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100
Choose the word that best completes the sentence. Please (accept, except) charges for the phone call.
What is accept
100
Identify the sentence as parallel or not parallel. A pulled muscle can feel stiff, sore, and cause pain.
What is not parallel
100
Identify the errors in comma usage. Students teachers and staff attended the special, Environmental Day ceremonies.
What is Students, teachers, and staff attended the special Environmental Day ceremonies.
100
Identify the error in punctuation. At the Chinese restaurant we ordered these appetizers steamed dumplings, fried won ton, and egg rolls.
What is a colon error. At the Chinese restaurant we ordered these appetizers: steamed dumplings, fried won ton, and egg rolls.
100
Identify the prepositions in the following sentence. "Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path."
What is to and of.
200
Choose the word that best completes the sentence. Did yesterday's rain (affect, effect) the traffic?
What is affect
200
Identify the sentence as parallel or not parallel. The average person uses fourteen muscles to smile and forty-three muscles for frowning.
What is not parallel
200
Identify errors in comma usage. James ate fresh grapefruit, ham, and eggs, and whole wheat toast for breakfast.
What is James ate fresh grapefruit, ham and eggs, and whole wheat toast for breakfast.
200
Identify the error in punctuation. The old house badly needed a coat of paint furthermore, the gutters were sagging and the porch railing was broken.
What is a semicolon error. The old house badly needed a coat of paint; furthermore, the gutters were sagging and the porch railing was broken.
200
Identify the pronouns in the following sentence. "Could I enter into a festival with this deadly weight yet hanging round my neck and bowing me to the ground?"
What is I, my, and me.
300
Choose the word that best completes the sentence. A large (number, amount) of people enrolled in the new dance class.
What is number
300
Identify the sentence as parallel or not parallel. Riding leisurely on a bike burns about three hundred calories per hour, but seven hundred calories are burned when you race on a bike for an hour.
What is not parallel
300
Identify errors in comma usage. The much-admired writer Mark Twain was born in a small frontier settlement in Missouri and he grew up in Hannibal, Missouri.
What is The much-admired writer Mark Twain was born in a small frontier settlement in Missouri, and he grew up in Hannibal, Missouri.
300
Identify the error in punctuation. Everyone stood as they played The Star Spangled Banner.
What is quotation mark error. Everyone stood as they played "The Star Spangled Banner."
300
Identify the adverbs in the following sentence. "How dreadful is the state of those that are daily and hourly in the danger of this great wrath and infinite misery!"
What is how, daily, and hourly.
400
Choose the word that best completes the sentence. My dog loves to (lay, lie) in front of the fireplace.
What is lie
400
Identify the sentence as parallel or not parallel. Celine looked behind the toilet, in the laundry basket, and checked under the bed, but she could not find Squeeze, her nine-foot albino python.
What is parallel
400
Identify errors in comma usage. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14 1865 just five days after the Civil War ended.
What is Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865, just five days after the Civil War ended.
400
Identify the error in punctuation. Primate's include lemurs, monkeys, and apes.
What is an apostrophe error. Primates include lemurs, monkeys, and apes.
400
Identify the verbs in the following sentence. "It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
What is is, have, done, is, go, have, and known.
500
Choose the word that best completes the sentence. (Sit, Set) the procedure and follow it each time to prevent confusion.
What is Set
500
Identify the sentence as parallel or not parallel. Lenora flipped through her notebook, rummaged through her book bag, and searched through her car, but she could not find Mark's completed calculus homework which she had borrowed to copy.
What is parallel
500
Identify errors in comma usage. Way to go Michelle!
What is Way to go, Michelle!
500
Identify the error in punctuation. The sportive lemur jumps from tree trunk to tree trunk with it's body vertical.
What is an apostrophe error. The sportive lemur jumps from tree trunk to tree trunk with its body vertical.
500
Identify the adjectives in the following sentence. "His father, an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for Byron and a habit of drowsing over the news, grew wealthy at thirty through the death of two elder brothers, successful Chicago brokers."
What is ineffectual, inarticulate, wealthy, two, elder, successful, and Chicago.