Subject Verb Agreement
Choose the correct verb: The student (study / studies) for the STAAR test every afternoon.
What is studies?
Pick the modifier that describes a fast action: The student answered the question (quick / quickly).
What is quickly? (Adverbs describe actions/verbs!)
Roma is a part of this county.
What is Starr County?
How do you say "Contribute" in Spanish? (Context: "How does paragraph 4 contribute to the author's argument?")
¿Cómo se dice Aportar? (or Contribuir)
Before smartphones combined everything, if you wanted to listen to your music on the go, you plugged your white wired earbuds into a tiny, colorful rectangle pocket device made by Apple that featured a mechanical "click wheel."
What is an iPod (or MP3 Player)?
Choose the correct verb: The players on the soccer team (practice / practices) after school.
What is practice? (The subject is plural: "players")
What is wrong with this sentence? Walking to school, the rain soaked my homework.
What is a dangling modifier? (It sounds like the homework was walking to school! It should be: "Walking to school, I got my homework soaked by the rain.")
This famous American fast-food chain, known for its late-night tacos and sourdough jacks, actually had a restaurant in Roma that ended up shutting down because it wasn't popular enough.
What is Jack in the Box?
How do you say "Highlight" or "Emphasize" in Spanish? (Context: "The author includes this description to highlight the danger.")
¿Cómo se dice Destacar, Resaltar, or Enfatizar?
Before Google Maps on your phone took over, parents had to suction-cup a bulky electronic screen made by brands like Garmin or Magellan to the car windshield just to get step-by-step driving directions.
What is a GPS Navigation Device?
Choose the correct verb: Either Carlos or his brothers (is / are) bringing the snacks.
What is are? (With "either/or", the verb matches the closer subject: "brothers")
Choose the correct word: I feel (bad / badly) that I missed your birthday party.
What is bad? (Use "bad" after linking verbs like "feel" or "look" unless your hands physically don't work!)
Roma is world-famous among nature lovers and has this location where people come to see rare tropical species.
What is the World Birding Center?
How do you say "Shift" in Spanish when talking about a change in a story? (Context: "A major shift occurs in paragraph 6 when the tone changes.")
¿Cómo se dice Cambio or Giro?
Released by Nintendo in 2004, this legendary handheld gaming console featured a unique folding design with two separate screens—and the bottom one let you use a plastic stylus to touch it.
What is the Nintendo DS?
Find and fix the error in this sentence: Everybody in the classroom want to pass the exam.
What is changing "want" to wants? (Words ending in -body or -one are always singular!)
Fix the misplaced modifier: We saw a family of deer driving down the highway.
What is "Driving down the highway, we saw a family of deer"? (The deer weren't driving the car!)
Roma ISD is a big family! Counting all the elementary schools, middle schools, the high school, and specialized academies, how many total schools make up the district?
What is 10 schools?
How do you say "Assumption" in Spanish? (Context: "What assumption does the character make at the beginning of the story?")
¿Cómo se dice Suposición? (or Presunción)
Long before TikTok, this legendary website was the absolute king of social media in the mid-2000s. It was famous for letting you pick a song to play on your profile, code your own backgrounds, and rank your "Top 8" closest friends.
What is MySpace?
Fix this tricky sentence: The group of boys (runs / run) across the field near the Rio Grande.
What is runs? (The subject is the collective noun "pack", which is singular, not "dogs")
Choose the correct option for comparing three or more things: Of all the students in English II, Valeria writes the (more clearly / most clearly).
What is most clearly? (Use superlative "-most" when comparing more than two things)
During the American Civil War, Roma became very wealthy because it was a safe neutral zone to transport this major Southern crop across the river into Mexico to sell to Europe.
What is cotton?
How do you say "Portray" in Spanish? (Context: "How does the poet portray the main character's struggles?")
¿Cómo se dice Retratar or Representar?
Long before Netflix or Disney+ existed, families had to drive to a physical retail store with a bright blue and yellow sign to browse rows of movies on shelves and rent them for the weekend.
What is Blockbuster Video?