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Homophones
Possesive vs. Plural
Verbs
Figurative Language
Commas
100
First, if your/you're going to cook, you need to pay attention to your/you're ingredients.
you're, your
100
Correct the following sentence: Within a few weeks I had moved from the outfield to first base and finally to the pitchers mound.
What is pitcher's?
100
Mom, Dad, and Lauren was/were upstairs.
What is were?
100
This figurative language makes a comparison using like or as. 

 Example: We ran as fast as a speeding bullet.


similie


100
Correct the following sentence: 


I kept the glove on my right hand, and picked up a ball with my left.

Delete the comma after hand
200
They took Oliver out of his pen and put him in (there, their, they're) car.
What is their?
200
The singers/singer's agreed to dress in black.
What is singers?
200
Correct the following sentence: Tanya have two sisters and one brother.
What is has?
200
A figure of speech in which a comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common. 

 Example: He is a bear in the morning.

metaphor
200
Correct the following sentence: 

Mom’s birthday present didn’t turn out as we had planned but she knew that we loved her.

,but
300
What change, if any, should be made to the following sentence? Grinning from ear to ear, we brought are gift to Mom.
What is our ?
300
What change, if any, should be made to the following sentence? I took the time to look around and appreciate the beauty of the rock wall’s.
what is walls?
300
The Alpha star is one of the stars that shine/shines the brightest.
What is shines?
300
A figure of speech in which the sound of a word is imitative of the sound of the thing which the word represents. 

 Example: buzz, slithered, pow, zap, fizz, hiss

 onomatopoeia
300
The following choice that uses commas correctly: 

A. While the people went upstairs, Oliver was left to sleep downstairs in the basement. 

B. The people went upstairs, and Oliver was left. To sleep downstairs in the basement. 

C. The people went upstairs, Oliver was left to sleep downstairs in the basement.

A
400
Correct the following sentence: Jay Shafer lives in a house that is smaller then some people’s closets.
What is than ?
400
How should the following sentence be changed? So the next time you hear someone listing the reasons that dogs are better than cats, remember that having a cat for a pet has it's advantages.
What is change it's to its?
400
Correct the following sentence: While Luis watch a movie, his friend studied for an upcoming math test.
What is watched ?
400
A literary expression that is not meant to be taken literally. 

 Example: Put your foot in your mouth.

idiom
400
Select the best choice 

 A. After we finished planting, we had a tasty picnic at a table we had set up under a tree. 

 B. We finished planting, then we had a tasty picnic at a table we had set up under a tree.

A


500
They're/There/Their over they're/there/their playing with they're/there/their erasers.
What is They're over there playing with their erasers?
500
One sphere-shaped house in Canada hang’s in the trees, and the only way its owner can get to it is by climbing a long set of winding stairs.
What is hangs ?
500
The scent of the candles was/were strong?
What is was?
500
Giving human qualities to inanimate objects (non-human things).

Example:  

personification
500
Place the comma(s) in the correct location. "Wow" I said to my friend Jack "we were only in that rainstorm for twenty minutes. Didn't it seem like a lot longer?"
"Wow," Jack,