Homework - 1/14/19

Brian says that he read a book that contains 54,000 words  He says that he rounded the actual number of words to the nearest thousand.  Which could be the number of words in Brian's book?

• 53,481
• 54,900
• 54,199
• 55,310

Klein School District brought 100 bricks to French Elementary to edge the front sidewalk.  They used 96 of the 100 bricks.  Which shows how this amount can be represented?

• 9.6
• 0.96
• 9.06
• 0.096

• A
• B
• C
• D

Its delicate stem became a woody trunk and its bare branches were soon filled with pointy pine needles.  
How can this sentence be changed?

• Insert a comma after trunk
• Change bare to bear
• Change filled to fill
• Make no change

By the end of the Summer, the tiny sprout had become the first new tree in a brand new forest.
What change needs to be made to this sentence?  

• Insert a comma after tree
• Change had become to becoming
• Change Summer to summer
• Make no change

Bright red berrys began to grow on shrubs, and tiny wildflowers started to dot the landscape.
What change needs to be made to this sentence?

• Delete and
• Change berrys to berries
• Change wildflowers to wildflower's
• Make no change

Woodpeckers pecked at bugs in the dead trees, and blue jays plucked juicy fruit from live ones. 
What change needs to be made to this sentence?

• Change pecked to peeked
• Delete the comma
• Change pluck to pluk
• Make no change

As the tree grew, it watched a new forest sprung up all around them.  
What change should be made to this sentence?

• Change grew to growed
• Change sprung to spring
• Change then to it
• Make no change

What does the word autograph mean in the paragraph below?
Mia and Stephanie couldn't wait to meet their favorite singer. They had been waiting in line for hours to get her autograph.

• write something about music
• sing a song about someone
• write one's own name
• write someone else's name

(24) He made his way steadily down. (25) A grin began to spread over his face.
***What is the most effective way to combine sentences 24 and 25?

• Since he made his way steadily down with a grin, it began to spread over his face
• He made his way steadily down because a grin began to spread over his face.
• As he made his way steadily down, a grin began to spread over his face.
• He made his way steadily down a grin began to spread over his face.