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WorksheetsWriting SOL 8 - 07
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 50mins
Which of these would best help Sarah write her description of her older brother?
Calling his friends and telling them about him
Thinking about all the things she likes about him
Making a list of things she wants him to do for her
Asking him to take her to the library
How can sentences 1 and 2 best be combined?
A special person in my life is Ben, my big brother.
A special person in my life is my big brother and Ben is who he is.
In my life a special person is my big brother and he is Ben.
My big brother Ben is a special person, he is in my life.
In sentence 4, He helps should be written —
He were helping
He have helped
He help
As it is
Casey decides to use a hospital as the setting for her story. Which of the following would be most helpful for her to use in describing the setting?
A magazine article about health
A list of the hospitals in her city
A book giving the history of a particular hospital
A visit to a hospital
This story map will help Casey to —
draw on past experiences for her story
think of an original idea for her story
keep the events she wants to use in her story in order
use good grammar in her story
How can Casey best combine sentences 2 and 3 into one sentence without changing their meaning?
She did not like hospitals, hospitals were always so cold, and everything in them was so white.
She did not like hospitals because they were always so cold, and everything in them was so white.
She did not like hospitals, and they were always so cold, and everything in them was so white.
She did not like hospitals hospitals were always so cold, everything in them was so white.
How can Casey best rewrite sentence 6?
The hospital bed, up to her chin in blankets, held her grandmother, looking small and frail.
Up to her chin in blankets and looking small and frail, her grandmother lay in the hospital bed.
Looking small and frail up to her chin, her grandmother in the hospital bed in blankets.
Up to her chin in blankets, the hospital bed, looking small and frail, lay her grandmother.
How can Casey best rewrite sentence 10 to make a complete sentence?
Jennifer fearful that she might hurt her grandmother or pull out a tube that she wasn’t supposed to touch.
Fearful that she might hurt her grandmother or pull out a tube that she wasn’t supposed to touch, she felt.
Fearing that she might hurt her grandmother or pull out a tube that she wasn’t supposed to touch.
She feared that she might hurt her grandmother or pull out a tube that she wasn’t supposed to touch.
In sentence 21, how is they correctly written?
them
it
those
As it is
In sentence 23, how is real correctly written?
really
more real
most real
As it is
In sentence 24, how is makes correctly written?
made
make
making
As it is
In sentence 27, how is nurse? correctly written?
nurse?”
nurse.
nurse,
As it is
In sentence 31, how is Nursing School correctly written?
Nursing school
nursing School
nursing school
As it is
In sentence 33, how is was as a matter of fact correctly written?
was, as a matter of fact,
was as a matter of fact,
was as a matter, of fact,
As it is
How can Ellie best rewrite sentence 5 so that it no longer needlessly repeats information?
He went back to Maine with his mother when he was eleven, but before he returned to Maine he lived in Indiana and Connecticut.
He returned to Maine when he was eleven; however, he lived in Indiana and Connecticut before he went back to Maine with his mother.
When he was eleven, he went back to Maine with his mother, but before he returned to Maine, he lived in Indiana and Connecticut.
He lived in Indiana and Connecticut before returning to Maine with his mother when he was eleven.
Ellie wants to replace Consequently in sentence 7 with a word that better fits the meaning of the sentence. Which of the following could she best use?
Therefore
In addition
However
Because of this
How can Ellie best combine sentences 13 and 14 without changing their meaning?
King got trained as a high school English teacher while he still could not find a job.
Even though he was a trained high school English teacher, he was unable to find a job.
Though he was not able to find a trained job, King was a high school English teacher.
King was not able to find a job because he was a trained high school English teacher.
In sentence 32, how is work has been correctly written?
work are
work have been
work is
As it is
In sentence 34, how is copys of correctly written?
copys’ of
copy’s of
copies of
As it is
In sentence 36, how is In addition he has directed and written correctly written?
In addition he has directed, and written
In addition, he has directed and written
In addition he has directed and written,
As it is
In sentence 38, how is very bad correctly written?
worse
very badly
the worst
As it is
In sentence 41, how is Each episodes plot correctly written?
Each episode’s plot
Each episodes’ plot
Each episodes’s plot
As it is
In sentence 42, how is ghostly figure correctly written?
ghosty figure
ghostlier figure
more ghosty figure
As it is
In sentence 44, how is continue correctly written?
continues
continued
has continued
As it is
In sentence 45, how is games trades, and players correctly written?
games trades, and, players
games, trades, and players
games, trades, and, players
As it is
