Sentence Structure

1. In art club this afternoon, Logan used his scissors and put <it> in his bag when he was done.

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Determine the correct pronoun to be used instead of the word within . If sentence is already correct, choose C.

Them
C
His
Are

2. Interjections:

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First 3 sentences:
1. Wow! What a beautiful day!
2. Oh! You startled me.
3. Well, I’m not certain.

Last 3 sentences:
4. There must be, oh my, at least one hundred spiders.
5. We enjoyed the game, but, gee, it was challenging.
6. We won the game! Awesome!

In the sentences the interjections are only in the first 3 sentences because interjections are only used at the start of a sentence
In all sentences because interjections interrupt the sentence and are set off by commas.
The last 3 sentences because those are real interjections
All sentences because it doesn’t matter

3. Alexander’s young sons were killed_____his generals wanted to divide the kingdom among themselves.

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Find the correct conjunction

But
So
And
Although

4. Adjectives:

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Choose the right answer that describes the word in question correctly.

All of the above
Adjectives modify nouns
An adjective is a word or word group (phrase or clause) that is used to modify a noun or pronoun.
to modify as a word that means to describe or to make its meaning more definite by telling what kind, which one, or how much/may.

5. Adverbs:

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All of the above
Adverbs make verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs more specific by modifying them. Like nouns and adjectives, they may be a word or word group (including a phrase or clause).
They answer the questions Where? When? How? Why? To What extent? Under what circumstances/conditions?
It is best to identify words as adverbs by what question they answer and what word or word group they modify. Most often than not adverbs end with the suffix –ly.

6. When you listen carefully to what the teacher says, you will get a high grade.

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Read the sentence and identify the subordinating clause.

When you listen
You listen carefully
When you listen carefully to what the teacher said
What the teacher says

7. Nouns can act in a sentence as:

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Direct object
Simple subject
Object of the preposition
All of the above

8. The students had a strategy for the basketball game during practice, so they assigned each player a position.

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identify sentence structure as simple (S), compound (Cd), complex (Cx), compound -complex (CC)

Cx
Cd
CC
S

9. Either Owen or Henry will present <their> report first.

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Determine the correct pronoun to be used instead of the word within . If a sentence is already correct, choose C.

It
His
C
Them

10. Please do not tell your friends how the story ends.

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