ELA Milestones Review

Identify the gerund in the following sentence:
His favorite sport is swimming.

• Favorite
• sport
• Swimming
• His

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

How is the underlined word functioning?
The football team practiced tackling.

• Verb
• Participle
• Gerund
• Infinitive

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

CCSS.L.1.4C

Identify the infinitive - It's so lovely to go outside!

• to go
• outside
• so lovely
• no infinitive phrase

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

Identify the infinitive: Cole attempted to call home today.

• Cole
• attempted
• to call
• home today

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

Identify the infinitive in the sentence-
 In the past, Burton was terrified to play the tuba on Tuesdays.

• In the past
• was terrifed
• to play
• on Tuesdays

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

Identify the participle(s).
Enjoying her victory, Monica jumped around wildly and threw her arms up in celebration.

• Enjoying
• Enjoying, jumped
• Enjoying, threw
• Enjoying, jumped, threw

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

CCSS.L.1.4C

Identify the participle(s).
Marsha smiled sadly at the wilting flower.

• smiled
• wilting
• smiled, wilting

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

CCSS.L.1.4C

What sentence contains one independent clause and at least one subordinate clause?

• compound
• simple
• compound-complex
• complex

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CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.7.1B

CCSS.L.3.1H

What type of sentence consists of two or more independent clauses, usually joined by a comma and a connecting word.

• compound-complex
• compound
• simple
• complex

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CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.7.1B

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.9-10.2A

What is dependent clause?

• expresses a complete thought and can stand by itself as a sentence.
• a word group that contains a verb and its subject and is used as a sentence or as part of a sentence.
• does not stand alone by itself as a complete sentence.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B