Homophones
Complete or Incomplete?
All in Agreement
Punctuation Station
Read The Passage
100
Choose the correct word: I made chocolate cake for dessert/desert.
dessert
100
Which of these sentences is incomplete? A. Last weekend my family and I visited a pretzel factory. B. It is called the Sturgis Pretzel House. C. In a stone house that was built in 1784. D. The best part of the tour was making our own pretzels!
C
100
Which word in the following sentence should be changed, and how? The teacher told his students that their would be many new opportunities in middle school.
A. Their should be changed to there.
100
1. Which sentence is written correctly? A.I know someone who likes pepperoni, ham, pineapple, and olives on their pizza. B.I know someone who likes pepperoni, ham pineapple and olives on their pizza. C.I know someone who likes pepperoni ham pineapple and olives on their pizza
A. The first sentence is correct. Commas are used between words phrases, or clauses in a series.
100
Choose the conjunction that best corrects sentence2 A) The clouds and tree branches seem to spin out of control that I whirl round and round. B) The clouds and tree branches seem to spin out of control as I whirl round and round. C) The clouds and tree branches seem to spin out of control before I whirl round and round. D) The clouds and tree branches seem to spin out of control unless I whirl round and round.
What is Answer: B
200
Choose the correct word: Cathy wore her favorite pear/pair of shoes.
pair
200
Which of the following is a complete sentence and why? A. The thunderstorm was not a concern to the soccer. B. The soccer players were on the field with no concern about the thunderstorm. C. Playing soccer on the field with no concern about the thunderstorm.
Sentence B - it has all the necessary parts A does not have a complete thought C does not have a subject
200
Choose the correct word to complete the following sentence: The championship game will prove (whose, who’s) team has the best skills
whose
200
2. Read the following sentence and tell where the comma belongs. Not even the smartest scientists can figure out how the chubby bumblebee can fly but it just goes ahead and flies anyway.
The comma belongs before the word but. A comma may be used between two independent clauses which are joined by a conjunction (and, but, or, for, so, and yet).
200
To correct an error in subject-verb agreement, change A) stops to stop in sentence 3 B) get to gets in sentence 5 C) sense to senses in sentence 9 D) sends to send in sentence 10
What is Answer: D
300
Choose the correct word: Karen was so glad to see/sea her friends.
see
300
Name 3 adjectives in the following sentence: The fifth grade student wrote an interesting report about George Washington, our first president.
fifth, interesting, first
300
Correct the following sentence: David ran down the court and jumps up to dunk the ball before the other team could stop him.
...ran down and jumped
300
Read the following sentence and tell where the comma belongs. As Oscar the Grouch says “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.”
The comma belongs after the word says. Commas are used to set off the exact words of the speaker from the rest of the sentence.
300
Which change corrects an error in word choice? A) Change Lying to Laying in sentence 1 B) Change feet to feat in sentence 3 C) Change very to vary in sentence 6 D) Change write to right in sentence 13
What is Answer: D
400
Choose the correct word: The family decided to cell/sell their house.
sell
400
Joe is writing his story in the past tense. Which sentence below does not belong because it is in the present tense? A. Last summer my family went on a trip to Lake Erie. B. We packed our bags and left early in the morning. C. Dad asks me to find our campsite on the map and draw a line for him to follow. D. It took us over 2 hours to get there!
C
400
Choose the correct verb to complete this sentence: The track meet will be cancelled if it ( begin, began, begins, begun) to rain.
begins
400
Read the following sentence and tell where the comma belongs. Early in the 1974 baseball season Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth’s record by hitting his 715th home run.
The correct placement of the comma would be after the word season. Commas should be used to separate a long phrase or clause from the independent clause following it.
400
Choose the best topic sentence for this passage. A) Getting dizzy is all in your ears. B) Getting dizzy is not that much fun. C) I always get dizzy on the merry-go-round. D) I wonder if you can get dizzy in outer space.
What is Answer: A
500
Choose the correct word: Sue was sure she made the write/right choice.
right
500
Which sentence has an error in capitalization and what is it? A. In 1850 Julius Sturgis began perfecting a recipe for the hard pretzel. B. His family has been making pretzels ever since. C. The factory is located North of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
C - North should not be capitalized
500
Correct the error in this sentence: When they finished their work, Meagan and Danielle ran quick to Sarah’s house to see if she could go the mall with them.
quick should be quickly
500
Read the following sentence and tell where the comma belongs. Paul Anderson the strongest man in the world once lifted a table with six people on top of it.
A comma should be placed after Anderson and after world. Commas are used to set off appositives. An appositive is a word or phrase that renames the noun or pronoun before it.
500
Which sentence contains a possesive noun?
Sentence number 1. ( park's)
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