Grammar Spiral 23

Reorder the paragraph below.

• First, the alarm didn't go off.

• Then he found two angry cats waiting for him at his car.

• What a day Mr. Albrecht had!

• That night, his Frisbee game was canceled due to the weather.

• At about noon, he got a headache that lasted all afternoon.

Lilly pushed her carrots to one side of her plate. She flattened the top of her mashed potatoes and placed one carrot there. Then she cut her meat into small pieces. She put them in a circle around her mound of potatoes. "Aren't you got to eat, Lilly? her mother asked.

What is the main idea?

• Lilly pushed her carrots aside.

• Lilly's mother asked her a question.

• Lilly played with her food instead of eating it.

The horse's hide shone like a copper kettle.

Which type of figurative language is this sentence an example of?

• simiie

• metaphor

• hyperbold

• personification

Retype the sentence below adding commas where they are needed.

I had brought in the newspaper picked up the mail watered the plants and fed all the pets before Dad got home.

My three ______ decided to share an apartment.

• brothers

• brother's

• brothers'

You'll find my _______ apartment on West Elm Street.

• brothers

• brother's

• brothers'

My oldest ________ car is parked there now.

• brothers

• brother's

• brothers'

The base word in unwise and wisely is...

The handmade wooden toys in the craft shop were made of _________.

• metal

• pine

• plastic

• paper

The suffix -en in words like wooden and woolen means ____________.

• made of

• looking like

• near

• under