Benchmark Test #5Grammar and Writing

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Part 1

Pronouns

Best Choice for a Pronoun? Read out loud.THEM

Verbs

Present Tense Verb NeededHAVE

Adjectives and Adverbs

You need an ADVERB, not an ADJECTIVE

SEE THROUGH CLEARLY

Prepositional Phrases

Read sentences out loud. Which one flows the best and has proper punctuation marks?

In those days there were no eye doctors, so people visited eyeglass peddlers.

Commas

Focus on proper placement of commas.

In 1286, well before Benjamin Franklin, the first eyeglasses were created in Italy.

Commas

Only one comma needed after introductory phraseAbout twenty-five years later, sidepieces were invented.

Sentence Combining

Sentence Combining

Louisa wrote a report about the invention of eyeglasses. To best support this essay, Louisa should include an illustration of

A.a person wearing modern eyeglasses

B. both modern and old-fashioned eyeglasses

C. an eyeglass peddler’s cart with customers

D. the glass and sidepieces used in making early lenses

Conjunctions

BECAUSE

Troublesome Words

Colons

The teacher suggested that each student bring these items:

Commas

Apostrophes, Possessives, Plurals

Quotation Marks

“What will we learn today”? one student asked, entering the classroom.

“Our goal for today,” Mr. Jimenez announced, “is to read Chapter 8.”

“I think that’s the chapter about molecules, Trish told her friend Erik.”

“I hope we get to do some experiments”, Erik replied.

Verbs

CONSISTED=Past tense verbNext verb must be past tense, also

WERE MADE

Conjunctions

Best Choice for a Subordinating Conjunction?SinceBecauseAlthough

Be careful not to change the meaning of the sentence.

ALTHOUGH

Revision/Prepositional Phrases

Best Way to Rewrite this Sentence:

These are the tools your great-grandmother used for all of her sewing projects.

Commas and Conjunctions

Comma AND Conjunction

from it, and each ribbon

Prepositional Phrases & Commas

Sentence Combining

Part 2

Pronouns

Best Pronoun?

Imprints on THEM

Plurals and Possessives

No Mistake-Correct As Is

Sentence Combining

Irrelevant Sentences

Some are labeled, while others are not.

Titles

Look carefully for these answers as you read the report on the next slide:•Who is the audience?•What type of writing is it?•Are the paragraphs arranged in the best order?•Are the sentences well-written with transitions?•Do they support their paragraphs?

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