Day 1 Use of quotation marks with the title of a poem Correct indefinite article Correction of commonly misspelled word Use of end punctuation: question mark In his poem The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe describes how a raven frightens the speaker. Would you want a eerie bird like this to harrass you

Day 1 In the poem “The Raven,” Edgar Allan Poe describes how a raven frightens the speaker. Use of quotation marks with title of a poem Would you want an eerie bird like this to harass you? Correct indefinite article Correction of commonly misspelled word Use of end punctuation: question mark

Day 2 Elimination of colon between preposition and object Correction of commonly confused words Elimination of unnecessary capitalization I hope the raven will not drive the speaker crazy with: it’s spooky gaze. My Sister Jillian claims that the speaker will lose his mind in the end.

Day 2 : I hope the raven will not drive the speaker crazy with its spooky gaze. Elimination of colon between preposition and object Correction of commonly confused words My sister Jillian claims that the speaker will lose his mind in the end. Elimination of unnecessary capitalization ___

Day 3 Correction of faulty subordination Use of precise adverb to improve style Elimination of they without a clear antecedent Because the raven is able to make the speaker really nervous, the night is dark and gloomy. In “The Raven,” they provide a vivid description of terror.

Day 3 Because the night is dark and gloomy, the raven is able to make the speaker extremely nervous. Correction of faulty subordination Use of precise adverb to improve style they “The Raven” provides a vivid description of terror. Elimination of they without a clear antecedent _____

Day 4 Use of comma after introductory adverb clause Verb tense compatibility Subject and verb agreement Use of apostrophe to show possession When the bird refuses to talk the man in the poem lost his temper. “The Raven” describe the mans growing hysteria.

Day 4 When the bird refuses to talk, the man in the story loses his temper. Use of comma after introductory adverb clause Verb tense compatibility “The Raven” describes the man’s growing hysteria. Subject and verb agreement Use of apostrophe to show possession

Day 5 Elimination of here after a demonstrative adjective Use of subordinating conjunction to combine sentences Use of comma after introductory phrase Correction of misplaced modifier This here poem was so powerful. The bird’s appearance and silence were unnerving. To recover from our fear we nearly spent half an hour talking about the poem.

Day 5 here This poem was so powerful because the bird’s appearance and silence were unnerving. Elimination of here after a demonstrative adjective Use of subordinating conjunction to combine sentences To recover from our fear, we spent nearly half an hour talking about the poem. Use of comma after introductory phrase Correction of misplaced modifier ____