TCAP ELA Review

Part B: What is the purpose of that structure in paragraphs 6 – 8?

• to illustrate that corn is much easier to grow than other crops

• to establish the idea that modern advances have resulted in too much food being produced

• to help develop the idea that there are problems with the practices used by factory farms

• to demonstrate that government scientists worked closely with agribusinesses to solve food shortages

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

Two independent clauses in a compound sentence are connected by

• transition

• verb

• conjunction

• common denominator

In the following sentence, which word is the antecedent for the pronoun she?
Kim looked as though she had seen a ghost.

• she

• Kim

• ghost

• seen

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Which of these sentences is NOT a sentence fragment?

• If you see very black soil.

• Each layer of soil has color.

• When you are in Georgia.

• During the rainy summer.

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Choose the appositive phrase in the following sentence:
My sister, a tall athletic girl, needs lots of new clothes before school starts.

• my sister

• a tall athletic girl

• before school starts

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Choose the appositive phrase in the following sentence: 
Remember when we met Owen, our camp counselor?

• remember when 

• we met Owen

• our camp counselor

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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 sentence from the excerpt provides the best support for the answer to Part A?

• “It may seem that I’ve given corn too much credit.”

• “How could a plant take over our food chain and push out almost every other species?”

• “At the heart of the industrial food chain are huge businesses, agri-businesses.”

• “But the scientists in the Department of Agriculture had a better idea: Spread the ammonium nitrate on farmland as fertilizer.”

an educated guess that involves using both background knowledge and text evidence

• inference

• theme

• central idea

• author's purpose

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

what the story is mainly about (main idea)

• narrative

• central idea

• theme

• topic

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

the lesson (or message or moral) of the story or article

• central idea

• inference

• theme

• summary

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CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2