ELA 11A Exam Review 2022

Enough is enough! It’s time to write and complain about the neighbor’s sons. Before penning your final letter, you have to work out if your apostrophes are correct. Of the following sentences, which one is the only one you wrote correctly the first time?

• Your son’s are always shouting loudly.

• The boys Frisbee is still stuck on my garage roof.

• You’re oldest boy’s encourages his brothers to misbehave.

• The boys’ football is always ending up in my garden.

Would you use an apostrophe if you were to write about the four children who live next door?

• No, you would write - The four boys live next door.

• Yes, you would write - The four boy’s live next door.

• Yes, you would write - The four boys’ live next door.

• Yes, you would write - The four’ boys live next door.

The oldest boy is most definitely the ringleader, and you want to make sure your neighbor is aware of this. Which of the following sentences is NOT correct?

• All the boys follow James’s example.

• James is the worst of all the boy’s as he encourages them to misbehave.

• The boys’ behavior is made worse with James’s encouragement.

• I believe James to be the ringleader and that he incites his brothers’ bad behavior.

Buy your own pens! You cannot borrow ours.

• Ours does NOT need an apostrophe

• Ours should be changed to our’s

• Ours should be changed to ours’

• Ours should be changed to ours’s

   

The ___________ hands are very dirty. (children) Remember children is already plural!!!!

• childrens

• childrens’s

• children’s

• childrens’

Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

• When we forget how close the wilderness is in the night, someday it will come in and get us, for we will have forgotten how terrible and real it can be.

• When we forget how close the wilderness, is in the night someday it will come in and get us for we will have forgotten how terrible and real it can be.

• When we forget how close the wilderness is in the night someday it will come in and get us for we will have forgotten, how terrible and real it can be.

Choose the sentence that demonstrates correct comma placement.

• Oh I should be back in an hour or so at the most.

• Oh, I should be back in an hour or so at the most.

• Oh I should be back in an hour, or so at the most.

Choose the sentence that demonstrates correct comma placement.

• After swimming across the lake in the storm, Cameron was exhausted.

• After swimming across the lake, in the storm Cameron was exhausted.

• After swimming, across the lake in the storm Cameron was exhausted.

Choose the sentence that demonstrates correct comma placement.

• On January 10, 1776 Thomas Paine published his pamphlet, Common Sense.

• On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine published his pamphlet, Common Sense.

• On January 10, 1776 Thomas Paine published his pamphlet Common Sense.

“As if that were not enough, the state legislature was called into emergency session, and Atticus left us for two weeks.” This sentence from To Kill a Mockingbird is an example of this type of sentence.

• compound

• complex

• compound-complex

• simple