5-A-Day Language Review: Week 9

Countless tables held a plethora of food: salads, casseroles, bread, dips, appetizers, and drinks. The attractive spread of food made my mouth water. We were all eager to eat and enjoy the great variety of deliciousness that was set forth. Plethora means:

• An abundance/excess/a lot

• A small number

• A single

• None

Circle the misspelled word and write it correctly in the space below.

• accidentaly

• respective

• corrode

• accidental

Rewrite the sentence adding a nonrestrictive element using dashes: My mother doesn’t have enough time to volunteer at school.

• My mother doesn't have enough time - volunteering at school -.

• My mother - who has many responsibilities - doesn't have enough time to volunteer at school.

• My mother - who doesn't volunteer at school - doesn't have enough time.

• My mother - who loves our school - doesn't have enough time to volunteer at school.

Circle the correct pronoun for the sentence. Identify if it is subjective, objective, or possessive. Even though (a)   loves school, he was just too sick to attend.

• he

• him

• his

• they

Circle the correct pronoun for the sentence. Identify if it is subjective, objective, or possessive. Even though loves school, he was just too sick to attend.

• he/subjective

• him/objective

• his/possessive

• he/possessive

Choose the antonym for: optimistic.

• bleak

• angry

• positive

• happy

Complete the sentence with an appropriate intensive pronoun. You don’t need to help her because she can do it _______________.

• herself

• myself

• yourself

• itself

Which of the following could be interpreted?

• time

• money

• food

• thoughts

List five words that contain the Greek or Latin root/affix. Example: circum - around.

Circle the vague pronoun and choose the option that correctly rewrites the sentence so that its meaning is clear: Nigel and Mario took the twins to the park, and they didn’t want to go home.

• they; Nigel and Mario took the twins to the park, but the twins didn’t want to go home.

• twins; Nigel and Mario took the twins to the park, but they didn’t want to go home.

• they; Nigel and Mario took the twins to the park, and the twins didn’t want to go home.

• twins; Nigel and Mario took the twins to the park, and they didn’t want to go home.