Track Changes Exercise

EDIT THE FOLLOWING PASSAGES USING TRACK CHANGES
Make basic copy editing changes without comment.
Structural or significant sentence changes should be accompanied by a comment.

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The thirtieth anniversary party of my uncle and aunt was the worst family gathering I’ve ever attended. On a hot Saturday morning in july, Mom and I drived out into the country to Uncle Ted’s house. It had already rained heavily, and the only place left to park was in a muddy field. Then, you would not believe the crowd. There must have been two hundred people in Uncle Ted’s small yard, including his five daughters with their husbands and children, and all the other relatives, and all the neighbours, and the entire congregation of their church. Since the ground was soaked and light rain was falling. Mom and me went under the big rented canopy with everybody else. We couldn’t move between the tables, and the humidity fogged my glasses. After wiping my glasses, I seen the there was a lot of food. It was mainly cold chicken and potato and macaroni salads, I ate a lot just because there was nothing else to do. We were suprised that Uncle Ted and his wife were doing all the work themselves. They ran back and forth with trays of food and gathered trash into plastic bags staggering with exhaustion. It didn’t seem like much of a way to celebrate. Mom was upset that she didn’t get to speak with them. When we left, I was hot, sticky, and sick to my stomach from overeating. But quickly pushed our car out of the mud and got us on the road. I have never been happier to leave a party.
2.
It is this writer’s opinion that smokers should quit smoking for the sake of those who are around them. Perhaps the most helpless creatures that suffer from being near a smoker is unborn babies, one study suggests that the risk of having an undersized baby is doubled if pregnant women are exposed to cigarette smoke for about two hours a day. Pregnant women both should refrain from smoking and to avoid smoke-filled rooms. Spouses of smokers are also in big trouble. They are more likely than spouses of non-smokers to die of heart disease and the development of fatal cancers. Office workers are a final group that can be harmed by a smoke-filled environment. The Minister of Health and Welfare has said “Workers who smoke are a health risk to their co-workers. While it is undoubtedly true that one can argue that smokers have the right to hurt themselves they do not have the right to hurt others. Smokers should abandon their deadly habits for the health of others at home and at work.

Taken from College Writing Skills with Readings, 3rd Canadian Edition, by John Langan and Sharon Winstanley, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2003