STAAR English II Grammar Review

Many students, at Middleton Valley High School take their lunch break off campus, usually stopping at one of the nearby fast food restaurants.

• NO CHANGE
• B. students at Middleton Valley High School,
• students at, Middleton Valley High School,
• students at Middleton Valley High School

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CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

The old man paid me three hundred dollars for both sets and said, he’d pay twice that if the original wrapping hadn’t been broken.

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•  sets and said:
• sets and said
• sets, and said,

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CCSS.L.9-10.2A

Her nomination sparked a conversation, about the student’s role and administrative supervision in the electoral process.

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• conversation, about the student’s role,
• conversation about the student’s role
• conversation about the student’s role,

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CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

We fill the monthly newspaper’s pages, article by article.

• A. NO CHANGE
• newspapers pages,
• newspapers pages
• page’s for the newspaper,

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CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.2.2C

CCSS.L.3.2D

“Have a good one,” the cashier said in a singsong. “Don’t forget your receipt.” It wasn’t until I got home that it occurred to me—I had walked out with someone else’s groceries!

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• elses’
• elses
• else

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CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.2.2C

CCSS.L.3.2D

Bonnie Sue—Granville High’s student body president and the first handicapped female to lead the schools Senior Debate Team—began to study economics and law to prepare herself for a career in politics.

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• school’s
• schools’
• schools’s

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CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.2.2C

CCSS.L.3.2D

The story of this popular Japanese play is simple enough. A young man, a mortal, is sent to a mythical castle to quell the mysterious spirit of the beautiful Princess Tomi. She reigns over witches and ghouls who feast on the skulls of samurai warriors they have killed. Soon, he and the princess form an attachment that propels them on a path of impossible love. The black box theater holds fifty-five seats.

• A. NO CHANGE
• The theatre has a seating capacity of fifty-five.
• Fifty-five people can watch the play at one time.
• DELETE the underlined portion.

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CCSS.L.2.4D

That same year, Sally Ride beat out more than a thousand other applicants for a spot in NASA’s astronaut program. After passing the program’s rigorous physical training regimen, she finally got her chance to go into space in 1983. On June 18, Ride became the first American woman in space, aboard the space shuttle Challenger. As a mission specialist, she helped deploy satellites and worked other projects. She died in 2012 from pancreatic cancer.

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• returned from this adventure on June 24.
• grew up in Los Angeles and went to Stanford University.
• was born in 1951.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.8.3

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.3

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

It was the first step of a steep decline in mental health for Dr. Nash. There were more hospitalizations. Nash underwent electroshock therapy and fled for a while to Europe, sending cryptic postcards to colleagues and family members. For many years, he roamed the Princeton campus, a lonely figure scribbling unintelligible formulas on the same blackboards in Fine Hall on which he had once demonstrated startling mathematical feats. [3]
At this point, the writer is considering adding the following true statement:     He was awarded the Nobel Prize—a towering career achievement—in 1994. 
Would this be a relevant addition to make here?

• Yes, because it provides information that helps the reader understand the importance of receiving a Nobel Prize.
• Yes, because it supports the passage’s focus on Nash’s professional career.
• No, because it introduces information that does not focus on Nash’s mental illness.
• No, because it undermines the seriousness of Nash’s struggles with mental illness.

We’ll probably never know where he and his boat ended up, but in our imagination, he continues to be awesome across the seas.

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•  is still sailing happily
• manifests his superior navigation skills
• carefully measures the nautical miles and adjusts his sails according to the wind

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5