7th Grade 1st Semester Review

A complete sentence must contain which of the following?

• A subject and fragment

• A predicate and a modifier

• A subject and a verb

• A predicate and a fragment

What is a clause?

• a group of words that has a subject and a predicate

• always a complete sentence

• a fragment

• a group of words with a subject or predicate but not both

What is the genre of "All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury?

• historical fiction

• science fiction

• realistic fiction

• Margot vs. a bully on Venus

To fix a misplaced or dangling modifier,

• eliminate the describing words

• move the describing words close to what they are describing

• move the modifier to the beginning

• move the modifier to the end

Which is a misplaced or dangling modifier?

• Turning the corner, I saw the building.

• With pretty bows and ribbons, the packages were ready for Christmas.

• Grinning from ear to ear, I remembered I aced the test.

• Making two baskets and a free throw, the game was won by the team.

To check whether coordinate adjectives need a comma,

• say "and" in between them and switch the order

• say "and" in between them

• switch the order of them

• see if it has a sentence on both sides

Which coordinate adjective needs a comma?

• big red truck

• deep blue sea

• ornery mischievous students

Which is not a compound sentence?

• She studied, and she did well.

• She studied and did well on the test.

• She studied; she did well.

• Sara and her classmates did well on the test.

A complex sentence must contain...?

• two independent clauses

• a clause and a phrase

• a dependent and an independent clause

• a subordinating conjunction and a colon

Which complex sentence is not punctuated correctly?

• After she took the test, she finished her English assignment.

• After she took the test she finished her English assignment.

• She finished her English assignment after she took the test.

• She did not do well although she studied for the test.