Pronoun and Subject-Verb agreement
Everyone selected to serve on this jury _____ to be willing to give up a lot of time.
Each of the students is responsible for doing his or her work in the library.
In the seventh grade every young boy tries out for football. To prove to himself and his parents that he is a man.
a.) sentence fragment
Which one can best be compared to one another?
a.) spiders and flies b.) horses and humans c.) babies and birds d.) snakes and lizards
a.) spiders and flies
The longest-lived creature in the insect world is the queen termite. She has been known to live for over 50 years. During that time, the queen can lay over 30,000 eggs each day. So in her 50 years of life, it is possible for her to give birth to half a billion children. Some termite hills can be over six meters high.
a.) Some termite hills can be over six meters high.
Jesse was ____ from all of the excruciating manual labor he did for the Down Syndrome Awareness Walk. a) tired b) exhausted c) very tired d) angry
b.) exhausted
The typhoons that tear through this county every spring _____ more than just a nuisance.
The tornadoes that tear through this country every spring is more that just a nuisance.
Then I attended Bogle Junior High. A junior high that was a bad experience, and was laden with problems.
Fragment.
Selma's hair, which was so beautiful, was wavier and longer than Kristy's hair in the winter time. Which thing(s) is being contrasted in the following sentence?
a.) wavy and long b.) hair c.) girls' hair d.) waviness vs. length e.) seasonal hair styles
b.) ponytail hair
For many years, all books were written by hand. Because it took so long to write one book, there were only a few of them. Then Johannes Gutenberg got the idea of carving separate letters and moving them to make new words. Later, Gutenberg died at the age of 68. This was the invention of moveable type. From then on, the numbers of books printed grew quickly.
c.) Gutenberg died at the age of 68.
Michael is a very _____ person on Mondays at work, which is rare around here. a.) happy b.) focused c.) cheerful d.) sad
b.) captivating
Each of the students ___ responsible for doing his or her work in the library.
Everyone selected to serve on this jury has to be willing to give up a lot of time.
The sun is high, bright, and strong today, put on some sunblock.
a.) run-on
What is the effect? Philip not only missed the bus, but also scraped his knee when he fell running to the stop because he overslept.
a.) he forgot to get up in time b.) he missed the bus c.) he overslept d.) he scraped his knee e.) he ran too fast
b.) he missed the bus
The solar system is believed to have formed maybe 5 billion years ago, from a spinning cloud of gas called a nebula. As this nebula contracted it began to spin faster and faster. Probably it spun off rings of matter as it became more disk-like. These rings later contracted into a smaller size and became planets. Now, our solar system is is just one of many in our local galaxy.
a.) Earth is the third planet from the Sun.
As a teacher gains more experience, he or she will often gain a more ________ attitude when dealing with students, their parents, and issues in general. a.) commanding b.) confident c.) self-assured d.) self-important
b.) presumptuous
He seemed to have forgotten that there ______ things ______ done before he can start his job. _________ takes time, and isn't _____ easy process.
He seems to forget that there are things to be done before he can graduate
The air was sodden, the temperature high, never had I experienced such unpleasant weather.
c.) comma splice
What is the cause? Hitler's inability to compromise that lead to his acts of aggression towards weaker European nations angered most of the rest of the world and helped to start WWII.
a.) lack of compromise b.) acts of aggression c.) WWII d.) angered world e.) weak European countries
b.) The Stamp Act enraged the colonists
Some people do not know that a spider is an arachnid, not an insect. Arachnids have eight legs instead of six, unlike insects. They also have two body segments instead of three or more like their insect cousins. Though there are more insect species than anything else on earth, arachnids have many on their own.
a.) Some people do not know that the whale is a mammal just like a human.
Jeffery was ____ with himself when he found out he failed the English test. a.) mad b.) upset c.) infuriated d.) antagonized e.) discombobulated
c.) infuriated
Some of the meat _______ to be rotten. The bad parts and the good parts ________ separated. Each and every person _______ counting on us to not get sick next winter!
Some of the grain appear to be contaminated.
Such as the sun sending its brilliant rays to the earth and the leaves moving slowly in the wind; no longer was the land under the scorching heat of summer, but in full swing of autumn.
c.) fragment
What is the effect? The baker didn’t read the recipe carefully, and her cookies did not turn out as she had expected, becoming too chewy on the outside and dry on the inside.
a.) she can't bake b.) she didn't read the directions c.) her cookies are too chewy d.) her cookies are too dry e.) both C and D f.)her cookies' texture was worse than expected
c.) her cookies did not turn out as expected
The largest organ in the human body is the skin. One of the skin's functions is to help regulate the amount of body heat that flows in and out of the body. When it is cold, we cover the skin with extra clothing to slow down the loss of heat. When it is hot, evaporation of sweat cools us down. However, if you are a heavy smoker, your skin is unable to efficiently undergo this process, resulting in often improper body heat, which leads to an increased chance of getting sick.
b.) Heavy smoking ages skin very quickly.
Teacher Philip's Jeopardy class is his __________ class all day because the game often finishes with negative scores. a.) hardest b.) most challenging c.) most demanding d.) most difficult e.) most boring f.) most impossible
c.) finest