Halloween Grammar

Spot the mistake:

The festival of halloween is celebrated at the end of October.

• proper nouns do not have capital letters.

• halloween is spelt incorrectly

• It needs a comma

• There is no mistake

Answer explanation

October and Halloween are proper nouns! They need a capital letter.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.2A

During Halloween childs go trick or treating.

• child should be children.

• childs should be childrens

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1B

What´s the mistake? The wolfs were howling at the full moon.

• It´s fine.

• wolfs should be wolves

• were should be was

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1B

CCSS.L.3.2E

Is this the correct use of an apostrophe?

The dog´s have silly Halloween costumes on.

• Yes, it´s correct. It shows that the dogs own something.

• No, dogs is plural. It doesn´t need an apostrophe.

• Yes, the apostrophe shows where a word is missing.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2D

Is this apostrophe correct?

They are Valentina Vampire´s teeth

• No, it´s not correct. There should just be an ´s´

• Yes, it shows the teeth belong to Valentina.

• Yes, it shows that a word is missing.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2D

What word best fits this sentence?

____is Halloween? It´s the 31st of October.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.4A

Spot the mistake:

Blanca screamid when she saw a ghost.

• There is no mistake.

• Ghost is spelt wrong

• Screamid is spelt wrong

Answer explanation

it´s a regular verb! add ´ed´to scream to put it in the past tense.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1D

CCSS.L.3.2E

bleed in the past is....

• bleeded

• bled

• blod

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1D

CCSS.L.3.1E

Why is there an apostrophe in this sentence?

I´m scared of zombies.

• The zombies belong to me.

• It is contracting two words to make one.

• There is always an apostrophe with I.

Put this sentence in the past tense:

Santiago eats lots of chocolates at the disco.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1D

CCSS.L.3.1E