Vocabulary
A sum of money for a specific purpose:
A. Funds
B. Exceptional
C. Crisis
D. Hazard
Funds
This is an example of what type of sentence?
I went to the airport and missed my plane and had to take a bus to my friend's house and I skipped dinner so I was hungry and went to bed tired and I don't want to buy plane tickets again.
Run-on sentence
The events and conflict in a story are the:
A. Novel
B. Plot
C. Fiction
D. Sequence
B. Plot
"It's raining cats and dogs" is an example of a(n):
A. Idiom
B. Expression
C. Animalism
D. Hyperbole
A. Idiom
True or False:
You can cite "Google" as a source on your work.
False!
Extraordinary
A. Exceptional
B. Excited
C. Bold
D. Boring
A. Exceptional
A group of words that does NOT show a complete thought is a:
A. Sentence
B. Sentence fragment
C. Clause
D. Act
B. Sentence Fragment
The _________ is the instructions or steps for doing something, or the parts of the story listed in order.
A. Sequence
B. Information
C. Text evidence
D. Conflict
A. Sequence
-ly, -ness, -ate, -ful added to the end of words are examples of
A. Prefixes
B. Suffixes
C. End notes
D. Citations
A. Suffixes
What holiday falls at the end of October?
Halloween
Harsh or serious
A. Alter
B. Hazard
C. Severe
D. Dangerous
C. Severe
The __________ names the person or thing the sentence is about.
A. Subject
B. Predicate
C. Verb
D. Adjective
B. Subject
The main idea is also called the _________ idea.
A. Big
B. Major
C. Instrumental
D. Central
D. Central
Words that are spelled the same but have different meanings are called:
A. Text features
B. Digraphs
C. Homographs
D. Synonyms
C. Homographs
Name one of the two places we are visiting for our field trips this month:
Northeast Middle School to attend the Philharmonic performance
Hugh Moore Park to attend the Tales of a Towpath field trip
To be responsible for something
A. Acceptable
B. Hesitated
C. Inspiration
D. Accountable
D. Accountable
A group of words that has a subject and a verb is a:
A. Clause
B. Sentence
C. Statement
D. Exclamation
A sentence that clearly states the writer's feelings, thoughts, or beliefs about a topic is:
A. Author's claim
B. Author's procedure
C. Author's opinion
D. Author's thoughts
A. Author's claim
Which suffix is used INCORRECTLY?
A. Wonder ful
B. Dangerous ness
C. Uncomfortab ly
D. Compassion ate
B. Dangerousness
What digit is in the ten thousands place?
1,789,432
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A series of actions performed when making or doing something
A. Activities
B. Process
C. Innovative
D. Routine
B. Process
A main, or independent clause, can stand alone as a sentence. A subordinate, or _________ clause, cannot stand alone as a sentence.
A. Statement
B. Question
C. Dependent
D. Defense
C. Dependent
Diagrams, headings, and graphs are examples of:
A. Pictures
B. Visuals
C. Text features
D. Text evidence
D. Text Features
A. Hit the nail on the head
B. Piece of cake
C. Cat got your tongue?
D. Can I borrow the tape?
D. Can I borrow the tape?
What was the name of the old woman who wanted to look at Finn Gorman's stone face necklace in Tales of the Towpath?
Nancy