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STAAR Practice 3/20-3/21

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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.

a)

Change are to were

b)

Delete the comma

c)

Insert a comma after Football

d)

Change Fall to fall

2.

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.

a)

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

b)

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

c)

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

d)

Sentence 13 is written correctly in the paper.

3.

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.

a)

Change consumer to consummer

b)

Insert a comma after websites

c)

Change as many to hardly as many

d)

Change shopping to shoping

4.

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.

a)

Change example to exampel

b)

Change got to gotten

c)

Delete the comma after homework

d)

Change had to have

5.

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.

a)

Change weeks to week’s

b)

Change boring to borring

c)

Change the first comma to a period

d)

Change experiment to experament

6.

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.

a)

Change was to am

b)

Delete the comma after week

c)

Change their to there

d)

Change attitude to atitude

7.

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

a)

Change There’s to There isn’t

b)

Change me to myself

c)

Insert a comma after me

d)

Change it to them

8.

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.

a)

Change They to You

b)

Change pictures to picture’s

c)

Change elaberate to elaborate

d)

This sentence should not be changed.

9.

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.

a)

Change variety to vareity

b)

Change that to they

c)

Change involved to involve

d)

No change needs to be made.

10.

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.

a)

Delete the comma

b)

Change there to their

c)

Change busyly to busily

d)

No change should be made.

11.

What is the correct way to write the following sentences? When he surfaces, he usually has a heavy bag. Filled with hundreds of golf balls that have mistakenly landed in the pond.

a)

When he surfaces, he usually has a heavy bag, it is filled with hundreds of golf balls that have mistakenly landed in the pond.

b)

When he surfaces, he usually has a heavy bag filled with hundreds of golf balls. That have mistakenly landed in the pond.

c)

When he surfaces, he usually has a heavy bag filled with hundreds of golf balls they have mistakenly landed in the pond.

d)

When he surfaces, he usually has a heavy bag filled with hundreds of golf balls that have mistakenly landed in the pond.

12.

What change should be made in this sentence? On a average day Parker can collect as many as 3,000 golf balls.

a)

Change a to an

b)

Change average to averege

c)

Change can collect to collecting

d)

No change should be made

13.

What change, if any, should be made in this sentence? The water towers that supply our communities with drinking water requires regular maintenance.

a)

Change communities to community’s

b)

Change requires to require

c)

Change maintenance to maintanence

d)

Make no change

14.

How should this sentence be changed? And because the tanks are usually operating at the same time, the divers must be very careful when they are inside.

a)

Change are usually operating to is usually operating

b)

Delete the comma

c)

Change they to you

d)

This sentence should not be changed.

15.

What change needs to be made in this sentence? If you’re planning to pursue a career in diving someday you may want to stick to the more glamorous diving jobs.

a)

Change you’re to your

b)

Insert a comma after diving

c)

Insert a comma after someday

d)

Change you may want to to and may want to