Ameliorate Scarification

Directions: improve, or ameliorate the sentence below, in red. There are two missing commas.

Scarification although practiced less today is a special African form of body art that involves scarring the skin that still exists in Africa and other parts of the world. 

Suggested Answer:
Scarification, although practiced less today, is a special African form of body art that involves scarring the skin that still exists in Africa and other parts of the world. 

Ameliorate Mortars

Directions: students should grammatically correct the sentence below, in red, excerpted from "A Long Walk To Water."  There is one missing colon and one missing comma.

The village men were forced to carries supplies guns and mortars, shells radio equipment.

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Suggested Answer:
The village men were forced to carry supplies: guns and mortars, shells, radio equipment.

Ameliorate Maps

Directions: 
grammatically correct the sentence below, in red. There is one misused word, five missing commas, and missing one colon ( : ). 

In order to read a map accurately travelers must know that their are several important parts to a map a title the compass the scale and the legend or key.

Suggested Answer:
In order to read a map accurately, travelers must know that there are several important parts to a map: a title, the compass, the scale, and the legend, or key.

Ameliorate Medieval Science

Directions: Students should ameliorate the sentence below, in red. There are 4 missing commas and 1 missing colon ( : ). 

During the Middle Ages doctors believed that good health relied on a balance of the Four Humors blood phlegm yellow bile and black bile.

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Suggested Answer: 

During the Middle Ages, doctors believed that good health relied on a balance of the Four Humors:  blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile.

Ameliorate the Human Shark

 directions: ameliorate the following sentence. There are three missing commas. 

“'I am a shark Cassie,’ he says slowly drawing the words out as if he might be speaking to me for the last time."

QUESTION:  
Is this an example of metaphor or simile?

Suggested Answer: 
 “'I am a shark, Cassie,’ he says slowly, drawing the words out, as if he might be speaking to me for the last time."

Ameliorate Barrio Boy

Directions: students should improve, or ameliorate, the following sentence, in red. There is a missing colon and two missing commas.

Miss Hopley and her teachers never let us forget why we were at Lincoln for those who were alien to become good Americans; for those who were so born to accept the rest of us. 

suggested answer: 
Miss Hopley and her teachers never let us forget why we were at Lincoln: for those who were alien, to become good Americans; for those who were so born, to accept the rest of us. 

Ameliorate the Melting Pot

Directions: students should ameliorate the sentence below, in red.  There are two missing commas.

The melting pot theory popular in the late 1800s U.S.A. was that many different cultures will melt together into one homogeneous group with shared values.

Suggested Answer: 
The melting pot theory, popular in the late 1800s U.S.A., was that many different cultures will melt together into one homogeneous group with shared values.