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WorksheetsPractice Test 2
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 1hrs 6mins
What change, if any, should be made to sentence 1?
(1)The story begins with the unnamed narrater visiting an observatory.
Place a comma after “visiting.”
Delete the word “begin.”
Change “narrater” to “narrator.”
Capitalize “observatory”
What change should be made to sentences (1) & (2)?
(1)The story begins with the unnamed narrater visiting an observatory. (2) There he is shown explosions of the surface of Mars.
Remove the period and put in a comma.
Change “explosions” to “explosive”
Change “Mars” to “mars.”
Join the two sentences using a semicolon “;”.
What change should be made to sentence (3)?
(3) Shortly afterwards an apparent meteor lands close to the narrator's house in Surrey.
Insert a comma after “afterwards.”
Change “meteor” to “Meteor.”
Change “narrator’s” to “narrators.”
Change “close to” to “closely.”
What change should be made to sentence (4)?
(4) When he goes to look, he sees the first of the martians emerging from its spacecraft.
Change “martians” to “Martians.”
Change “goes” to “had gone.”
Change “Surrey” to “surrey.”
Change the “,” after look to a “:”.
What change should be made to sentence (5)?
(5) The invaiders went to work setting up strange machinery, building powerful heat rays, and incinerating any who approached.
Change “invaiders” to “invaders.”
You capitalize “Heat Ray.”
Place a semicolon after work. ( ; )
Make no changes.
What change should be made to sentence (6)?
(6) The narrator takes his wife to presumed safety then returns just in time to witness gigantic tripods Martian war machines armed with heat rays and poisonous black smoke smashing their way through the massed ranks of the British Army.
Change “takes” to “takes’.”
Insert a comma after “tripods” and “smoke.”
Change “British Army” to “British army.”
Make no changes.
What change should be made to sentence (7)?
(7) Three tripods are brought down in a succession of battles before the army and navy are routed the Martians are reinforcing their invasion.
Place a semicolon after “routed.”
Insert a comma after “tripods.”
Change “brought” to “bring”
Capitalize “army and navy”
How should you rewrite sentence (10)?
(10) It seems they intend to treat humanity as something bad.
Treat humanity badly- they do- YES!
It seems the Martians intend to treat humanity as nothing more than a food source!
They intend to treat humanity as humanity needs to be treated!
It seems that the martians intend to use humanity as food!
What change, if any, should be made to this sentence?
Mary Shelley wrote one of the scary book of all time.
Change "wrote" to "write"
Change "scary" to "scariest"
Change "time" to "times"
Make no change
What change, if any, should be made to this sentence?
The belief that ghosts are real could led to the exploration of potentially haunted areas.
Change "belief" to "beliefs"
Change "could" to "could" to "might"
Change "led" to "lead"
Make no change
(27) “It sure does,” Barbara agreed because a smile moved across her lips.
The word because does not appropriately connect the two clauses in sentence 27. Which word should replace the word because?
if
while
although
where
What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 11?
(11) The ones available from the grosery store are not fresh.
Change ones to wons
Change available to availible
Change grosery to grocery
Sentence 11 does not need to be changed.
What change, if any, should be made in sentence 10?
(10) “I are tired of the taste of the vegetables that we have been getting.
Change "I" to "me"
Change "are tired" to "am tired"
Change "from" to "for"
No change should be made in this sentence.
How should sentence 5 be changed?
(5) I weren’t finished with my homework.
Change "I" to "you"
Change "weren’t finished" to "wasn’t finished"
Change "my" to "you"
Sentence 5 should not be changed.
What is the correct way to write sentence 3?
(3) “I’m sorry, Mom,” Barbara replied, she walked slowly into the kitchen.
“I’m sorry, Mom,” Barbara replied as she walked slowly into the kitchen.
“I’m sorry, Mom,” Barbara replied, walked slowly into the kitchen.
“I’m sorry, Mom,” Barbara replied; walked slowly into the kitchen.
“I’m sorry, Mom,” Barbara replied as she walked, slowly into the kitchen.
What change needs to be made in sentence 22?
(22) Barbara followed her mothers directions and slowly they put soil, plant food, and organic nutrients in a bucket as they mixed them all together.
Change followed to follows
Change mothers to mother’s
Change slowly to slow
Change mixed to mixt
How should sentence 4 be changed?
(4) From the south end of Texas, threw the middle of parts of the United States, and on up into southern Canada, these prairie lands spread far and wide.
Change south to South
Change threw to through
Change middle to middel
Sentence 4 should not be changed.
What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 6?
(6) The rocky mountains a major mountain range in North America border the prairie on the west.
Change rocky mountains to Rocky Mountains
Change "prairie" to "Prairie"
Change "west" to "West"
Change the period after west to a question mark
What change, if any, should be made in sentence 13?
(13) Adequate warm-up and cooling off after exercising also increases the possibility of less ingury during exercising.
Change Adequate to Adiquate
Change increases to increeses
Change ingury to injury
Sentence 13 does not need to be changed.
How should sentence 8 be changed?
(8) Raw servings are usually more nutritous than cooked servings.
Change Raw to Rau
Change usually to usual
Change nutritous to nutritious
Sentence 8 should not be changed.
What change needs to be made to sentence 5?
(5) The mind will be sharper, clearer, and better able to survive life’s ups and downs, and like a well-trimmed ship on a stormie sea.
Change "sharper" to "sharpper"
Change "survive" to "sorvive"
Change "trimmed" to "trimed"
Change "stormie" to "stormy"
What change needs to be made to sentence 12?
(12) Starting off slowly and building up to this duration helps make sure injury to any body parts are less likely to ocur.
Change "duration" to "duraton"
Change "Slowly" to "slow"
Change "ocur" to "occur"
No change needs to be made
