JEHIMY JEAN ALVAREZ SALTOS

Exercise 3

Editing. Correct the mistakes in the use of linking verbs in
this text.

One Saturday afternoon when my younger sister Mona and I
were teenagers, I was
getting
becoming ready to go to a party. Mona hadnt been invited. It
appeared a big problem for her.
got
She went to be crazy because of it. She found some hair-coloring
turned
and she just decided to make blonde her hair, but she didnt do it
right and her hair turned into bright orange.

It also became orange her face, so she looked like really strange.
looks like
When my mother saw her, she said Mona looked an orange
balloon.
was
After that, Mona got to be very upset and she started screaming
being
with her hands over her ears. I just kept to be quiet during all that.

My mother eventually calmed her down and we got some darker
hair-color to make it look like better.