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

Select the misspelled word

• nieghbor

• embark

• delicate

• constitution

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).

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

• they

• them

Choose the synonym for: meager

• bare

• flimsy

• coarse

• ample

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

• themselves

• themself

• theirself

• thyself

If you vanquish your fears, you...

• conquer them.

• you hide them.

• create them.

• heighten them.

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

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.

Choose a matching analogy. cactus : plant

• vehicle : car

• truck : wheels

• apartment : abode

• fish : flounder