    LANGUAGE Capitalization

    For each item, black out the number of the word that needs to be capitalized.
    If no word needs to be capitalized, black out the “N” for “None.”

     1      yesterday I read an interesting                                                1 2 3 4 5 N

     2    article about norilsk, Russia. The                                               1 2 3 4 5 N

     3    article said that norilsk is                                                     1 2 3 4 5 N

     4    in siberia, at the foot                                                          1 2 3 4 5 N

     5    of the Putoran mountains. There                                                  1 2 3 4 5 N

     6    are large amounts of natural                                                     1 2 3 4 5 N

     7    resources in norilsk, which are                                                  1 2 3 4 5 N

     8    shipped to the city of                                                           1 2 3 4 5 N

     9    karanoyarsk by way of the                                                        1 2 3 4 5 N

     10   yenisei River. It is very                                                        1 2 3 4 5 N

     11   cold there and temperatures have                                                 1 2 3 4 5 N

     12   reached -63° f. Snow covers                                                      1 2 3 4 5 N

     13   the ground about 260 days                                                        1 2 3 4 5 N

     14   a year. i can’t imagine                                                          1 2 3 4 5 N

     15   living some place that cold.                                                     1 2 3 4 5 N




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    LANGUAGE Punctuation
    Please provide the correct punctuation below.



    “Over there ” said Hwin, pointing with her nose to the far side of the
    circle. “And I wish youd come and talk to him. There’s something
    wrong, I cant get a word out of him.

    They strolled across and found Bree lying with his face towards the
    wall, and though he must have heard them coming he never turned his
    head or spoke a word.

    “Good morning Bree, said Aravis. “How are you this morning ”

    Bree muttered something that no one could hear




           Excerpt from The Horse and His Boy, C. S. Lewis




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    LANGUAGE Punctuation
    Please provide the correct punctuation below.




           Dear Grace

              Wow I cant believe its been two months since I last
           saw you! I asked my mom when we could visit again, and
           she said, Well we will have to see how everyone’s
           feeling. Joel Josiah and Nathan have been sick.
           Yesterday Sarah my neighbor brought over her hamsters.
           Sarahs hamsters are the cutest! Have you ever seen a
           hamster Write back soon!

           Sincerely
           Jane




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    LANGUAGE Usage and Structure

    In Items 1-20 below, decide if each statement is written in standard English. If the statement is in
    standard English, fill in answer space T. If it is not in standard English, fill in answer space F.

     1    I have never seen a elephant.                                                            T       F

     2    These cherries are good.                                                                 T       F

     3    The bicycle was a present for they.                                                      T       F

     4    I had already eaten the cake.                                                            T       F

     5    Singing along with her friends and loving every minute.                                  T       F

     6    Diana and Peter is waiting for us.                                                       T       F

     7    That mountain is the taller of the three.                                                T       F

     8    Cory drive a red truck.                                                                  T       F

     9    Alex had drew a picture for his sister.                                                  T       F

    10 The new books are for you and he.                                                           T       F

    11 I think I am faster then you.                                                               T       F

    12 We girls enjoyed the movie.                                                                 T       F

    13 Thomas and them are going fishing.                                                          T       F

    14 The dogs is loud.                                                                           T       F

    15 The bird flew faster and faster.                                                            T       F

    16 When the train had finally arrived at the station.                                          T       F

    17 She makes her own breakfast.                                                                T       F

    18 A box and a newspaper is by the door.                                                       T       F

    19 You can’t hardly feel the wind.                                                             T       F

    20 The kids who played outside was hungry.                                                     T       F

    In Items 21-22 below, decide if the original sentence is transformed correctly. If it is transformed
    correctly, mark T for True. If it is not transformed correctly, mark F for False.

       It is snowing.
    21 The statement above can be transferred into a question which asks,                          T       F
       “Is it snowing?”

    22 The statement above can be transferred into a negative statement which reads,               T       F
       “It was not snowing.”




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    LANGUAGE Usage and Structure
    Read Items 1-4 below and choose the answer that best describes each preceding group of words. All
    punctuation marks have been intentionally removed from these items.

      1 Wendy makes beautiful paper flowers                  2 Max and Ronny are playing with their
                                                                puppy
            compound sentence
            complex sentence                                       compound sentence
            sentence fragment                                      complex sentence
            simple sentence                                        sentence fragment
            none of these                                          simple sentence
                                                                   none of these

      3 Because it is very cold outside                      4 After our last vacation in Orlando Florida

            compound sentence                                      compound sentence
            complex sentence                                       complex sentence
            sentence fragment                                      sentence fragment
            simple sentence                                        simple sentence
            none of these                                          none of these


    Read Items 5-8 below and choose the best answer.

      5 Put the papers on the desk.                          6 The horse is very         .

          The part underlined above is                          In the above sentence, the blank must be
                                                                filled with
            a verb
            a conjunction                                          an adverb
            a prepositional phrase                                 a verb
            a relative clause                                      a determiner
            none of these                                          an adjective
                                                                   none of the above


      7 I want to play outside, but it is too cold.          8 The inflectional morpheme ending -er is
                                                                added to
          The part underlined above is
                                                                   adjectives
            a preposition                                          nouns
            a conjunction                                          verbs
            an article                                             adverbs
            an appositive                                          none of these
            none of these




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    LANGUAGE Spelling

     For each group of words below, fill in the space next to the word that is spelled wrong. If none of the
     words is spelled wrong, fill in the space next to the words “none of these.”

          shallow                     governer                     torch                   timeing
          ivory                       unlucky                      patch                   foggy
          croud                       clothing                     furniture               newspaper
          advice                      hopeless                     calm                    doctor
          none of these               none of these                none of these           none of these

          shave                       visitor                      jiant                   angry
          jeans                       ignore                       cupcake                 apple
          crush                       crain                        stick                   little
          avode                       coast                        pencil                  marbel
          none of these               none of these                none of these           none of these

          possible                    feast                        racoon                  another
          grasp                       sudden                       carpenter               thunder
          comik                       betray                       curve                   incorect
          quiet                       troble                       wrapped                 remember
          none of these               none of these                none of these           none of these

          dangerus                    wobble                       hopefuly                candle
          railroad                    understand                   cousin                  absent
          breakfast                   consonant                    wonder                  hammer
          sunnier                     shuvel                       smiled                  impatient
          none of these               none of these                none of these           none of these

          nerse                       pearl                        geese                   disturb
          decided                     movement                     border                  aslepe
          except                      tommorrow                    husband                 enormous
          displayed                   staircase                    thousand                hockey
          none of these               none of these                none of these           none of these

          spare                       interest                     attention               through
          address                     airport                      frendship               tonight
          achieve                     celebration                  rhyme                   beauty
          squere                      sugested                     daughter                cotage
          none of these               none of these                none of these           none of these




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    LANGUAGE Capitalization

    For each item, black out the number of the word that needs to be capitalized.
    If no word needs to be capitalized, black out the “N” for “None.”

     1      yesterday I read an interesting                                                1 2 3 4 5 N

     2    article about norilsk, Russia. The                                               1 2 3 4