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.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

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.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

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.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

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.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

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.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

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.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1F

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.4.1F

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.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A