Writing Review 2

Subject-Verb Agreement

100

Select the correct verb: Mary and I (plays/play) volleyball every Saturday.

play (plural verb)

200

Choose the correct verb: The greatest day of the week (is/are) Friday!

is (singular)

300

Choose the correct verb: The tortoise and the hare (finishes/finish) the race at different times.

finish (plural verb)

400

Choose the correct verb: The voices of the choir (sounds/sound) beautiful in the theater.

sound (plural verb)

500

Choose the correct verb: Mark or Andy (spills/spill) the soda onto the floor.

spills (singular verb when you use "or")

Plural v. Possessive

100

Choose the correct word: It has taken me three (days/day's) to finish this book.

days (plural)

200

Choose the correct word: My (sisters/sister's) lost the cards, so we can't play Go Fish.

sisters (plural)

300

Choose the correct word: I didn't the (dogs/dog's) bone after looking in the yard all afternoon.

dog's (possessive)

400

Choose the correct word: We can play an excellent game of hide and seek at my house because there are a lot of (trees/tree's).

trees (plural)

500

Choose the correct word: If we don't find the (keys/key's) to the car, we will be late for school again.

keys (plural)

Affixes

100

Choose the correct word: That is the (taller/tallest) building I have ever seen!

tallest (superlative -est: most)

200

Choose the correct word: I know I am (faster/fastest) than Joey because I can run a mile in 6 minutes.

faster (comparative -er: more)

300

Choose the correct word: I slept with the light on because the ghost story made me (fearful/fearless).

fearful (-ful: with)

400

Choose the correct word: I was running and looking behind me, so I ran into my friend and dropped my books. I was just being (careful/careless).

careless (-less: without)

500

Choose the correct word: Before you read the passage, you should (preview/review) the questions.

preview (pre-: before)

Capitalization

100

Which of the following should be capitalized?

store, lake, friend, sister, houston, yellow

Houston (name of a city)

200

Which of the following should be capitalized?

dog, friend, david, pencil, sunshine, forest

David (a person's name)

300

Which word(s) should be capitalized?

I already had a birthday party in january.

January (month of the year)

400

Which word(s) should be capitalized?

Have you ever the declaration of independence before?

Declaration, Independence (Important historical documents, only the key words)

500

Which word(s) should be capitalized?

I will go to california next saturday and play in the sand at the beach.

California (name of a state)

Saturday (day of the week)

Grammar

100

What change should be made?

Hannah and Elaine fixed the computer herself.

Change herself to themselves (pronouns should agree)

200

What change should be made?

Everybody sang good in the choir concert yesterday.

Change good to well (adverbs describe verbs, adjectives describe nouns)

300

What change should be made?

Yesterday we will go to the park to play on the playground.

Change will go to went (Verb tense)

400

What change should be made?

The frog and toad jumps across the field on a warm, sunny afternoon.

Change jumps to jump (Subject-verb agreement)

500

What change should be made?

Neither Frank or Riley could decide where to go for vacation next week.

Change or to nor (Coordinating conjunctions, word pairs)