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Attitude Questions
Word Parts
Commas & Semicolons
Prepositions
Mixed
100
What is tone?
It is the author's attitude about the topic. It can be positive, negative, or neutral.
100
What does "philos" mean?
Love
100
Add three commas to the sentence: "Navigating through snow sleet wind and darkness is a miserable way to travel."
Navigating through snow, sleet, wind, and darkness is a miserable way to travel.
100
Identify the preposition: Officer Ramirez absentmindedly forgot his badge at home.
at
100
What does "phobia" mean?
Fear
200
Is the tone of the sentence calm, annoyed, scary, or excited? -- "Wow! With a top speed of one hundred fifty miles per hour, that car can almost fly!"
Excited
200
What does "anthrop" mean?
Human
200
Add one comma to the sentence: "Through modern geology, humans have a clearer -- though hardly complete -- understanding of the mechanism of magma flow and can analyze the vibrations of the earth to warn of recent eruptions."
Through modern geology, humans have a clearer -- though hardly complete -- understanding of the mechanism of magma flow, and can analyze the vibrations of the earth to warn of recent eruptions.
200
Identify the preposition: Officer Lex couldn't finish his paperwork before lunchtime.
before
200
Add the correct preposition: Alex hit the baseball _____ the fence.
over
300
Is the tone of the sentence calm, annoyed, scary, or excited? -- "Ugh! Do I really have to sit through another boring lecture on data entry again?"
Annoyed
300
What does "soph" mean?
Wisdom
300
Add one comma to the sentence: "Chains of volcanic islands called archipelagos provide evidence that the hotspot stays in place as the tectonic plate passes over it."
Chains of volcanic islands, called archipelagos, provide evidence that the hotspot stays in place as the tectonic plate passes over it.
300
Add the correct preposition: I will wait ______ 6:30, but then I'm going home.
until
300
What does the MEAL plan stand for?
Main idea, Evidence/Example, Argument/Analysis, and Link
400
Is the author's tone persuasive, defensive, critical, or neutral? -- People today make life too difficult for smokers. Smokers today are segregated from nonsmokers in the workplace, school, and restaurants, among other places. Both of my parents have smoked for all of their adult lives and neither one has had lung or heart problems because of it. A little secondhand smoke is, at best, just an inconvenience for nonsmokers, not a life-threatening assault on their health.
Defensive
400
What does "ology" mean?
The study of
400
Add one semicolon to the sentence: "Some people write with a word processor, typewriter, or a computer but others, for different reasons, choose to write with a pen or pencil."
Some people write with a word processor, typewriter, or a computer; but others, for different reasons, choose to write with a pen or pencil.
400
Add the correct preposition: I am not interested _____ buying a new car now.
in
400
If "cycl" means wheel, what does "tricycle" mean?
Three wheels
500
Is the author's tone admiring, begrudging, persuasive, or neutral? -- Stricter gun control laws won’t help our crime rates. Just like when Prohibition laws were enacted and people began to make whiskey illegally, people will find a way to purchase guns if they want to and create a field day for the black market. Also, some people want to use guns honestly, for self - protection or for legal hunting purposes. Let’s find another way to deal with crime without penalizing those who have good reasons for purchasing and keeping guns.
Persuasive
500
What does "techno" mean?
Art, skill
500
Add two semicolons to the sentence: "I like cows: they give us milk, which tastes good they give us beef, which also tastes good and they give us leather, which is used for shoes and coats."
I like cows: they give us milk, which tastes good; they give us beef, which also tastes good; and they give us leather, which is used for shoes and coats.
500
Add the correct preposition: The professor _______ South Africa amazed the American students with her stories.
from
500
Add five semicolons to the sentence: "I need the weather statistics for the following cities: London, England London, Ontario Paris, France Paris, Ontario Perth, Scotland Perth, Ontario."
I need the weather statistics for the following cities: London, England; London, Ontario; Paris, France; Paris, Ontario; Perth, Scotland; Perth, Ontario.