6th grade: 5-A-Day Language Assessment: Week 35

The coaches faced controversy when they decided to let their star athlete play in the game despite his poor grades. controversy means:

• A disagreement or dispute

• A celebration or compliment

• A routine decision

• A team strategy

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Select the misspelled word

• nieghbor

• embark

• delicate

• constitution

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2E

CCSS.L.K.2D

CCSS.RF.1.3C

CCSS.RF.2.3A

CCSS.RF.2.3B

Choose the correct rewritten sentence with a nonrestrictive element using parentheses from the options below: Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States.

• Barack Obama (the 44th president) was elected the president of the United States.

• Barack Obama, the 44th president, was elected the president of the United States.

• Barack Obama (the President, 44th) was elected in the United States.

• Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States (2008).

Tags

CCSS.L.6.2A

Choose the correct pronoun for the sentence. Dr. Hass and (they, them) will prepare for surgery.

• they

• them

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CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.6.1A

CCSS.L.6.1C

CCSS.L.6.1D

Choose the synonym for: meager

• bare

• flimsy

• coarse

• ample

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CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.L.5.5C

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

Complete the sentence with an appropriate intensive pronoun. They _______________ knew their product was causing people to become sick.

• themselves

• themself

• theirself

• thyself

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CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.2.1C

CCSS.L.2.1D

CCSS.L.6.1B

If you vanquish your fears, you...

• conquer them.

• you hide them.

• create them.

• heighten them.

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

8. What is the meaning of the Greek or Latin root/affix. sym/syn

• Together or with

• Apart or separate

• Above or beyond

• Below or under

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CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.8.4B

9. Which of the following revisions of the sentence 'The doctor told Suzy that she might be sick' removes the vague pronoun by clarifying who might be sick?

• The doctor told Suzy that Suzy might be sick.

• The doctor told Suzy that the doctor might be sick.

• The doctor told Suzy that someone might be sick.

• The doctor told Suzy that both might be sick.

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CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.6.1A

CCSS.L.6.1C

CCSS.L.6.1D

Choose a matching analogy. cactus : plant

• vehicle : car

• truck : wheels

• apartment : abode

• fish : flounder

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CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D