- 3. Select the best concluding sentence for the paragraph: Last summer, Kevin was playing basketball in front of his house.He threw the ball really high and it landed on the roof.He told his dad and his dad sald,"That was a good shot!" His dad got a ladder and got the basketball down. A. Kevin's dad hates basketball. B. Baseball is better than basketball. C. Now, Kevin tries to be more careful when playing. Binoculars are a fun tool that helps you see things close up that are really far away. You can use binoculars when you are on top of a tall building to see people and places that are far off in the distance.You can also use binoculars when you are In the forest or wilderness to look for small animals or special plants. A. Pick up a pair of binoculars today! B. Once,I lost my binoculars. C. My sister doesn't like binoculars. The flu can be a tricky sickness. The flu can make people feel tired and have a headache, body ache, and upset stomach. Sometimes when you have the flu, you may throw up.The flu Is contaglous, which means other people nearby you may get the flu when you have it. When you have the flu,you should go to the doctor,take medicine, and stay home and rest. A. A stomachache is another illness. B. Doctors will give you medicine. C. All in all, the flu is not fun to get. Last week, while you were walking to math class, you tripped on a book that someone dropped on the floor. You scraped your knee and elbow. Both were bleeding. You had to go to the nurse and get It cleaned up. You ended up missing all of math class. A. Math class is the worst. B. Now you are very careful when walking down the hallway. C. I go to Thomas Elementary School.
- Directions: Within each sentence select the blank line and choose 5 from the dropdown menu if the preceding pronoun is in the subjective case, from the dropdown menu if it is in the objective case,and P from the dropdown menu if it is in the possessive case. The following passage is taken from On Beauty by Zadie Smith. In the beginning of the novel, Kiki and Howard and two of their children, Zora and Levi,are having breakfast. The family has just received an e-mail from their oldest son, Jerome. In the e-mail, he announces that he wants to marry a girl that he has just met. (1) "How am I ( __ ) meant to react?"said Kikl, sighing. (2)She square ) laid down her knife and reached out for Levi, who was just passing with his bowl.(3) Grabbing her ( square ) robust 15-year old by his denim walstband, she pulled him to her ( __ - ) easily, forcing him down half a foot to her sitting level so that she could tuck the label of his basketball top back inside theycollar.(4) She put her thumbs on each side of his ( __ ) boxer shorts for another readjustment, but he tugged away from her."Morn man..." (5) [Lev's) faux Brooklyn accent belonged to neither Howard nor Klk and had only arrived in Levr's mouth 3 years earlier,as he ( __ ) turned 12. (6) Jerome and Zora had been born in England, Levi in America. (7) But all their ( __ ) various American accents seemed to Howard, in some way artificial- not quite the products of his house or his wife. (B) None,though, was as inexplicable as Levi's.
- Sometimes the author of a source may quote or paraphrase an idea from another source. This is known as an indirect source. For example, in an article written by Jones they include a quote written by Marlowe. If you're including the quote by Marlowe in your essay, how would you properly cite it? (Choose all that apply.) A Cite the article by Jones in your References list B Cite the book by Marlowe in your References list C Identify both Marlowe and Jones in your in-text citation.
- When using a quote from person you Linterviewed, include an in-text citation and References list citation. A True B False
- Directions: Read each of the example sentences, and then click on the blank lines in the questions that follow to select the correct answers from the dropdown menus to complete the sentences. __ You can borrow my camera if yours is broken. __ You is a subjective v pronoun. My and yours indicate possession of the cameras. __ We set up our tent next to theirs.
