English 10 Conventions/Grammar Review

Choose the option that will fix the comma error.

In the crevices between the bathroom tiles, mold sprouts as opportunistically as weeds do in the cracks, of sidewalks.

• Add a comma between crevices and between.

• Remove the comma between tiles and 

  mold.

• Remove the comma between cracks and of.

• No change is necessary.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2

Choose the option that will fix the comma error.

The blue, creamy frosting hung like a stalactite at the tip of Max's nose, causing Kelly to giggle uncontrollably.

• Remove the comma between blue and creamy.

• Add a comma between hung and

   like.

• Remove the comma between nose and 

  causing.

• No change is necessary.

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CCSS.L.9-10.2

Choose the option that will fix the comma error.

To clean up the kitchen quickly, Maria let Romeo, the family's dog prewash the dishes with his fat, pink tongue.

• Remove the comma between quickly and Maria.

• Add a comma between dog and prewash.

• Remove the comma between fat and pink.

• No change is necessary.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1

CCSS.L.9-10.2

Choose the option that will fix the comma error.

June remembered to grab a jacket before she left the house, so that she wouldn't freeze for forty minutes in English class.

• Add a comma between remembered and to.

• Remove the comma between house and so.

• Add a comma between minutes and in.

• No change is necessary.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1

CCSS.L.9-10.2

Choose the option that will fix the comma error.

After I saw a cockroach peeking out of my burger, one restaurant  that I will no longer visit is Burger Palace, on 5th Street.

• Add a comma between cockroach and peeking.

• Add a comma between restaurant 

  and that.

• Remove the comma between Palace and on.

• No change is necessary.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1

CCSS.L.9-10.2

Choose the fragment.

• While thunder boomed in the distance, Margaret started her daily five-mile run. 

• Confident that she had plenty of time before the storm arrived. 

• Wet hair and clothes proved that she could not outpace Mother Nature.

Choose the fragment.

• Making his anxious students relax would have required very little effort.

• Like a "Good job" written at the bottom of an essay.

• The teacher refused to do more than scowl and read from his lecture notes.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1

Is the following sentence parallel?

At the family reunion, we ate Grandma’s barbecued ribs, Aunt Sally’s potato salad, and heaping plates of jiggling banana Jell-O prepared by Cousin Sue.

• Yes

• No

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1A

Is the following sentence parallel?

The sky grew pink, seagulls began to cry, and waves rolled onshore as Diane took her morning stroll on the beach.

• Yes

• No

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1A

"Don't let the cat out", warned Beatrice. "Yesterday, he brought home another dead squirrel," she then explained to me.

• Move comma between out & 

  warned like this (out,")

• Move comma between squirrel & 

  she like this (squirrel", she)

• Add a comma between explained and to.

• No change is necessary.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1

CCSS.L.9-10.2