BIST Yr7 English Quiz - Homework Weeks 1-18

What is a sentence?

• A sentence is a single word.
• A sentence is a type of punctuation.
• A sentence is a collection of random letters.
• A sentence is a complete thought expressed in words.

What are the four functions of sentences?

• Statement, question, imperative, and exclamatory.

• Simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex.
• Positive, negative, conditional, and hypothetical.

• Descriptive, narrative, comparative, and analytical.

Which of these proper names have the correct capital letters?

• New York

• the Eiffel tower

• christmas

• Hyde park

Which short form is written correctly?

• is'nt

• she'is

• her's

• aren't

Insert the apostrophes of possession in this sentence:

Alans familys holiday this year is to a friends house.

• Alan's family's holiday this year is to a friend's house.
• Alans family holiday this year is to a friends house.
• Alans familys holiday this year is to a friends house.
• Alans family's holiday this year is to friends house.

How should this sentence be punctuated correctly?

Do werewolves exist asked Kylie.

• Do werewolves exist asked Kylie?
• Do werewolves exist! asked Kylie.
• "Do werewolves exist?" asked Kylie.
• Do werewolves exist, asked Kylie.

Insert all the necessary punctuation into this sentence:

Bah humbug is the famous saying from Scrooge in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

• Bah, humbug! is a famous saying from Scrooge in 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens.

• "Bah, humbug" is the famous saying from Scrooge in 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens.

• Bah humbug! is the famous saying from Scrooge in 'A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

• "Bah, humbug!" is the famous saying from Scrooge in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

How do we write compound nouns?

• Compound nouns are written as separate words, hyphenated, or as a single word.
• Compound nouns are always written as separate words.
• Compound nouns must be hyphenated.

• Compound nouns can only be written as single words.

Find all the pairs of homophones.

• pair, pear
• two, to

• stare, stair
• bare, bear

Which of these plurals is written incorrectly? Find all.

• tooth

• gooses
• mice
• childs