Complete ALL of the following questions. You can answer on this page or on your own paper.

If you answer on your own paper, you must write the question and the answer.

  1. Write sentences using their, there, and they’re correctly.
  1. What is an interjection? Give an example of one.
  1. What is the purpose of a conjunction? What are the three kinds?
  1. What are the three forms of end punctuation? Give an example of each.
  1. What is the difference between whose and who’s?
  1. Give an example of a transitional word that would show contrast between paragraphs.
  1. Write a supporting sentence for the following topic sentence:

Georgia has many interesting places to visit.

  1. Capitalize and punctuate the following sentence:

you can wash and dry the dishes or you can finish your homework

  1. If you wanted to add the phrase on the shelf to describe the book, where would you place it in the sentence below?

Keesha handed the book to Larry.

10.Capitalize and punctuate the following sentence: igave the book to my sister who read it in a week

  1. What is the BEST way to combine the sentences below? Rewrite it correctly.

Robert Frost is an American poet.

Robert Frost is one of America’s best known poets.

Many of Robert Frost’s poems describe nature and are set in New England.

  1. What is the simple subject of the sentence below?

During the night the boys' blankets fell to the floor.

  1. Combine the sentences two different ways to make a compound sentence.

Andrew can skate very fast. Sylvia skates the fastest.

  1. Which words from the sentence below form the compound predicate?

The unique sea horse grasps underwater objects and fastens itself to vegetation easily with its curved tail.

  1. What part of the sentence is secretary? Tyrone is the secretary of the graduating class. Predicate noun
  1. In the sentence below, what word or words does the phrase down the street modify?

The bookstore down the street from the movie theater just put in a large collection of sheet music.

  1. Which idea is repeated in the paragraph below?

We watched in silence as the sun spread its multi-colored rays across the surface of the Pacific. No one made a sound. Then, suddenly, the sun dropped behind the horizon, leaving us in purple shades of twilight.No one made a sound.

  1. Which sentence does not belong in this paragraph?

Sarah and Dianne went to the movies. First, they bought tickets at the window. Then, they went inside and bought popcorn. They decided to buy the CD from the store. They bought soda to wash down the popcorn. They loved the movie and had a really good time.

  1. Which sentence is unrelated to the rest of the paragraph?

On our trip across country, we met a group of motorcyclists. The leader was a young man about twenty years old. Harley Davidson motorcycles have been around for almost a hundred years. He and his friends did not appear to be especially agreeable. On the other hand, they did not bother anyone else. My father thought that we were foolish to be uneasy about them.

  1. 1I bought a jar of peanut butter, some milk, and some saltine crackers. 2I was hungry after school. 3I watched television, ate my snack, and waited for my mom to get home. 4There was no good snack food in the cabinet at home, so I walked to the store on the corner.

In the paragraph above, how should the sentences be ordered?

  1. In the following paragraph, which sentence is out of sequence?

Charles couldn't stop thinking about yesterday. There were all sorts of relay races. The funniest race was moving water from one bucket to another using only a sponge. The most interesting contest was spitting watermelon seeds. The picnic will always be a special memory for him.

  1. Write a good supporting sentence for the following topic sentence:

Leonardo da Vinci was an artist of many talents who lived in Renaissance Italy.

Label each of the following as: simple, compound, complex, compound-complex, fragment, or run-on.

  1. Since it was raining we went inside, we sat and watched it rain.
  1. It didn’t stop raining, so we played card games.
  2. You are going to have a good time in eighth grade.
  3. We went to Shane’s for lunch because we were hungry.
  4. Happy days are here again!
  5. Start your homework when you get home, but do your chores first.
  6. An earthquake!
  7. We’ve always wanted to go skiing in the mountains we went last year.
  8. When I woke up on Monday morning.
  9. My mother made a birthday cake for Dad, and I made him a card.
  10. When I looked outside, it was raining, so I brought my umbrella.

DGP- Do Monday’s DGP to each of the following sentences.

  1. Brad gave Sheena his phone number but she did not call him.

35. The new shiny, red car is ours because my father won it in a contest.

36.Wow, that is the best children’s book that I have ever read!

37-39 Label all of the verbs and direct objects in the sentence below. Be sure to tell the tense of the verb(s) and whether or not they are transitive or intransitive. Then capitalize and punctuate it.

after we do homework we can sit around and watch television

40. Label all clauses and capitalize and punctuate the following sentence:

although anika hasnt ever been to lake tahoe the smiths like to go there often

41. Capitalize and punctuate the following sentence:

who has read the poem the road not taken by robert frost

42. What is the difference betweenit’s and its?

Use the following words to complete each sentence. Some words might not be used; others might be used more than once

Adjective(s) Nominative Articles Clause Describe
Adverb Phrase Preposition Pronoun Subject
Verb/predicate Transitive Intransitive Reflexive pronoun

43. Every sentence must have a subject and a ______.

44. The ______is the word that does the verb.

45. ______tellwhich one, what kind, or how many about the word(s) it modifies.

46. ______means subjective.

47. The adjectives a, an and the are also called ______

48. Another word for modify is ______

49. ______tells how, when, where, or to what extent about the word(s) it modifies.

50. ______modify nouns and pronouns.

51. Myself, yourself, and ourselves are examples of ______

52. A ______is a group of words that does have a subject and a verb.

53. A ______is a group of words that does not have a subject and a verb.

54. Every prepositional phrase begins with a ______and ends with an object of the preposition.

55. Every object of the preposition is either a noun or a ______.

56. ______means that the verb takes a direct object.

57. ______means that the verb does not take a direct object.

58.What types of note cards are there? What information goes on each type of source/note card?

59. What is the correct format for an outline?

60. How are bibliography pages written?

61. Use the outline below to answer this question.

The Great Wall of China
I. How the Wall Began
  1. About 3,000 years ago as defense warring states
  2. 221 B.C. walls were linked as protection from Hums
  3. Other rulers rebuilt and extended walls over the centuries
II. Hard Labor
  1. It took 300,000 troops at first
  2. Built with local materials over nine years
C. Laborers often had little to eat

Which outline point could be listed as point D in section II above?

  1. Some of the wall was built in the Ming era.
  2. Some of the wall is made of sand.
  3. Workers had difficult temperatures, 95 degrees F to –5 degree F, to work in.
  4. The wall’s height varies.

62. Which fact does not belong in a research paper about voting in America?

a. In several countries, election day is treated like a national holiday.

b. Voting rights were not always granted to women and African Americans.

c. The method by which you cast your ballot is decided by each individual state.

d. The electoral college is a select body of people who elect somebody to an office.

63. What is it called you use information directly without giving credit to the source?

64. What type of word is underlined in the following sentence?

The legs and tail of a cheetah are much longer than a leopard’s.

65. Which word or words BEST fills in the blank in the sentence below?

The old horse went ______up the hill than anyone had thought possible

66. Where does a semi-colon belong in the sentence below?

Alonzo has collected stamps for years he should be president of the Stamp Club.

67. Which word would BEST complete the sentence below?

Jess and Joe both played well at the recital, but Joe’s performance was ______.

68. What word wouldBEST complete the sentence below?

Of all the players on the soccer team, Caleb is the ______runner.