6th Grade: 5-A-Day Language Assessment: Week 17

Usethe context clues that help you understand what provision means.

You can study at Grant’s house with the provision that you are back home before dinner.

• condition or requirement

• meal or snack

• permission or allowance

• time or schedule

Choose the misspelled word.

• claim

• amature

• serious

• professional

Which sentence correctly adds a nonrestrictive element using parentheses?

• My brother (who is a doctor) lives in New York.

• My brother who is a doctor lives in New York.

• My brother, who is a doctor, lives in New York.

• My brother who is a doctor, lives in New York.

Choose the correct pronoun for the sentence. Identify if it is subjective, objective, or possessive.

My sister does not like carrots, but I love ( ).

• them

• they

Choose the synonym for: social

• unpleasant

• friendly

• amicable

• malcontent

Complete the sentence with an appropriate intensive pronoun. After their apprenticeship, the students ____________ must find jobs.

• themselves

• itself

• himself

• herself

Which of the following might be improvised?

• a) a memory

• b) lines in a play

• c) a tissue

• d) the past

Write the meaning of the Greek or Latin root/affix. gran - ____________

• gran - grain

• gran - water

• gran - light

• gran - stone

Which word in the sentence is the vague pronoun? Even though Sasha had lunch with Margo, she was still hungry.

• she

• Sasha

• lunch

• Margo

Choose a matching analogy. devoted : loyal

• fascinating : doubtful

• challenging : simple

• daunting : light

• charming : charismatic