Lesson 7: Language Focus: Writing Conventions
1. Choose the meaning of the bold word. ...those were pterodactyls soaring with cavernous gray wings, gigantic bats of delirium and night fever.( "A Sound of Thunder")
Crazed thoughts
2. Choose the meaning of the bold word.His management style was not very rigid or hierarchical; as long as someone got his or her job done, almost anything went.("Nolan Bushnell")
Arranged by rank
3. Choose the meaning of the bold word.He got a foot on it, and in the mayhem of other boy's arms and legs,noticed the ball rolling loose. ("Nethergrave")
Confusion
4. Choose the meaning of the bold word. The attendant vaulted into the car, backup it up with insolent skill, and put it where it belonged.("The Secret Life of Walter Mitty")
Jumped
5. Choose the meaning of the bold.Walter Mitty the Undefeated, inscrutable to the last.("The Secret Life Of Walter")
Mysterious
6. Identify the incorrectly punctuated sentence.
He washed his hair brushed his teeth, and shined his shoes.
7. Identify the incorrectly punctuated sentence.
Daniel received two, expensive parking tickets.
8.Identify the incorrectly punctuated sentence.
On our trip we will be driving, and taking the train
9. Identify the incorrectly punctuated sentence.
This product is, for cleaning glass
10. Identify the correctly punctuated sentence.
Throwing the football, he pulled a muscle in his arm.
11. Identify the correctly punctuated sentence.
George Washington was born on February 22, 1732.
12. In which sentence is the nonessential clause underlined?
Its coloring, which is brown and green,allows it to hide in marshy areas.
13. In which sentence is the essential clause underlined?
The person who sells souvenirs is in the lobby.
14. Identify the word or phase that should be in underlined? Riding the Orient Express toward Istanbul, Tom read the novels of Mark Twain.
Orient Express
15. Identify the word or phase that should be in italics. He felt a character in a Steven Spielberg movie as he listened to a Strauss waltz while eating spaghetti in the dining car.
None
16. Identify the sentence that contains no errors in punctuation or use of italics.
"Do they have puppies there?" she asked.
17. Identify the sentence that contains no errors in punctuation or use of italics.
T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land is often studied in English classes.
18. Identify the sentence that contains no errors in punctuation or use of italics.
"I am absolutely positive," Vera replied.
19. Identify the appropriate punctuation for the underline word or phase. Irving Berlin wrote White Christmas and many other popular songs.
Quotation marks
20. Identify the appropriate punctuation for the underlined word or phrase. My favorite movie is The Empire Strikes Back.
Italics
21. Identify the appropriate punctuation for the underlined word or phrase. In high school, I enjoyed reading The Catcher in the Rye.
Italics
22. Identify the word or words in the sentence that need to be capitalized. do the boys who live down the street want to visit washington d.c. with us?
Do, Washington D.C.
23. Identify the word or words in the the sentence that need to be capitalized.
Does, Jennifer, Florida
24. Identify the word or words in the sentence that need to be capitalized.
Will, Giants, Sunday
25. Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
"Are you finished yet?"Miriam asked.
26. Which sentence correctly uses punctuation with dialogue?
"Please be seated," my teacher said.
27. Which of the following sentences is punctuated correctly
On Tuesday, October 29, 1929, stockholders sold millions of shares of stock.
28. Which of the following sentences in punctuated correctly?
Mississippi, the Magnolia State, is known for its delicious food.
