STAAR Grammar Review

How does the following sentence need to be changed? If you are a sports fan, you may get to watch Monday Night Football in the Fall.

• Change are to were

• Delete the comma

• Insert a comma after Football

• Change Fall to fall

What is the correct way to write this sentence? ) Furthermore, quite a few legal holidays, including Presidents’ Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, and Columbus Day, they are celebrated on Mondays.

• Furthermore, quite a few legal holidays are celebrated on Mondays. Including Presidents’ Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, and Columbus Day.

• Furthermore, quite a few legal holidays, including Presidents’ Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, and Columbus Day, are celebrated on Mondays.

• Furthermore, quite a few legal holidays, including Presidents’ Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, and Columbus Day. They are celebrated on Mondays.

• Sentence 13 is written correctly in the paper.

What change should be made in this sentence? And according to consumer websites Monday is the best day to get a good deal on a car because there aren’t as many people shopping on the first day of the workweek.

• Change consumer to consummer

• Insert a comma after websites

• Change as many to hardly as many

• Change shopping to shoping

What change should be made in this sentence? For example, last week I got behind on my homework, and had to spend the weekend catching up.

• Change example to exampel

• Change got to gotten

• Delete the comma after homework

• Change had to have

What change needs to be made in this sentence? While last weeks topics may have been boring, Monday can bring a new book to read, experiment to conduct, or math concept to tackle.

• Change weeks to week’s

• Change boring to borring

• Change the first comma to a period

• Change experiment to experament

What change should be made in this sentence? ) I realize that I was probably not going to convince everyone that Monday is the best day of the week, but hopefully I can encourage a few people to change their attitude.

• Change was to am

• Delete the comma after week

• Change their to there

• Change attitude to atitude

What change should be made in this sentence? There’s no way to avoid Mondays, so join me in making the best of it.

• Change There’s to There isn’t

• Change me to myself

• Insert a comma after me

• Change it to them

How should this sentence be changed? They think of instructors who teach curious tourists to dive and underwater photographers who take pictures of elaberate coral reefs.

• Change They to You

• Change pictures to picture’s

• Change elaberate to elaborate

• This sentence should not be changed.

What change needs to be made in this sentence? Today there are a wide variety of careers that involved diving in not only oceans but also aquariums, rivers, lakes, ponds, and even water tanks.

• Change variety to vareity

• Change that to they

• Change involved to involve

• No change needs to be made.

What change should be made in this sentence? But among the plants and fish, there may also be a diver busyly cleaning the inside of the giant tank.

• Delete the comma

• Change there to their

• Change busyly to busily

• No change should be made.