Grammar Usage

Which sentence has an incorrect shift in verb tense?

• Carol has soccer practice, and Mike has softball practice.

• I am in junior band, and we practice twice a week.

• Everyone gets home at a different time, and we're all hungry.

• However, we never have dinner before Mom got home from work.

Which two sentences use the incorrect verb tenses?

• The newspaper says it will rain on Saturday.

• We will go to a movie if it does rain.

• Mom says we deciding our plan on Friday.

• Our family wants to go on a trip this weekend.

Which two sentences do not use correct verb tense?

• Yesterday, I went to the shopping mall with my mom.

• The shoe store was so crowded that we could not even get inside.

• People stand in line that reached the escalator.

• I wondered what was going on and started to worry.

• My favorite college basketball player was at the store to sign autographs!

Choose the two sentences that are missing a comma.

• The little boy pretended as if he had no idea how the chocolate milk spilled on the new rug.

• Once we realized that the thunderstorm was headed toward us we gathered our picnic basket and finished eating in the car.

• Before our class goes to the cafeteria all of the students wash their hands.

• She helps me with homework every day after school.

• The fifth-graders hope that they will be allowed to sit with their friends in the cafeteria starting next week.

Read the following sentences. Choose the sentence that does not have errors in punctuation.

• When Mr. Dean went to the store, he bought eggs, bread, and milk for ten dollars.

• The fifth-grade teachers gave math homework on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, last month.

• Sharon, Todd, and Corey, enjoy spending their Saturdays building rockets for the science fair.

• Ever since she was in Kindergarten, Ella has loved reading, coloring, and painting, during her free time.

Which words in the sentence should be followed by a comma?

• Ellen, book

• Ellen, isn't

• book, library

• library, isn't

Choose the sentence that is punctuated correctly.

• If, it starts to thunder, swimmers must leave the pool.

• My cousin who lives on Main Street, loves to watch movies.

• Eventually, the travelers realized that, they had somehow gotten lost.

• Finally, in the last seconds of the game, Jenny made a home run to win the game.

Choose the sentence that is correctly punctuated.

• Mr. Thomas the carpenter, lives at 42 Bird Lane Goodwill.

• Mr. Thomas the carpenter lived at 42 Bird Lane, Goodwill.

• Mr. Thomas, the carpenter lived at, 42 Bird Lane, Goodwill.

• Mr. Thomas, the carpenter, lives at 42 Bird Lane, Goodwill.

Choose the word that BEST completes the sentence.

The maid ______ her work well.

• do

• does do

• does

• doing

Choose the word that BEST completes the sentence.

I like to listen to the birds when they _________ in the morning.

• sing

• singing

• sang

• sung