Punctuation and Capitalization
(1) Would you like to make your own fruit smoothie. (2) First, pour about a cup of juice or milk into a blender. (3) Then, add frozen or fresh fruit, such as bananas, strawberries, apples, or peaches. (4) Thicken the smoothie by adding plain yogurt or nut butters to the blender. (5) Finally, mix all the ingredients well.
Which sentence should MOST LIKELY end with a question mark?
a. sentence 1
b. sentence 2
c. sentence 3
d. sentence 4
a. sentence 1
Which sentence would a teacher MOST LIKELY use to talk about a class hike?
a. Hey, are you fired up about the class hike?
b. We're gonna check out the Big Mine Trail.
c. Please wear a pair of comfortable shoes.
d. Don't be a litterbug and throw stuff away.
c. Please wear a pair of comfortable shoes.
In which sentence is the underlined word spelled correctly?
a. Jessica ate a penut butter sandwich.
b. What is your most favorite holliday.
c. We grew a big pumpkin in our garden.
d. Those horses pulled a beautiful cariage.
c. We grew a big pumpkin in our garden.
Sally arrived five minutes before the race started. She was not allowed to run in the race. The rules say that to run in the race, you have to arrive at least ten minutes before the race starts.
Which word can correctly replace the underlined word?
a. must
b. might
c. can
d. could
a. must
"Let's go to a movie on Saturday afternoon" Katie said to her cousin.
Which change corrects the mistake in punctuation?
a. Add a comma after afternoon.
b. Add quotation marks after Katie.
c. Add a comma after said.
d. Add quotation marks after cousin.
a. Add a comma after afternoon.
The songbird has dull gray feathers and a curved small beak.
What is the BEST way to write this sentence?
a. This songbird has gray dull feathers and a curved small beak.
b. This songbird has a dull gray feathers and a small curved beak.
c. This songbird has gray dull feathers and a small curved beak.
d. correct as is
b. This songbird has a dull gray feathers and a small curved beak.
The cat walked lazily across the backyard.
Which word can BEST replace the underlined word in the sentence?
a. ran
b. jumped
c. wandered
d. slept
c. wandered
Kia found a comfortable place to think. She will be trying to think of a way to surprise her best friend on the weekend.
Which word or words should replace the underlined part to make the sentence correct?
a. was
b. is
c. will have been
d. will had been
a. was
Ann finished her homework yesterday but she left it on the bus this morning.
a. after homework
b. after yesterday
c. after but
d. after bus
b. after yesterday
The winner of the grand prize, ____________ is a new computer, jumped up and down.
Which word correctly completes the sentence?
a. who
b. that
c. which
d. whom
c. which
A lot of people like grilled hot dogs and hamburgers I like grilled spaghetti.
Which of the following should replace the underlined words in the sentence?
a. hamburgers. I
b. hamburgers, I
c. hamburgers but I
d. hamburgers and I
a. hamburgers. I
A student is writing a book review. Read the draft of the introduction to her review.
If you like to laugh, the book Strange and Sideways Tales is for you. The book has 14 short stories, and each one of them is so funny you will laugh out loud. But, don't expect the stories to make sense. The characters do funny things that real people would never do. For example, in one story, a girl eats her homework for breakfast. In another, twin boys decide to go to Mars, and they just ride their bicycles there.
Choose a more exact word that the student could use instead of the underlined word.
a. mysterious
b. magical
c. unusual
d. unbelievable
c. unusual
Which of these sentences is capitalized correctly?
a. On Labor day, we're going to visit my Uncle in Chicago.
b. On Labor day, we're going to visit my uncle in Chicago.
c. On Labor Day, we're going to visit my Uncle in Chicago.
d. On Labor Day, we're going to visit my uncle in Chicago.
d. On Labor Day, we're going to visit my uncle in Chicago.
We did hear a car go write by our house, but none of us knew where it was going.
That change needs to be made to correct the error?
a. Change hear to here.
b. Change write to right.
c. Change knew to new.
d. Change where to wear.
b. Change write to right.
Eager shoppers at the sale pawed through racks of clothes between the store entrance.
Which underlined word is NOT used correctly?
a. at
b. through
c. of
d. between
d. between
Carrie had a hard time deciding on a new name for her cat. He had black fur, so she thought of names like Shadow, Smoke, Midnight, and Pitch, but none of those seemed right.
A few days went by. Carrie noticed that the cat moved smoothly, as if his bones were liquid. Whenever Carrie wrote, he jumped up on her desk and tapped his tail on her pen. Carrie finally thought of a good name. "Inky! Your name will be Inky," she said.
Which more exact word BEST replaces the underlined word?
a. nice
b. cool
c. fitting
d. useful
c. fitting