GRADE 8 HEZEKIAH AND TITUS ENGLISH INVENTORY EXAM

These are hints found within a

sentence, paragraph, or passage that a reader can

use to understand the meanings of new or

unfamiliar words.

A characteristic of a well-written paragraph is _______.

It is a word that refers to a person, place, or thing.

It is the generic name for a person, place, or thing in a class or group.

It is a specific (i.e., not generic) name for a particular person, place, or thing.

It is a noun that can be identified through one of the five senses (taste, touch, sight, hearing, or

smell).

It is a noun that cannot be perceived using one of the five senses (i.e., taste, touch, sight,

hearing, smelling).

It is a word or phrase that refers to a group of people or things as one entity.

It refers to the items that can be counted, even if the number might be extraordinarily high (like

counting all the people in the world, for example).

"They are nouns that come in a state or quantity that is impossible to count"