6.5R.2 Guided Practice

1. Read the following.

He and his mother, Jane, were slaves.

Identify the subject and verb in the above sentence.

• Jane, slaves/were

• He, mother/were

• He, his/were

• He, slaves/were

2. Read the following.

Booker T. Washington was born in Virginia in 1856, five years before

the Civil War beginned.

What change, if any, should be made to the above sentence?

• change was born to were born

• change beginned to began

• change War to war

• no change

3. Read the following.

His dream was to go to school.

What is the antecedent of the pronoun in the above sentence?

• Jane Washington

• slaves

•  Booker T. Washington

• Hampton Normal Industrial Institute

4. Read the following.

Even at such a young age, he endured beatings when his work was

considered unsatisfactory.

Identify the sentence structure of the above sentence.

• compound

• compound-complex

•  complex

• simple

5. Read the following.

He used books to teach himself to read and write.

Identify the subject and verb in the above sentence.

•  He/used

•  books/to teach

• He/to read

•  books/to write

6. Read the following.

He worked odd jobs to make money and “convinced" administrators at

Hampton Normal Industrial Institute "to let him attend.”

Identify the tense of the underlined verb in the above sentence.

• past tense

• future tense

• past participle tense

• present tense

7. Read the following.

The end of all education, whether of head or hand or heart, is to make an

individual good.

Identify the part of speech underlined in the above sentence.

• independent clause

• dependent clause

•  interjection

• prepositional phrase

8. Read the following.

Memorizing passages or writing with skill is not the supreme aim of education.

Identify the rule that determines the subject/verb agreement in the above sentence.

•  Two singular subjects joined by or or nor need a singular verb.

• Compound subjects joined by and are plural and need a plural verb.

• Two plural subjects joined by or or nor indicates the compound subject needs a

  plural verb.

• When one singular subject and one plural subject are joined by or or nor, the

  subject nearest the verb determines the verb needed.

9. Read the following.

Them are a way to prepare students for something higher and better.

What change, if any, should be made to the above sentence?

• change are to is

• change Them to They

• change Them to Them’s

• no change

10. How does a writer know the best way to have subject and verb agreement in writing?

• make the subject agree with the verb

• make both words sound the same

• make both words the same length

• make the verb agree with the subject