Week 10

Skill: Editing, Sentence Structure

SubjectLanguage Grammar Grade 4

This test section contains TWELVE multiple-choice and ONE open-response (short-answer) questions. Please mark your answers for the multiple-choice questions in the spaces provided on your Student Response Booklet. Mark only one answer for each question. If you do not know the answer, make your best guess. DO NOT WRITE ANY ANSWERS IN THIS TEST BOOKLET. WHEN YOU FINISH, DO NOT WORK ON ANY OTHER TEST SECTION.
1. / Which of the following is a fragment?
O / A. / My mom is a pilot.
O / B. / That would be a wonderful project!
O / C. / What is for lunch today?
O / D. / Running up the tree.
2. / Which of the following is a run-on?
O / A. / Where can I find the most leaves for my project?
O / B. / As soon as I got to the library, I began to look for my favorite book.
O / C. / I found my book it is called Johnny Tremain.
O / D. / Did Suzan sing at the concert?
3. / Which of the following is a complete sentence and punctuated correctly?
O / A. / Donna got a new pet guinea pig named fred.
O / B. / The guinea pig was from Australia, but he had never lived in the wild.
O / C. / The class wanted to feed him lettuce but he didn’t like it.
O / D. / He loved carrots apples and oranges instead.
4. / Which of the following is the best way to combine the two sentences:
Brad’s favorite lunch is pizza. John likes chicken tenders for lunch.
O / A. / Brad’s favorite lunch is pizza, but John’s favorite lunch is chicken tenders for lunch.
O / B. / Brad’s favorite lunch is pizza, and John likes chicken tenders for lunch.
O / C. / Brad’s favorite lunch is pizza, but John likes chicken tenders.
O / D. / Brad and John both eat lunch, but Brad likes pizza better than John who likes chicken tenders best.
5. / Which of the following is the correct way to write a compound sentence?
O / A. / John wanted to play video games, but Sue preferred to play basketball.
O / B. / Jessica ran for class president, and got fourteen votes.
O / C. / Mr. Jackson wanted to go to the aquarium, with his first period class.
O / D. / Mrs. Jones brought rocks, minerals, and fossils to show her science group.
6. / Which of the following is grammatically correct?
O / A. / After the bear eating greedily, he lumbered off to take a quick nap.
O / B. / We raced rapidly through the forest.
O / C. / John said she should not never feed the bear.
O / D. / Bears can survived independently in their habitat.
7. / Which sentence uses pronouns correctly?
O / A. / There are fourteen puppies at the pet store, and its all hungry.
O / B. / We had to feed all the puppies because he was hungry.
O / C. / Are you sure your not going to get in trouble for your behavior?
O / D. / Because Bob bought a puppy, he had to buy it a bed.
8. / Which sentence uses verb tense correctly?
O / A. / The students are late for the library, so they didn’t have time to check out books.
O / B. / Mr. Kinson collected our money for the field trip early so he could fill out the expense report.
O / C. / Since John didn’t want to go, we tried to persuaded them to go with us.
O / D. / My mother give me extra money because she wanted me to buy a souvenir.

STOP!

Multiple Choice Item Information:

Question / First
A.E. / First CC / DOK
Level of MC Question / Answer
Key / Rational/Annotation for MC Questions
1 / WR-E-3.5.0 / Language: Students will exemplify effective language choices by
  • Applying correct grammar and usage
  • Applying concise use of language
Incorporating strong verbs, precise nouns, / D / Incomplete thought
2 / WR-E-3.5.0 / Language: Students will exemplify effective language choices by
  • Applying correct grammar and usage
  • Applying concise use of language
Incorporating strong verbs, precise nouns, / C / All other choices are correct sentences.
3 / WR-E-3.5.0 / Language: Students will exemplify effective language choices by
  • Applying correct grammar and usage
  • Applying concise use of language
Incorporating strong verbs, precise nouns, / B / All other choices have punctuation and grammatical errors.
4 / WR-E-3.5.0 / WR-04-4.11.16
Students will correct run-on or awkward sentences.
WR-04-4.11.17
Students will correct sentence fragments.
WR-04-4.11.18
Students will combine short, choppy sentences effectively. / C / The other choices are run on or have grammatical errors.
5 / WR-E-3.5.0 / WR-04-4.11.18
Students will combine short, choppy sentences effectively. / A / The other choices do not follow the rules for grammar and punctuation.
6 / WR-E-3.5.0 / Language: Students will exemplify effective language choices by
  • Applying correct grammar and usage
  • Applying concise use of language
Incorporating strong verbs, precise nouns, / A / The other choices are not compound sentences.
7 / WR-E-3.5.0 / WR-04-4.11.16
Students will correct run-on or awkward sentences.
See Above / D / The only correct use of pronouns.
8 / WR-E-3.5.0 / WR-04-4.11.13
Students will apply knowledge of present, past and future verb tenses.
See Above / B / Correct verb tense