✏️ Sentence Surgeons
The correct spelling to complete this sentence:
"I _____ the correct answer." (no or know).
What is "know"?
The result you get when you subtract 15 from 50.
What is 35?
The part of a plant that absorbs water and nutrients from the soil.
What are the roots?
A book written about a real person's life by that same person.
What is an autobiography?
If a math question asks you to find the "difference," you must use this operation
What is subtraction?
This part of speech describes a noun, like the words "tall," "blue," or "fast."
What is an adjective?
A triangle that has three equal sides and three equal angles.
What is an equilateral triangle?
On a standard graph, this is the name for the vertical line that goes straight up and down.
What is the Y-axis?
The text found directly under a picture or graph that explains what it is showing.
What is a caption?
When a reading question directs you to a specific line number, you should always read these to get the full context.
What are the sentences before and after?
This is the punctuation mark you use to separate items in a list.
What is a comma?
In the linear equation y = mx + b, the letter "b" represents this on a graph.
What is the y-intercept?
The final step of the scientific method where you summarize your findings.
What is the conclusion?
A literary comparison using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
If a question asks you to find the "product" of two numbers, you must use this operation.
What is multiplication?
The plural form of the word "mouse."
What is "mice"?
The slope of a line that is perpendicular to a line with a slope of 2.
What is -1/2?
The force that keeps the planets in orbit around the sun.
What is gravity?
The turning point or most exciting, tense part of a story's plot.
What is the climax?
In a vocabulary-in-context question, you should replace the underlined word with this to see if the sentence still makes sense.
What is your own word (or a synonym)?
In the sentence "Everyone must bring their book," this is the specific grammatical error.
What is pronoun agreement?
50% written as a decimal.
What is 0.5?
When a graph shows two variables increasing together, it represents this type of relationship.
What is a positive (or direct) correlation?
This is the term for a reading passage's underlying message or universal lesson about life.
What is the theme?
When a math question asks for the "roots" or "zeros" of a quadratic equation, it is asking for the points where the graph crosses this.
What is the X-axis?