Grammar 40 - 45

Write a contraction for the pronoun and verb in boldface.

They say that it is never too late to change.

• it's

• its'

Write a contraction for the boldface.

Unfortunately he is all talk and no action.

• he's

• he'd

• he've

Write a contraction for the bold face.

They had seen it all before.

• They've

• They'd

Ralph Waldo Emerson is another poet ____ wrote about war.

• who

• when

Emerson wrote a hymn for a monument _____ was built to remember the soldiers lost at the Battle of Concord.

• that

• who

Unfair taxation forced on the colonies was one reason _____ the American Revolution started.

• when

• why

The Old South Meeting House in Boston is the place _____ the decision was made to throw British tea overboard.

• whom

• where

______ plan is to raise $500 for the playground.

• Our

• Ours

No, but other classes will have _____ Fund-raises later.

• their

• theirs

Are _____ your old baseball cards in front of me?

• these

• those