Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Writing
Components
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a. | go,
goed | c. | see,
seed | b. | take, took | d. | saw, sawed |
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Walking through the dark forest, Sandra
feared that she had left her flashlight at camp.
Which underlined word is a verb?
a. | through | c. | feared | b. | forest | d. | flashlight |
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We will have been here for
three hours at ten o’clock.
Identify the verb tense used in the
sentence.
a. | past
tense | c. | future perfect
tense | b. | future tense | d. | past perfect tense |
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I love playing
upstairs.
Which word in the sentence is a compound word?
a. | I | c. | playing | b. | love | d. | upstairs |
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When the teacher left the room
Terry put a thumbtack on his friend’s poster.
Which word in the sentence is a compound
word?
a. | teacher | c. | thumbtack | b. | room | d. | friend’s |
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The man’s antisocial
behavior was reported in the newspaper.
Which word in the sentence has a
prefix?
a. | man’s | c. | reported | b. | antisocial | d. | newspaper |
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Her eyelid became infected as
it rejected her new makeup.
Which word in the sentence has a prefix?
a. | eyelid | c. | rejected | b. | became | d. | makeup |
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The asteroid hit the
earth’s surface with tremendous force.
Which word in the sentence has a
suffix?
a. | asteroid | c. | hit | b. | earth’s | d. | force |
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Write the correct
contraction for “will not”
a. | will’nt | c. | won’t | b. | will’t | d. | weren’t |
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Write the correct
contraction for “she will”
a. | shewill | c. | shel’l | b. | she’ll | d. | sheel |
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Which usage of the colon in the following sentences is correct?
a. | Dear: Sir | c. | Dear Sir: | b. | :Dear Sir | d. | Dear: Sir: |
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Which usage of the colon in the following sentences is correct?
a. | Grocery list: peas, corn, green beans, and sugar. | c. | Grocery list peas, corn, green
beans: and sugar. | b. | Grocery list; peas: corn: green beans: and
sugar: | d. | Grocery: list; peas,
corn, green beans, and sugar |
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Go and get the nurse!
What is the subject of the sentence?
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Please, pass the salt.
What is the subject of the sentence?
a. | Please | c. | pass | b. | salt | d. | You |
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Which sentence contains a compound subject?
a. | Ben and Jerry make a mean ice cream. | c. | ice cream is good to eat and to
make shakes with. | b. | The Blue Bell company makes many different
types of ice cream that I like very much. | d. | Ben made ice cream in his garage. |
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Identify the run on sentence.
a. | Ben and Jerry make a mean ice cream and I know how they do it. | c. | Ice cream is good
to eat and to make shakes with. | b. | The Blue Bell company makes many different
types of ice cream that I like very much. | d. | Ben made ice cream in his garage; Jerry made it there
too. |
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Which sentences use the correct subject and verb agreement:
1) Spencer
is a clown.
2) Spencer are a clown.
3) His cousins is jugglers.
4) His
cousisns are jugglers.
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Which sentences use the correct subject and verb agreement:
1) Spencer
and his cousins were in a show.
2) Spencer and his cousins was in a show
3) Spencer
was funny.
4) Spencer were funny.
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Which sentences use the correct subject and verb agreement:
1) His
cousins were daring.
2) His cousins was daring.
3) The crowd was
excited.
4) The crowd were excited.
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Identify the complex sentence that has the simple subject underlined.
What is
the complete subject of the sentence?
a. | After I finish my homework, I will get to play video games. | c. | The video
game with the flying dragon set in middle earth is my favorite. | b. | After I finish my
homework, I will get to play video games. | d. | The video game with the flying dragon
set in middle earth is my favorite. |
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The woman in purple went completely insane after she lost the game.
What
is the complete predicate of the sentence?
a. | went | c. | went completely insane after she lost the game. | b. | woman
insane | d. | went
insane. |
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Writing
Process
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_____ the earthquake struck,
and the room ________ shook.
Choose the best missing word.
a. | Slowly,
sadly | c. | Cautiously,
tearfully | b. | Anxiously, happily | d. | Suddenly, violently |
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The mountains turn _______ at
night in the Fall.
Choose the best missing word.
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Which one of the sentences is
written in past tense?
a. | The butcher will be in at
noon. | c. | I have been meaning to talk to
you. | b. | I lost watch last night at the carnival. | d. | You seem to be happy. |
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