Conventions
This sentence, "I apologize for my late response, but please find last weeks weekly report attached." is:
A - Simple Sentence
B - Complex Sentence
C - Compound Sentence
What is:
C - a Compound Sentence
Fix the mistakes in this sentence:
My mother taked me to the Museum of Science yesterday.
What is:
My mother took me to Museum of Science yesterday.
The _______ in my mechanical pencil ran out.
A - Led
B - Lead
What is:
B - Lead
Donna _____ Sara went to the movies.
What word is missing to correct this sentence?
What is:
Donna and Sara went to the movies.
What part of speech are the italicized words?
How often does she rudely shout out the answer?
A - adverb, verb, question word
B - noun, frequency adverb, adjective
C - adjective, frequency noun, adverb
D - question word, frequency adverb, adverb
What is:
D - quesiton word, frequency adverb, adverb.
This letter must always be capitalized when written by itself or in a contraction.
I
Fix the mistakes in this sentence:
Him goes to the movies last friday.
What is:
He went to the movies last Friday.
I bought too/two/to many pairs of shoes at the store.
What is:
- too
We _____ hiking walking biking and fishing at the park.
What is:
We went hiking, walking, biking, and fishing at the park.
What part of speech is the italicized word in this sentence?
The little boy lost his blue jacket.
A. noun C. adverb
B. verb D. adjective
What is:
D. adjective
Every sentence must end with a mark. What are three possible end marks?
What are:
A period (.), question mark (?), and exclamation mark (!).
Fix the mistakes in this sentence:
What did i do rite.
What is:
What did I do right?
The crooks wanted to ________ the _______, so they went to the metal scrap yard.
A - Leave, Steal
B - Steel, Steal
C - Steal, Steel
What is:
C - Steal, Steel
I would love to _______ Germany, England next summer.
What is missing?
A. sea
B. visit
What is:
I would love to visit Germany and England next summer.
What is a noun?
What is:
A person, place, or thing.
What are 2 reasons that you capitalize a letter in a sentence?
What is:
1- the beginning of a sentence
2- the letter I
Fix the mistakes in this sentence:
I ____ walking to the store yesterday and something funny happened.
A. was
B. were
C. will be
What is:
A. was
We don't know what to _______ so _______ going to a place ________ they have different style clothes.
A - where, we're, wear
B - we're, wear, where
C - wear, we're, where
What is:
C - wear, we're, where
Brad and pat will bye the Blue car.
What is:
Brad and Pat will buy the blue car.
What part of speech are the italicized words?
He eats his peanut butter and jelly sandwich, while sitting on the sofa, during his favorite televsion show.
A. nouns C. prepositions
B. verbs D. conjunctions
What are:
C. prepositions
Name the 7 coordinating conjunctions.
What are:
For, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so. (FANBOYS)
Fix the mistakes in this sentences:
I hope we will go to bangkok soon for we can watch all of the beautiful temples. I particularly like the wat arun temple.
What is:
I hope we will go to Bangkok soon, so we can see all of the beautiful temples. I particularly like the Wat Arun Temple.
She ________ her umbrella when it began to _______.
A. missed, mist
B. mist, rain
C. opened, missed
What is:
A. missed, mist
John needs to bring his phone ______ wallet with him to the ball game, __________ he doesn't plan on using them.
A. plus, still
B. for, eventhough
C. and, eventhough
What is:
C. John needs to bring his phone and wallet with him to the ball game, eventhough he doesn't plan on using them.
When pronouncing the words stunned, watched, and wanted, which rules do you follow?
A - /t/, /id/, /d/
B - /d/, /t/, /id/
C - /d/, /id/, /t/
D - /t/, /d/, /id/
What is:
B - /d/, /t/, /id/