5th Grade SBA Editing Practice

The sentence below contains one error in grammar usage. Read the sentence and the question that follows.

The beach is packed with people who has come to watch the surfing competition.

Which version of the sentence has been correctly edited for grammar usage?

• The beach is packed with people who has comes to watch the surfing competition.

• The beach is packed with people who has came to watch the surfing competition.

• The beach is packed with people who have come to watch the surfing competition.

• The beach is packed with people who have comes to watch the surfing competition.

Choose the sentence that has correct use of verb tense.

• Eddie explained, "If I had finished my homework, then I have had time to play basketball now," and then he added, "but I make a poor choice."

• Eddie explained, "If I had finished my homework, then I would have had time to play basketball now," and then he added, "but I made a poor choice."

• Eddie explained, "If I had finished my homework, then I will have time to play basketball now," and then he added, "but I made a poor choice."

• Eddie explained, "If I had finished my homework, then I have had time to play basketball now," and then he added, "but I was making a poor choice."

A student wrote sentences about her family. One sentence has a verb tense error. Click on the sentence that has an incorrect shift in verb tense.

• During the school year, everyone in our family is busy.

• Carol has soccer practice, and Mike has softball practice.

• I am in junior band, and we practice twice a week.

• Everyone gets home at a different time, and we're all hungry.

• However, we never have dinner before mom got home from work.

Who is Miss Wammocks boyfriend?

• Mark

• Cameron

• Steve

• Mike

Edit the sentences by clicking on the two sentences that use the incorrect verb tenses.

• Today is Tuesday, and it is warm and sunny.

• Our family wants to go on a trip this weekend.

• If the weather remained nice, we will go to the beach.

• The newspaper says it will rain on Saturday, however. We will go to a movie if it does rain.

• Mom says we deciding our plan on Friday.

Choose the two sentences that are missing a comma.

• She helps me with my homework every day after school.

• Before our class goes to the cafeteria all of the students wash their hands.

• The little boy pretended as if he had no idea how the chocolate milk spilled on the new rug.

• The fifth-graders hope that they will be allowed to sit with their friends in the cafeteria starting next week.

• Once we realized that the thunderstorm was headed toward us we gathered our picnic basket and finished eating in the car.

Choose the sentence that is punctuated correctly.

• If, it starts to thunder, swimmers must leave the pool.

• My cousin who lives on Main Street, loves to watch movies.

• Eventually, the travelers realized that, they had somehow gotten lost.

• Finally, in the last seconds of the game, Jenny made a home run to win the game.

The sentence below contains two errors in punctuation. Read the sentence and the question that follows.

By the time dinner was ready Dan had already cleaned his room, and put away all of his laundry.

Which version of the sentence has been correctly edited for punctuation?

• By the time dinner was ready, Dan had already cleaned his room and put away all of his laundry.

• By the time dinner was ready, Dan, had already cleaned his room, and put away all of his laundry.

• By the time, dinner was ready Dan had already cleaned his room, and, put away all of his laundry.

• By the time dinner was ready Dan had, already, cleaned his room and put away all of his laundry.

Choose the two sentences in which the titles are written correctly.

• My cousin's favorite book to read is The Velveteen Rabbit.

• "Black Beauty" is a good movie, but I cried when I watched it.

• This year our class will read The Railway Children by E. Nesbit.

• Dad wants us to read "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea."

• My sister's class loves to sing "The Wheels on the Bus" each morning.

Choose the sentence that does not have conjunction errors.

• Joe declared that he was neither too tired or too hungry to play another game.

• Either Kara saves enough money for a new bike, but she will still have to borrow one for the race.

• Whenever Tamara goes shopping with her friends, she either buys clothes and she buys a snack.

• Coach Lipp not only requires three miles of running each afternoon, but also demands fifty push-ups.