ENGLISH 1
Choose the correct word: perimeters or parameters.
Let’s set some ____ for the experiment before we begin.
The correct answer is:
What is Parameters?
Explanation:
Parameters are rules or limits that control what something is or how something should be done. Perimeters are measurements of the distance around something.
Choose the correct word: scared or scarred.
His older brother jumped out of the dark closet, which ____ Joey, at first.
What is Scared?
Explanation:
If you are scared, you are fearful of something. If you are scarred, you have a mark left by a healed wound. Scarred can also refer to a psychological trauma. The words “at first” assure us that this is not the case with Joe.
Choose the correct word: lose or loose.
If you go to a casino to gamble, you could ____ all of your money.
What is Lose?
Explanation:
The word lose means you no longer have something or you can’t find something you’re looking for, whereas loose describes something that is not tight or firmly fixed in place.
Choose the correct word: Whose or Who’s.
____ job is it to clean the coffee pot?
What is Whose?
Explanation:
Whose is the possessive of “who” and it shows ownership, such as “Whose book is this?” Who’s is a contraction of “who is.” Hint: If you can replace the word with who is, use who’s. If not, use whose.
Choose the correct word: is or are.
There ____ only six days left until I leave for my vacation.
What is Are?
Explanation:
The subject of the sentence is days, which is plural, so the verb has to be in the plural form. The verb is is used with singular subjects.
Insert the correct punctuation at the end of this sentence:
Do you think we have time to stop at the store before going to the train station
What is (question mark)?
Explanation:
This is a question and requires a question mark (?) at the end.
What is the complete subject in this sentence?
The two knowledgeable women disagreed about how to discipline their children.
What are the two knowledgeable women
Explanation:
While women is the simple subject, the complete subject includes all of the modifying words, as well.
Find the complete predicate in this sentence:
That entire cherry pie has disappeared already!
What is "has disappeared already"?
Explanation:
The complete predicate includes the entire verb and all of its modifiers.
What punctuation is missing in this sentence?
We will have a celebration when the officer Lt. Dillon finds the missing child.
What are commas? (need to be inserted after officer and Dillon.)
We will have a celebration when the officer, Lt. Dillon, finds the missing child.
Explanation:
The words Lt. Dillon serve to give more information about the officer and that information should be separated from the rest of the sentence by commas.
Find the error in this sentence:
It was Nebu’s choice to emigrate to the U.S. from his home country nearly 4 years ago.
What is the word emigrate? (should be immigrate.)
Explanation:
Immigrate means to come into a country. The word emigrate means to leave a country.
Find the error in this sentence:
Delilah decided to wear a plane dress to the event, instead of her long, elaborate ball gown.
What is the word plane? (should be spelled plain.)
Explanation:
The word plain means evident to the mind or free from decoration. Plane is the shortened form of the word airplane.
Find the nouns in this sentence:
Although the dog had a hurt paw, it was still able to walk around the entire block.
What are dog, paw, block?
Explanation:
A noun is defined as a person, place, or thing. The word it is a pronoun.
Find the error in this sentence:
The student could not complete the exercises because his asthma made it hard for him to breath.
What is the word breath? It should be (breathe)
Explanation:
When you need to breathe, you take a breath. The word breathe is a verb and breath is a noun.
Find the error in this sentence:
The panel of experts denied access to the file containing their records.
What is the word their? (should be its.)
Explanation:
The subject of the sentence is panel, which is a singular thing, requiring a singular possessive pronoun. The word experts simply describes the word panel.
Use the correct tense of the verb grow in this sentence:
Sierra thought her niece ____ during the months following summer vacation.
What is had grown?
Explanation:
This is necessary to indicate something that had already happened, but seems to be over.
Use I or me correctly in this sentence:
The invitation was addressed to Adam and ___.
What is me?
The word me is generally used when the word is an object. I is used as a subject, as in this sentence. Adam and I sent the invitation. One easy way to tell which one to use is to remove the other person from the sentence: The invitation was addressed to ____. (me).
Parentheses are used for what purpose in a sentence?
What is to enclose nonessential details that would interrupt the sentence’s progress if merely inserted in the sentence
Explanation:
Example: Joe loved to take Maxie, his largest dog (I think), to the lake with him.
Is this sentence correct, as written?
My uncle, whose name is Jake, does not have any children.
What is Yes?
Explanation:
The word uncle is only capitalized when used as part of a person’s name: We saw Uncle Jake at the store last night.
What is the meaning of the word entrance in this sentence?
The young actress served to entrance the audience.
What is charm or intensely interest?
Explanation:
This word can also mean a place to enter, but not as used in this sentence. As used in this sentence, it is pronounced with the accent on the second, not first, syllable.
What is the correct spelling of the missing possessive of goat in this sentence?
All of the goats shared one pen, so it was the ____ pen.
What are goats'?
Explanation:
In a possessive, the apostrophe (’) directly follows who or what has possession. In this case, it is the goats. The word goat’s would indicate that the pen belonged to only one of the goats.
What punctuation mark is missing in this sentence?
Don’t forget to bring these items sunscreen, insect repellant, and a hat.
What is a colon (:) after the word items.
Explanation:
A colon is used to indicate a list of things to follow.
What is the correct spelling of the plural form of the word crisis?
What is Crises?
Explanation:
The words analysis and thesis are two other words for which the i changes to e in the plural form.
Correct the error in this sentence:
I hardly had no homework the entire last semester.
What is any? The word NO should be changed to ANY.
Explanation:
The word no, combined with hardly, forms a double negative, which changes the sentence to mean I had homework the entire last semester.
Change this sentence from passive voice to active
voice:
At the end of the program, flowers were presented to the actors by the stagehands.
What is At the end of the program, the stagehands presented flowers to the actors?
Explanation:
In the active voice, the subject acts. In the passive voice, the subject is acted upon. The active voice is often preferred in academic writing, as opposed to passive voice.
Correctly spell the plural of mother-in-law as used in
this sentence:
• Both ____ attended the birth of the first grandchild on either side of the family.
What is mothers-in-law?
Explanation:
The word being made plural here is mother. The hyphenated words in-law simply describe the mothers.