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1.
Which choice uses quotation marks correctly?
A. "We are leaving, my" Dad said.
B. "She said, Did you see my pencil?"
C. "Tell me your name," the detective said.
D. "You", come here, the teacher commanded.
2.
Which is an example of a complex sentence?
A. My paper filled up the notebook.
B. Pencil boxes keep my supplies neat.
C. The box of pens was full when I bought it.
D. My book bag was full of paper, pencils, and books.
3. What is the BEST way to combine the two sentences?
We went to the fair. We ate a lot of food and rode many rides.
A. We went to the fair and ate a lot of food.
B. We ate a lot of food and rode many rides.
C. We rode many rides and we ate.
D. We ate a lot of food and rode many rides at the fair.
4. Which sentence uses quotation marks correctly?
A. Dad "said get the keys to the car."
B. "Dad said, Get the keys to the car."
C. Dad said, "Get the keys to the car."
D. Dad said, "Get" the keys to the car.
5. Which sentence uses a pronoun correctly?
A. Tom saw they at the bookstore.
B. Orange is the color her likes best.
C. Sarah and me were in line first!
D. The spider is crawling up his leg!
6. Which word in the sentence needs an apostrophe?
Sharons office is on the sixth floor of the building.
A. Sharons
B. office
C. sixth
D. building
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7. Which is a noun in the sentence?
I bought a large black piano.
A. bought
B. large
C. black
D. piano
8. Which word BEST completes the sentence?
_______ shoes could not be found.
A. Julie
B. Julies
C. Julie's
D. Julies'
9. Where is the BEST place to find the meaning of the word fortune?
A. an atlas
B. a dictionary
C. a thesaurus
D. an encyclopedia
10. Which sentence uses periods correctly?
A. We are meeting Dr. Gold
B. Mark M Baker is an author.
C. My bus driver is Ms. Jenkins.
D. The car is owned by Mr. G. Brown
11. Which word is the predicate adjective in the sentence below?
The view from Stone Mountain was breathtaking.
A. view
B. from
C. mountain
D. breathtaking
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Read this next section of Natalie's rough draft and answer these questions. This section has groups of
underlined words. The questions ask about these groups of underlined words.
(13)Then, when you said that we was going to jump off the diving board, I was scared again. (14)After you talked to
us about it, I felt better. (15)When it was my turn to jump off the board for the first time, I remembered how I had felt
at the beginning of the lessons. (16)"You can do it," you told me. (17)I knew that I could swim well by that point, so I
thought that I would be okay. (18)I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, leaped from the diving board, and swam to
the side of the pool. (19)It felt great!
(20)My friends and I learned so much from those swimming lessons this summer. (21)Mrs. Franklin, thank you for all
that you learned us.
(22)Now I go swimming all the time at my friend Betsys' house. (23)I have even shown her a few new things about
swimming! (24)I can hardly wait to take your swimming class again next year!
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12. In sentence 13, we was should be written —
A. we is.
B. we had been.
C. we were.
D. as it is.
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Answer Key
1. C) "Tell me your name," the detective said.
2. C) The box of pens was full when I bought it.
3. D) We ate a lot of food and rode many rides at the fair.
4. C) Dad said, "Get the keys to the car."
5. D) The spider is crawling up his leg!
6. A) Sharons
7. D) piano
8. C) Julie's
9. B) a dictionary
10. C) My bus driver is Ms. Jenkins.
11. D) breathtaking
12. C) we were.
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