DCA II Review

What change needs to be made to the following sentence?:

In 1980 four black teenagers, freshmen at North Texas agricultural and technical College, walked into a Woolworth store in Denton, Texas, and made history.

• A Delete the first comma

• B Change agricultural and technical to Agricultural and Technical

• C Change in to it was in

• D Make no change

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CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

2. What change, if any, needs to be made in this sentence?

Many CVS stores in the 1950’s also have lunch counters so that their customers could grab a bite to eat while shopping.

• F Change have to had

• G Change their to there

• H Change customers to customer’s

• J No change is needed in this sentence.

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CCSS.L.11-12.3A

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1B

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

3. What change should be made to this sentence?

However, like most public eateries across the South, Greensboro’s lunch counter had its own strict policy, its stools were for whites only.

• A However, like most public eateries across the South, Greensboro had a lunch counter. Which

  had its own strict policy of stools for whites only.

• B However, like most public eateries across the South, Greensboro’s lunch counter had its own

  strict policy. With stools that were for whites only.

• C However, like most public eateries across the South, Greensboro’s lunch counter had its own

  strict policy: its stools were for whites only.

• D The sentence is written correctly in the paper.

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CCSS.L.9-10.2B

4. What change should be made to the following sentence?:

There the four young African American’s sat down on the vinyl-and-silver swivel stools facing the door.

• F Change African American’s to African Americans

• G Change sat down to who sat down

• H Change facing to they were facing

• J No change needs to be made in sentence 10.

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CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.2.2C

CCSS.L.3.2D

5. What change, if any, needs to be made in the following sentence?

And she remembers a tall player, a young man, starring at him.

• A Change player to players

• B Delete the comma after player

• C Change starring to staring

• D No change needs to be made

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CCSS.L.11-12.3A

CCSS.L.7.1C

6. What change should be made to this sentence?

He recalls his surprise when she walked over and said, “I am so proud of you.”

• F Change He to And

• G Insert a comma after surprise

• H Delete the comma after said

• J Delete the quotation marks at the end of the sentence

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CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

7. Which of these is the correct way to write the sentence?:

• A) The protesters continued for eight months, thousands of blacks and whites protested until the store owners finally desegregated the lunch counter.

• B) The protesters continued for eight months with thousands of blacks and whites protesting until the store owners finally desegregated the lunch counter.

• C) The protesters continued for eight months with thousands of blacks and whites protesting. Until the store owners finally desegregated the lunch counter.

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CCSS.L.4.1F

8. What is the correct way to rewrite sentence?

• F) One section went to the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. While the other was preserved by the Denton Bird Honor Society.

• G) One section went to the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C.; the other was preserved by the Denton Bird Honor Society

• H) One section went to the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C., and the other was preserved. By the Denton Bird Honor Society.

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CCSS.L.9-10.2A

Which word means to search?

• A perish

• B sample

• C mimics

• D forage

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CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.K.1B

Which word means to copy?

• forage

• mimic

• sample

• perish

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CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.K.1B