7th Grade 5-A-Day Language Week 7

Identify the figure of speech: I have a mountain of bills piling up on my desk.

• I have
• a mountain of bills
• piling up on
• my desk.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Identify this group of words: I heard the dog barking

• phrase
• dependent clause
• independent clause

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CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

Identify the word with a positive connotation.

• maiden
• spinster
• old maid

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.L.7.5C

Choose the root word in "ambidextrous".

• ambi-
• dextr
• -ous

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.8.4B

The following sentence is incorrect because it has a ______ modifier: The right belongs to every citizen of this democracy to vote in elections.

• dangling
• misplaced

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CCSS.L.11-12.3A

CCSS.L.7.1C

Which word means "having to do with the matter being thought about or discussed; relevant" ?

• ambidextrous
• levity
• intrigue
• pertinent

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Which word means "to get frighteningly close"?

• ambidextrous
• levity
• loom
• pertinent

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

Which word means "able to use the right and left hands equally well" ?

• ambidextrous
• levity
• intrigue
• pertinent

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CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Which word means "either of the two times each year when day and night are of equal length" ?

• ambidextrous
• equinox
• intrigue
• pertinent

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CCSS.L.K.5A

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

Choose the words that are redundant and can be eliminated in this sentence: In the near future, the student council plans to submit a new fundraiser proposal to the principal.

• In the near future,
• the student council plans
• to submit a new fundraiser proposal
• to the principal.

Tags

CCSS.W.6.4