Part 6
LANGUAGE
6.1 Conventions of Standard English
Name __________________________________
Pronouns, Contractions, and Homophones 1
Practice
Write your answers on the lines and then print this page.
Read each sentence. The underlined pronouns and contractions are used incorrectly. Write the correct pronoun or contraction on the line.
1. Do you think your ready for the story? __________
2. Clap you’re hands twice. __________
3. Its a story about a fisher who plays a trick on some people. __________
4. At first their fooled, but then they trick the fisher. __________
5. Its a bad day for the fisher because he has not caught any fish to sell. __________
6. He tricks people into leaving they’re wares on the other side of the river. __________
7. Their afraid of falling into the river because the log bridge is shaky. __________
8. They’re swimming skills are not very good. __________
9. “Leave some baskets before you cross; its the only way to do it,” the fisher tells the basket-
10. The fisher promises to hold the unsteady log in it’s place. __________
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maker. __________
Part 6
LANGUAGE
6.1 Conventions of Standard English
Name __________________________________
Pronouns, Contractions, and Homophones 2
Practice
Write your answers on the lines and then print this page.
Rewrite each sentence. Use possessive pronouns, homophones, and contractions
correctly.
1. The fisher tricks some people on there way to the market.
2. He stands their next to the log bridge and shakes it.
3. There likely to be frightened by the shaky log.
4. They will think that their going to fall into the river.
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5. They could lose there merchandise or even drown.
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Part 6
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6.1 Conventions of Standard English
Name __________________________________
6. “Put some of you’re baskets down before you cross,” the fisher says.
7. He tells the others to leave some of there food before crossing the log.
8. As they go to the market, there easily tricked.
9. However, on they’re way home, they see nothing wrong with the bridge.
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10. They decide that there going to trick the fisher.
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