It Took a While to Get Used to My New Names. I Wondered If I Shouldn T Correct My Teachers

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It Took a While to Get Used to My New Names. I Wondered If I Shouldn T Correct My Teachers

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It took a while to get used to my new names. I wondered if I shouldn’t correct my teachers and new friends. My mother argued that it didn’t matter. “You know what your friend Shakespeare said,

‘A rose by any other name would smell as sweet’” My family had gotten into the habit of calling any famous author “my friend” because I had begun to write poems and stories in English class.

By the time I was in high school, I was a popular girl, and it showed in my name. Friends called me Jules or Hey Jude, and once a group of troublemaking friends my mother forbade me to hang out with called me Alcatraz. Use the editing marks to correct the following passage. You will need to edit for punctuation, capital letters, spelling, grammar, and anything else you feel needs to be corrected. it took awhile to get use to my knew names i wondered if I shouldn’t correct my teachers and new friends my mother argued that it didn’t matter you know what your friend shakespeare said a rose by any other name would smell as sweet my family had gotten into the habit of calling any famous author my friend because I had begun to right poems and stories in english class by the time I was I high school I am apopular gril and it showed in my name friends called me jules or hey jude and once a group of trouble making friends my mother forbidded me to hang out with calls me alcatraz

Revise the following sentence so that all the “Really Bad Words” are removed, but the content remains the same. The Really Bad Words to remove have been underlined.

Bill sort of wanted to join the group, but he was very shy. So, he took a big step backwards from the group and felt completely alone.

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