Name: ______

Grammar Review

I. Fix the following sentence fragments by making complete sentences.

a. Serves more than 15,000 lunches a day.

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b. A waffle topped with ice cream is my favorite breakfast meal.

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c. For lunch, I can eat two slices of pizza, fries, a hamburger. And a diet soda.

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d. It is not healthy to eat. In the middle of the night.

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II. Fix the following run-on sentences by breaking them up into multiple complete sentences.

a. Thanksgiving Day meals can include turkey, dressing, potatoes, yams, and pumpkin pie, I usually ask for more.

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b. I dislike most leafy, green vegetables I will eat lettuce.

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III. Verb Tenses: Fix the verb tense of the underlined portion of each sentence or label CORRECT in the parenthesis.

Courage and determination have took ( ) Bill Pinkney to places he had only read about in his youth. In 1992, Pinkney made his dream come true by sailing around the world alone. He had become ( )the first African American to accomplish that feat. For a man who claims to be a terrible swimmer, the trip must have been especially challenging. Pinkney will have said ( ), however, that when a person is 5,000 miles from shore, a safety harness was far more important than knowing the backstroke.

Pinkney gone ( )on another adventure in 1999. That voyage retraced the Middle Passage, a route across the Atlantic Ocean that slave ships have used ( )for hundreds of years. He had saw ( )this voyage as an opportunity to draw attention to a period of history that is too often ignored. If Pinkney had been ( )self-centered, he would have traveled alone, but he invited 16 educators to join him. He wanted to learn ( )people about the slave route from Africa to the Americas. Who knows what other goals Pinkney sets ( )for himself in the future.

IV: Subject Verb Agreement: Label whether each sentence is correct or incorrect.

1. ______They has been judging this case.

2. ______The facts in this case is clear.

3. ______Everyone wants to attend the trial.

4. ______Many expect a guilty verdict.

5. ______None of the pie were stolen.

6. ______The lawyer and the judge argues about a point of law.

7. ______Neither the judge nor the lawyers agree.

8. ______The staff is meeting.

9. ______The news are not good.

10. ______Three days is a long time to deliberate.

V. Pronoun Practice: Write sentences for each of the following words, some of which are pronouns

Their

There

You’re (Contraction for “you are”)

Your

its

VI. Appositive Practice: Underline the appositive

1. My father, a truly exceptional man, worked at an ordinary job and was unknown outside the small town where he lived.

VII. Clauses

What is the difference between a dependent and independent clause?

VII. Parallel Structure: Underline the parts of the sentence that are parallel in structure.

1. “A penny saved is a penny earned.” Ben Franklin