate for civil rights. compare your revisions to the model paragraph by completing the following sentence. i made many of the same revisions. which of the following revisions did you include while rewriting the passage? check any of the boxes that apply. ☐ i removed the dangling preposition. ☐ i removed the gendered pronoun. ☐ i made the listed items parallel. ☐ i added the oxford comma. ☐ i added sentence variety. ☐ i changed the passive voice to active voice. done ✔️ complete

Explanation:

To determine the applicable revisions, we analyze the passage:

• "I added the Oxford comma": The list "diplomat, speaker, and advocate" uses the Oxford comma (before "and"), so this applies.
• "I made the listed items parallel": "diplomat, speaker, and advocate" are parallel (nouns), so this applies.
• Other options: No dangling preposition, gendered pronoun is used but not removed (passage uses "he/she" then "he"), no passive voice, sentence variety isn't clearly added, and the preposition isn't dangling. So the applicable ones are "I made the listed items parallel" and "I added the Oxford comma". But since the question asks to check applicable boxes, we identify these.

Answer:

• I made the listed items parallel.
• I added the Oxford comma.