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You must read each slide, and complete any questions on the slide, in sequence.
Exercise S4-6
Editing for shifts
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Edit the following sentences to eliminate distracting shifts. Type your answers in the boxes below.

Click Submit after each question to see feedback and to record your answer. After you have finished every question, your answers will be submitted to your instructor’s gradebook. You may review your answers by returning to the exercise at any time. (An exercise reports to the gradebook only if your instructor has assigned it.)

Example

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A courtroom lawyer needs to have more than a touch of theater in their blood.

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Suggested revision: Courtroom lawyers need to have more than a touch of theater in their blood.

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The interviewer asked if we had brought our proof of citizenship and did we bring our passports?

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Suggested revision: The interviewer asked if we had brought our proof of citizenship and our passports.

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The experienced reconnaissance scout knows how to make fast decisions and use sophisticated equipment to keep their team from being detected.

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Suggested revision: Experienced reconnaissance scouts know how to make fast decisions and use sophisticated equipment to keep their teams from being detected.

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After the animators finish their scenes, the production designer arranges the clips according to the storyboard. Synchronization notes must also be made for the sound editor and the composer.

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Suggested revision: After the animators finish their scenes, the production designer arranges the clips according to the storyboard and makes synchronization notes for the sound editor and the composer.

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Madame Defarge is a sinister figure in Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities. On a symbolic level, she represents fate; like the Greek Fates, she knitted the fabric of individual destiny.

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Suggested revision: Madame Defarge is a sinister figure in Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities. On a symbolic level, she represents fate; like the Greek Fates, she knits the fabric of individual destiny.