GACE ELA Middle Grades

He had intended to work for three hours each day, but then he realizes that he wasn’t getting the project done on schedule.

Question: The sentence above could best be revised by

• making the verb tenses consistent

• • deleting inappropriately elevated language

• • making all pronoun references clear

• • eliminating split infinitives

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CCSS.L.2.1D

CCSS.L.3.1E

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

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-------, the process by which a word from one part of speech is changed to another, can also be achieved by adding ------- to words. For example, “fuse” becomes “refuse” and “govern” becomes “governor.”

Question: Which of the following sets of words correctly fills the blanks in the sentence above?

• Functional shift … affixes

• • Orthography … roots

• • Lexical change … blends

• • Usage … gerunds

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CCSS.L.11-12.4B

CCSS.L.9-10.4B

CCSS.L.K.4B

CCSS.RF.1.3F

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In his much-praised book Albion’s Seed , David Hackett Fischer argues that regional accents were in place in America by the time of the Revolution. He points out that American colonists came in four distinct waves from four different parts of Britain. By assembling in America in enclaves that reflected their geographic origins, the four main waves of immigrants managed to preserve distinctive regional identities. That is why, for instance, horses in New England “neigh,” while those in the middle states of America “whinny.”

Question: The passage provides a discussion of which of the following?

• • Euphemism

• • Slang

• • Dialect

• • Etymology

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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Question: Each of the following sentences contains an ambiguity EXCEPT:

• I like to listen to the radio doing my homework.

• • Students who like to read often can improve their grades.

• • Not all of the students were present.

• • You can call your friend and tell her about the new books you bought for 60 cents.

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Which of the following sentences contains a split infinitive?

• • Although Anne was looking forward to the vacation, she was worried about leaving her job for such a long period.

• • One of the best parts of getting ready for the trip was going to the store to buy all of the gear needed for skin diving.

• • For your safety, we ask you to kindly stay in your seats until the “fasten your seat belts” sign has been turned off.

• • To be fully prepared, the campers made sure that they had checked all of the batteries in their equipment.

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Traveling at a speed of 80 miles per hour, he saw the car go by in a blur.

Swimming swiftly through the aquarium, the children were delighted by the fish.

Question: Which of the following correctly describes the cause of confusion in the sentences above?

• The participial phrase at the beginning of each sentence does not refer to the grammatical subject.

• • A comma rather than a semicolon is used to separate the independent clauses.

• • The number of the subject does not match the number of the verb.

• • A comma should not have been used to set off the introductory phrase from the rest of each sentence.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.3A

CCSS.L.7.1C

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When revising a writing assignment, a student refers to the following entry in a reference book.

52 FAINTNESS OF SOUND

NOUNS 1  faintness, lowness, softness, gentleness, subduedness, dimness, feebleness, weakness; indistinctness, unclearness, flatness; subaudibility, inaudibility; decrescendo; distant sound

2   muffled tone, veiled voice, voce velata <Ital>, covered tone; mutedness; dullness

Question: From which of the following reference books is the entry?

• • Encyclopedia

• • Dictionary

• • Thesaurus

• • Almanac

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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  Mr. Avedesian asked his sixth-grade English Language Arts class to write a paragraph describing a family vacation. One of his students, an English-language learner, wrote the following paragraph.

  We went to the Virginia beach. My sister and brother and me lik to swim and play gaims in the sand and the water. All of us had fun. Then the hot dog man cam. We were hungry and the hot dogs were good. Then we played until dark. The vacation was fun.

  Question: Based on the paragraph, which of the following instructional approaches will best help to improve the student’s written vocabulary?

• • Reviewing vowel-consonant-e word families

• • B. Introducing the Frayer Model

• • C. Showing the difference between onsets and rimes

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CCSS.L.2.2D

CCSS.L.3.2F

   He took his vorpal sword in hand:
                                        Long time the manxome foe he sought—

—Lewis Carroll, from “Jabberwocky”                                     

Question: Based on knowledge of syntax, which definition best describes the meaning of “manxome”?

• • A location

• • A characteristic

• • A species name

• • An intensifier

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Ms. Sanchez is having her students develop nonsense words to practice using prefixes. Which of the following nonsense words means “something near a ‘splock’”?

• • Antisplock

• • Intersplock

• • Megasplock

• Parasplock

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CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A