Identifying Sentence Errors and Improving Sentences Quiz

Choose the answer that best improves the underlined portion of the sentence.

The herd of zebras move across the plains of the Serengeti with speed and grace.

• move

• moves

• moved

• moving

• was moving

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CCSS.L.6.1E

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.6

Choose the answer that best improves the underlined portion of the sentence.

There once was a Roman emperor, who, did nothing but sit around all day long and feed the pigeons.

• emperor, who,

• emperor, whom,

• emperor, that,

• emperor, which,

• emperor who

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CCSS.L.6.2A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Choose the answer that best improves the underlined portion of the sentence.

Kneepads, elbow pads, and a helmet is required at the skate park.

• Kneepads, elbow pads, and a helmet is required

• Kneepads, elbow pads, and, a helmet, is required

• Kneepads, elbow pads, and a helmet is requires

• Kneepads, elbow pads, and a helmet are required

• Kneepads, elbow pads, and a helmet, is required

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CCSS.L.6.1E

CCSS.L.6.6

Choose the answer that best improves the underlined portion of the sentence.

Jenny's piggy bank, fell from the shelf and shattered into a thousand tiny pieces.

• bank, fell

• bank, falls

• bank falls

• bank that fell

• bank fell

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CCSS.L.6.1E

CCSS.L.6.3A

Choose the answer that best improves the underlined portion of the sentence.

She thought she had bought temporary hair dye; therefore, her hair was bright orange for three months, so it seemed she made a mistake.

• ; therefore, her hair

• ; and, her hair

• , and her hair

• ; thus, her hair

• , but her hair

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CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.W.6.2C

Choose the answer that best improves the underlined portion of the sentence.

Dogs are man's best friend, except when dog scratches the sofa or soils the carpet.

• Dogs are man's best friend,

• Dogs are men's best friend,

• Dogs are man's best friends

• Dogs were man's best friend

• A dog is man's best friend

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CCSS.L.6.1C

Choose the answer that best improves the underlined portion of the sentence.

Sometimes the house gets so disorganized and messy; we need a professional cleaning crew.

• Sometimes the house gets so disorganized and messy; we

• Sometimes the house gets so disorganized and messy: we

• Sometimes the house gets so disorganized and messy. We

• Sometimes the house gets so disorganized and messy because we

• Sometimes the house gets so disorganized and messy that we

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CCSS.L.6.2A

Choose the answer that best improves the underlined portion of the sentence.

My uncle played baseball in the minor leagues not only in the United States and in Japan.

• not only in the United States and in Japan.

• not only in the United States after in Japan.

• not only in the United States and in Japan in addition.

• not only in the United States but also in Japan.

• not only in the United States but in Japan, too.

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CCSS.L.6.1E

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.6

Choose the answer that best improves the underlined portion of the sentence.

Determine to make his mark in the business world, Larry went to grad school for his M.B.A.

• Determine

• Determined

• By determining

• Because of determination

• Determination

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CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RI.6.4

Choose the answer that best improves the underlined portion of the sentence.

Remember that movie stars, however snotty and bratty they are now, was once a regular person just like everyone else.

• was once a regular person

• were once a regular person

• were once regular people

• was once regular people

• once, as a regular people,

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CCSS.L.6.1C

CCSS.L.6.6