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Cheryl Pavlik
Margaret Keenan Segal

Living to Eat or Eating to Live?

Editing Practice

Edit and rewrite the following paragraph. Pay particular attention to:

  • using count and noncount nouns
  • using such as with examples
  • using appositives



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I don't like to cook but I love to make the pie. I make much different kinds of pies. such as pumpkin pie, apple pie and cherry pie. Some pie is easy. Apple is not hard. You only need two pound of apple, a few sugar, and some spices. Other pie is not easy. Such as pecan. Pecan is a pie that has nuts instead of fruit. It is much work. It takes a little time to make a good pecan pie.