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WorksheetsUnit 7: Language Focus
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 44mins
Identify the connectives in these compound sentences:
Flora knew she should be studying but she continued playing games.
(a)
Identify the connectives in these compound sentences:
Stop skipping classes or you will fail your exams!
(a)
Identify the connectives in these compound sentences:
Flora wanted to try out her phone so she turned it on.
(a)
Identify the connectives in these compound sentences:
The squirrel was gobbled up by the vacuum cleaner yet it remained unharmed.
(a)
Identify the connectives in these compound sentences:
Flora was pleased that she passed her exam for she thought that the might have failed it.
(a)
Identify if the following sentences are compound or complex sentences:
The floor will stay clean unless you forgot to wash your shoes.
Complex Sentence
Compound Sentence
Identify if the following sentences are compound or complex sentences:
I want to score well in my exams so I will have to study more.
Complex Sentence
Compound Sentence
Identify if the following sentences are compound or complex sentences:
Flora admitted she had been reading her comic because she knew that she was wrong.
Complex Sentence
Compound Sentence
Identify if the following sentences are compound or complex sentences:
I want to do well in my exams but I don't know how to do it.
Complex Sentence
Compound Sentence
Identify if the following sentences are compound or complex sentences:
When you turn on the vacuum cleaner, hold on to it tightly.
Complex Sentence
Compound Sentence
Which of these are reasons to start a new paragraph?
Indicate a change in time
Indicate in change in speaker
Indicate in change in action
Indicate a change in place
Choose the correct verb to match the collective nouns:
A flock of birds (have/has) left the building.
(a)
Choose the correct verb to match the collective nouns:
I hope the audience (enjoys/enjoy) the show.
(a)
Choose the correct verb to match the collective nouns:
A shoal of fish (were/was) darting through the river, heading to the ocean.
(a)
Choose the correct verb to match the collective nouns:
A group of islands (are/is) called an archipelago
(a)
Choose the correct verb to match the collective nouns:
The same pride of lions always (appear/appears) at the edge of the jungle.
(a)
Identify the full words or words:
'tisn't
(a)
Identify the full words or words:
shan't
(a)
Identify the full words or words:
'twas
(a)
Identify the full words or words:
ne'er
(a)
Identify the full words or words:
'twasn't
(a)
Identify the correct way to add a semicolon:
James like to play chess Klaus prefers to read.
James; like to play chess Klaus prefers to read.
James like to play chess Klaus; prefers to read.
James likes to play; chess Klaus prefers to read
Identify the correct way to add a semicolon:
The hall was silent only the distant whispering behind the scenes could be heard.
The hall was silent; only the distant whispering behind the scenes could be heard.
The hall was silent only the distant whispering; behind the scenes could be heard.
The hall was silent only the distant whispering behind the scenes; could be heard.
The hall was silent only; the distant whispering behind the scenes could be heard.
Identify the correct way to add a semicolon:
The play was a great success all the actors remembered their lines perfectly.
The play was a great success; all the actors remembered their lines perfectly.
The play was a great; success all the actors remembered their lines perfectly.
The play was a great success all the actors; remembered their lines perfectly.
The play was a great success all the actors remembered their lines; perfectly.
Identify the correct way to add a semicolon:
In summer it is warm and dry in winter it is cold and wet.
In summer it is warm and dry; in winter it is cold and wet.
In summer it is warm; and dry in winter it is cold and wet.
In summer it is warm; and dry in winter; it is cold and wet.
In summer; it is warm and dry in winter; it is cold and wet.
Identify the correct way to add a semicolon:
The athletes were exhausted it was a long, gruelling race.
The athletes were exhausted; it was a long, gruelling race.
The athletes were exhausted it was a long, gruelling; race.
The athletes; were exhausted it was a long, gruelling race.
The athletes were exhausted it; was a long, gruelling race.
Identify the correct way to add colons:
This is what will be in your geography test continents, oceans, seas, the equator, the tropics of Capricorn and Cancer, and capital cities.
This is what will be in your geography test: continents, oceans, seas, the equator, the tropics of Capricorn and Cancer, and capital cities.
This is what will be in your geography: test continents, oceans, seas, the equator, the tropics of Capricorn and Cancer, and capital cities.
This is what will be in your: geography test continents, oceans, seas, the equator, the tropics of Capricorn and Cancer, and capital cities.
This is what will be in your geography test continents, oceans, seas, the equator, the tropics of Capricorn and Cancer, and: capital cities.
Identify the correct way to add colons:
I can't believe where we are going on holiday Hawaii!
I can't believe where we are going on holiday: Hawaii!
I can't believe: where we are going on holiday Hawaii!
I can't believe where we are going: on holiday Hawaii!
I: can't believe where we are going on holiday Hawaii!
Identify the correct way to add colons:
The principal said 'Please sit down.'
The principal said: 'Please sit down.'
The principal said 'Please: sit down.'
The principal: said 'Please sit down.'
The principal said 'Please sit: down.'
Identify the correct way to add colons:
Ingredients tomatoes, lettuce leaves, cucumber, radishes and spring onions.
Ingredients: tomatoes, lettuce leaves, cucumber, radishes and spring onions.
Ingredients; tomatoes, lettuce leaves, cucumber, radishes and spring onions.
Ingredients? tomatoes, lettuce leaves, cucumber, radishes and spring onions.
Ingredients! tomatoes, lettuce leaves, cucumber, radishes and spring onions.
Identify the correct way to add colons:
Mother Remember not to open the window in this storm.
Mother: Remember not to open the window in this storm.
Mother: Remember not to open the window: in this storm.
Mother Remember: not to open the window in this storm.
Mother: Remember not to open: the window in this storm.
What is the meaning of the following homophone?
The duck quacked at the dog.
What is the meaning of the following homophone?
The princess danced at the ball.
What is the meaning of the following homophone?
I saw a wave of ducks flying south.
What is the meaning of the following homophone?
A thief tried to pick Shawn's pocket, but Shawn suddenly moved away.
What is the meaning of the following homophone?
March 19 will be the first day of spring this year.
What is the meaning of the following homophone?
Amy used a pencil to write in her log.
What is the meaning of the following homophone?
We turned left when we reached the fork in the road.
What is the meaning of the following homophone?
The driver is so far ahead of the other racers, that he can coast to the finish line.
What is the meaning of the following homophone?
Why would anyone stoop to lying or cheating?
Choose a powerful verb to replace the following verbs:
Kate walked peacefully towards the meadow.
crawled
gobbled
strolled
sprinted
Choose a powerful verb to replace the following verbs:
My cat quickly ate the fish in the bowl.
devoured
scribed
munched
nibbled
Choose a powerful verb to replace the following verbs:
I looked intensely at the photos on the wall.
stared
pinned
gobbled
spied
Choose a powerful verb to replace the following verbs:
Jim broke completely my favourite vase.
snatched
fractured
damaged
shattered
Choose a powerful verb to replace the following verbs:
I untidily wrote my name on the test paper.
scribbled
drew
gathered
astounded
