Grammar

Which of the following is a run-on sentence? 

• I'm bored at Grandma's house. She doesn't have a TV.
• The animals are fascinating I will try to draw them. 
• I like chocolate and vanilla ice cream. 
• I have one dog, and she has three dogs. 

Does the verb in the sentence agree with the subject?
Students plays on the play ground. 

• Agree 
• Disagree 

On the day Emily was to return home, she wrote a kind note to her cousins. The message in the note said You’re the best cousins ever. Thanks for letting me stay with you this summer.

Which revision correctly punctuates the quotation in the sentences?

• The message in the note said, “You’re the best cousins ever!” “Thanks for letting me stay with you this summer.”

• The message in the note said, “You’re the best cousins ever! Thanks for letting me stay with you this summer.”

• “The message in the note said You’re the best cousins ever! Thanks for letting me stay with you this summer.”

• “The message in the note said You’re the best cousins ever!” “Thanks for letting me stay with you this summer.”

Read the sentences from a magazine article about hail.

According to meteorologist Wendy Cas, hailstones are quite remarkable in terms of their structure. She explained Each hailstone has rings similar to the rings inside the trunk of an oak tree, and these rings show the different layers that formed the hailstone.

Choose the correct way to punctuate the direct speech in the sentences below.

• “She explained, Each hailstone has rings similar to the rings inside the trunk of an oak tree, and these rings show the different layers that formed the hailstone.”

• She explained “Each hailstone has rings similar to the rings inside the trunk of an oak tree, and these rings show the different layers that formed the hailstone.”

• “She explained Each hailstone has rings similar to the rings inside the trunk of an oak tree, and these rings show the different layers that formed the hailstone.”

• She explained, “Each hailstone has rings similar to the rings inside the trunk of an oak tree, and these rings show the different layers that formed the hailstone.”

Which sentence uses the SUBJECT and VERB correctly?

 

• Dogs were barking outside.

• Dogs was barking outside.

• Dogs is barking outside.

• Dogs barks outside.

Which sentence uses the SUBJECT and VERB correctly?

• Jonathan have jumped over the rock.

• Jonathan did jump over the rock.

• Jonathan jumps over the rock.

•  Jonathan were jumping over the rock.

What change if any should be made to this sentence?

"My sisters and I had no idea that it would be more amazing than we thought or that we were about to have the time of our lifes!"

• sisters to sister's

• lifes to lives

• lifes to life's

• I to me

What change, if any, should be made to this sentence?

"They looked like rainbow giantes as we drove by looking for the one that our parents had rented for five whole days."

• giantes to giants

• parents to parent's

• days to daies

• looked to looks

What change, if any, should be made to this sentence?

"Have you ever stood in your grocery stores produce section and wondered why you can’t just grow your own vegetables?"

• stores to store's

• can't to cant

• vegetables to vegetable's

• you to I

i cant borrow my brothers CD player.

• i can't borrow my brother's

• I can't borrow my brother's

• I cant borrow my brother's

• I can't borrow my brothers