Grammar

​Grammar Review & Preview

7th & 8th-Grade Skills​

​7th Grade Grammar Skills

Last year you learned 5 essential grammar skills with your 7th-grade ELA teacher. The next 5 slides are going to briefly assess you to see if you remember how those 5 skills work:​

1. TAP (Title, Author, Prompt)

2. Items in a series

3. FANBOYS

4. Separating two adjectives

5. ​Appositives

Multiple Choice

Where does the comma belong in the following sentence?

"In the novel Kingdom of Bones by James Rollins a group of highly trained soldier-scientists are fighting to stop a plague from sweeping through central Africa."

• after "Bones"

• after "Rollins"

• after "scientists"

• after "plague"

Multiple Select

Where do the TWO commas belong in the following sentence?

"To be successful in class, a student should always bring their charged Chromebook a writing utensil and their binders."

• after "class"

• after "student"

• after "Chromebook"

• after "utensil"

Multiple Choice

Where does the comma belong in the following sentence?

"The student wanted to go to the football game Friday night but he knew he had to babysit his younger sister."

• after "student"

• after "game"

• after "night"

• after "babysit"

Multiple Choice

Where does the comma belong in the following sentence?

"Do you really want to wear that nasty wrinkled shirt to the wedding?" the woman asked with obvious disgust.

• after "nasty"

• after "wrinkled"

• after "wedding"

• after "asked"

Multiple Select

Where do the TWO commas belong in the following sentence?

"Edgar Allan Poe a world-renown author wrote The Raven, Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, and Annabel Lee."

• after "Poe"

• after "author"

• after "wrote"

• after "Black Cat"

​8th Grade Grammar Skills

This year you will learn 5 new essential grammar skills with your 8th-grade ELA teacher. The next 5 slides are going to briefly assess you to see if you know how those 5 skills work. It's okay if you don't know these. They are new skills:

1. Introductory Prepositional Phrase

2. Complex Sentence

3. Modifiers

4. Semicolons

5. Conjunctive Adverbs

Multiple Choice

Where does the comma belong in the following sentence?

"After running the mile the 8th-graders ran to the locker room to get a well-deserved drink of water."

• after "mile"

• after "8th-graders"

• after "room"

• after "deserved"

Multiple Choice

Where does the comma belong in the following sentence?

"Since Mr. J loves all animals he decided to quit teaching and open up a zoo."

• after "Since"

• after "animals"

• after "teaching"

• after "and"

Multiple Choice

Where does the comma belong in the following sentence?

"Gasping for air the young woman ran into the house and slammed the door in the escaped lion's face."

• after "air"

• after "woman"

• after "house"

• after "door"

Multiple Choice

Where does the SEMICOLON (;) belong in the following sentence?

"The young woman saw a turtle crossing the road she had her mom stop the car and helped it cross the street."

• after "turtle"

• after "road"

• after "mom"

• after "car"

Multiple Select

Where do the SEMICOLON (;) and comma belong in the following sentence?

"The student threw food in the cafeteria and earned a detention consequently they had to clean up the mess they made."

• comma after "cafeteria"

• comma after "consequently"

• semicolon after "detention"

• semicolon after "they"