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Subject/Verb Agreement Figurative Language Subject/Verb Agreement Editing/Revising Sentence Structure Synonyms Context Clues 100 200 300 400 500

What type of figurative language is used: I'm reading a book about anti- gravity. It's impossible to put down.

Pun

What type of figurative language is used: An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Proverb

What type of figurative language is used: She hung her head like a dead flower.

Simile

What type of figurative language is used: Walt Disney is a luminary

Metaphor

What type of figurative language is used: If I don’t get that video game, I will die

Idiom

Both Vincent Van Gogh and Pablo Picasso (was, were) great artists.

Were

Either the artist or the patron (is, are) going to be present.

Is

The Wongs and the Sterlings (is, are) friends.

Are

Either canned goods or money (is, are) an acceptable donation.

Is

There (were, was) seven ducks in the pond this afternoon.

Were

Write the sentence correctly: Did you no ryan went to the beach last weekend.

Did you know that Ryan went to the beach last weekend?

Write the sentence correctly: First he builded a sandcastle.

First, he built a sandcastle.

Write the sentence correctly: Then, he collected seashells.

No Changes

Write the sentence correctly: Ryan goed swimming, and surfing.

Ryan went swimming and surfing.

Write the sentence correctly: finally we eaten a picknick lunch.

Finally, we ate a picnic lunch.

Identify the sentence type: A region that receives little water.

Fragment

Identify the sentence type: Animals and plants live in the desert they have developed ways to survive the hot dry climate.

Run-on

Identify the sentence type: Piles of sand called dunes cover parts of the desert.

Complete sentence

Identify the sentence type: Months may pass between rainfalls, they may be violent.

Complex

Identify the sentence type: Many desert animals hide in burrows and beneath rocks, but they become active at night.

Compound Sentence

Provide a Synonym for: Sick

ill

Provide a Synonym for: Shout

Holler

Provide a Synonym for: hard

Difficult

Provide a Synonym for: tired

Exhausted

Provide a Synonym for: Angry

Furious

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the underlined word: The counterfeit money was not accepted at the retailer.

Fake

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the underlined word: The bin of potatoes in the cellar was replete; we would not run out of food all winter.

Full

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the underlined word: I have a plethora of cookies, please take as many as you want.

Excess

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the underlined word: Sitting in study hall all day was tedious.

Boring

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the underlined word: Please nullify the agreement; I am not interested anymore.

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