Day 31 Grammar Review

Match the words from the sentence below to their correct part of speech.

When you eat ice cream, salad dressing, or pudding, you may be eating seaweed.

• pudding

• noun

• or

• verb

• you

• pronoun

• when

• conjunction

• eating

• determiner

What is the verb tense in the following sentence?

Seaweed, also called kelp, is used to thicken prepared foods.

• Past

• Present

• Future

Rewrite the sentence correctly. (4 mistakes)

Use correct punctuation, capitalization, and subject/verb agreement.

you can finded an abundant amount of seaweed off the coast of florida

Name the type of sentence.

Some people really like eating seaweed.

• imperative

  sentence

• interrogative sentence

• exclamatory sentence

• declatrative sentence

Identify the sentence structure.

Seaweed has a lot of beneficial nutrients.

• simple sentence

• compound sentence

• complex sentence

• compound-complex sentence

Drag and drop the possessive/plural noun into the correct spot.

calories ​ (a)  

calories' ​ (b)  

calorie's ​ (c)  

• plural noun
• plural possessive noun
• singular possessive noun

Pick the correct homophone for each sentence.

Seaweed is a low calorie food ​ (a)   is also beneficial.

Some people thought a ​ (b)   would use seaweed for a magical brew.

• which
• witch
• whitch

Identify the meaning of the prefix

In the words beneficial and benevolent, the prefix bene- means...

• hurt

• good

• bad

• love

Identify the type of figurative language in this sentence.

I'm going out on a limb here and predicting you have never had seaweed.​ ​ (a)   ​

• idiom
• alliteration
• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole
• personification
• irony

Journal Write (use complete sentences)

Imagine you have a chance to talk to a caveman. List all the questions you would like to ask.