UNIT 4 End-of-Unit Assessment (Reading Informational Texts Exam)

Question 8 • Language Arts 11 Q2 - Chappell - 4110 - Summer 2026

Read the sentence.Derek Jeter notched his 3,000th hit for the New York Yankees when he was thirty-seven years old in 2011 at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. Which is the best way to revise this complex sentence?

Answer

In 2011, Derek Jeter notched his 3,000th hit for the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. He was thirty-seven years old.

In 2011, Derek Jeter notched his 3,000th hit for the New York Yankees. At Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, he was thirty-seven years old.

Derek Jeter notched his 3,000th hit for the New York Yankees when he was thirty-seven years old playing at Yankee Stadium. In the Bronx.

Derek Jeter notched his 3,000th hit at age thirty-seven. In the Bronx at Yankee Stadium in 2011.

Explanation

Choice A best separates the information into two complete, clear sentences. The first sentence keeps the details about when and where Jeter got his 3,000th hit; the second states his age. Choice B awkwardly suggests that he was thirty-seven years old at Yankee Stadium, while choices C and D contain sentence fragments.

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