Assessment Practice
Industrialization in the United States changed many peoples (1) lives. Skilled craftspeople could no longer compete with mass production, which required that each worker perform one, small task over, and over. (2) Factory workers often work (3) 10 to 15 hours a day. Industrialization also meant that the need for unskilled workers is increasing(4) dramatically. Between 1877 and 1890, 6.3 million people mostly poor and unskilled came to the United States(5) from Europe. In 1840, the population of the United States was 17 million. By 1900, it had jumped. (6) Read this paragraph from the first draft of a research report. The sections with numbers may include the following errors: Facts that need to be elaborated, incorrect possessive forms, comma errors, and verb tense errors. For each section with numbers, choose the revision that most improves the writing.......(1) people's, peoples', people, or correct as is.(2) one small task over and over, one, small task over and over, one small task over, and over, or correct as is. (3) working, was working, worked, or correct as is (4) were increasing, was increasing, was increasingly, or correct as it. (5) 6.3 million people, mostly poor and unskilled came to the United States,
6.3 million people mostly poor, and unskilled came to the United States, 6.3 million people, mostly poor and unskilled, came to the United States, correct as is. (6) By 1900, it was higher, By 1900, it had jumped higher, By1900, it had jumped to over 76 million, or correct as is.
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