SOL Multiple Choice Review Part 2

SOL Multiple Choice Review Part 2

Challenge Areas

• Combining Sentences

• Commas

1. Combining Sentences

• Strategy: How can I include all the information?

• How can I make it short?

• Ex: My parents like to fish. They fish for trout, pike, and cod.

• Combined: My parents like to fish for trout, pike, and cod.

Multiple Choice

How can sentences 1 and 2 best be combined?

1) Students are really stressed. They have to complete assignments, participate in class, and help their families.

• Through assignments, participation and helping their families, students are stressed.

• Completing assignments, participating in class and helping their families are areas where students are stressed.

• Students are very stressed from completing assignments, participating in class, and helping their families.

• Students are stressed but they have to complete assignments, participate in class and help their families.

2. Commas

• Strategy: Think of commas like natural pauses.

• A. Interrupter: A piece of information that is helpful but not necessary in a sentence. Ask: Can I take it away and it still make sense?

• Example: My cousin, the one who works on a boat, is coming to dinner.

• B. Adjectives: Use a comma in between adjectives, but not in between an adjective and the noun.

• Example: The brown dog. NOT The brown, dog. Right?

• Example: The large, brown dog. NOT The large, brown, dog.

Multiple Choice

In sentence 1, how is large angry octopus correctly written?

1. The large angry octopus came thrashing towards me.

• As it is.

• The large, angry, octopus

• The large angry, octopus

• The large, angry octopus

Multiple Choice

In sentence 1, how is an old mossy stump correctly written?

1. When I was running home, I jumped over an old mossy stump.

• an old, mossy stump

• an old, mossy, stump

• an old mossy, stump

• As it is.

Multiple Choice

Read sentence 1, how is a carnival not a dance correctly written?

1. The school decided that a carnival not a dance would be more enjoyable.

• carnival not a dance,

• a carnival, not a dance

• a carnival, not a dance,

• As it is.

Multiple Choice

Read sentence 1, how is out the one with the browning leaves correctly written?

1. I had to throw the plant out the one with browning leaves because it started to mold.

• As it is.

• out, the one with the browning leaves

• out the one with the browning leaves,

• out, the one with the browning leaves,