Question

read the following text from a student essay. how can the writer best improve his or her grammar and mechanics? imre nagy became the leader of hungary, in 1953. nagy opposed the soviet unions influence on his country. as a result, he was forced out of office in 1955. hungarian protesters in the city of, budapest, demonstrated against the soviets in support of nagy. a period of revolt, and unrest followed. in november, 1956, thousands of soviet troops, and tanks stormed into hungary. thousands of hungarians fled, or were killed. nagy was captured, and executed. by using correct verb tenses by fixing sentence fragments by removing unnecessary commas

Explanation:

The text has unnecessary commas in phrases like "in the city, of Budapest" and "in November, 1956". Removing them would improve grammar and mechanics. Verb - tenses seem consistent and there are no obvious sentence fragments.

Answer:

by removing unnecessary commas