1. 10 Question PSAT Grammar Warm Up

2. 1. The nature trail is six feet wide and seven miles long
1. The nature trail is six feet wide and seven miles long. It slithers through the forest like a snake curving, and bending along the banks of the river.
A. NO CHANGE
B. snake curving and, bending
C. snake curving and bending
D. snake, curving, and bending

3. 2. The county cleared this path and paved it with packed gravel, so they would have a peaceful place to hike and bike.
A. NO CHANGE
B. knowing they
C. that they
D. people

4. 3. Today, Luigi’s battery is fully charged, I know I can go all the way to the end of the trail and back. But I always carry a cell phone on me just in case.
A. NO CHANGE
B. charged, because of that,
C. charged, this means that
D. charged, so

5. 4. The wind ruffles my hair and chills my face as I bounce gently, along in my padded chair.
A. NO CHANGE
B. gentle, along
C. gently along
D. gentle along

6. 5. Bicyclists streak past in a blur of color and a cloud of dust I don’t understand their hurry.
A. NO CHANGE
B. dust, however,
C. dust.
D. dust,

7. 6. I leave the trail and come out into the open, manicured park at the trails end.
A. NO CHANGE
B. trail’s
C. trails’
D. trails’s

8. 7. At 2 p.m., on October 27, 1904; thousands of New York City residents poured into the streets of Manhattan.
A. NO CHANGE
B. 2 p.m. on October 27, 1904, thousands
C. 2 p.m. on October 27, 1904; thousands,
D. 2 p.m. on October 27, 1904, thousands,

9. 8. The city was celebrating an incredible engineering feat; the completion of the first section of the New York City Subway.
A. NO CHANGE
B. feat, over
C. feat:
D. feat

10. 9. The first train took twenty-six minutes to complete the route, which ran from City Hall to West 145th Street in under a half an hour.
A. NO CHANGE
B. in the completion of its route
C. in twenty-six minutes
D. DELETE the underlined portion and end the sentence with a period.

11. 10. As early as 1865, there had been proposals for a New York subway, but that took decades to resolve the many political, financial and technical challenges.
A. NO CHANGE
B. it
C. those
D. DELETE the underlined portion

12. Let’s go over the answers!
Rotate clockwise at your table and write “checked by” and your name at the bottom of your paper!

13. 1. The nature trail is six feet wide and seven miles long
1. The nature trail is six feet wide and seven miles long. It slithers through the forest like a snake curving, and bending along the banks of the river.
A. NO CHANGE
B. snake curving and, bending
C. snake curving and bending (unnecessary comma)
D. snake, curving, and bending

14. 2. The county cleared this path and paved it with packed gravel, so they would have a peaceful place to hike and bike.
A. NO CHANGE
B. knowing they
C. that they
D. people (unclear pronoun reference)

15. 3. Today, Luigi’s battery is fully charged, I know I can go all the way to the end of the trail and back. But I always carry a cell phone on me just in case.
A. NO CHANGE
B. charged, because of that,
C. charged, this means that
D. charged, so (comma splice/run-on)

16. 4. The wind ruffles my hair and chills my face as I bounce gently, along in my padded chair.
A. NO CHANGE
B. gentle, along
C. gently along (unnecessary comma)
D. gentle along

17. 5. Bicyclists streak past in a blur of color and a cloud of dust I don’t understand their hurry.
A. NO CHANGE
B. dust, however,
C. dust. (run-on)
D. dust,

18. 6. I leave the trail and come out into the open, manicured park at the trails end.
A. NO CHANGE
B. trail’s (use apostrophe to show possession)
C. trails’
D. trails’s

19. 7. At 2 p.m., on October 27, 1904; thousands of New York City residents poured into the streets of Manhattan.
A. NO CHANGE
B. 2 p.m. on October 27, 1904, thousands (comma after introductory phrase/date)
C. 2 p.m. on October 27, 1904; thousands,
D. 2 p.m. on October 27, 1904, thousands,

20. 8. The city was celebrating an incredible engineering feat; the completion of the first section of the New York City Subway.
A. NO CHANGE
B. feat, over
C. feat: (confusing semi-colon and colon)
D. feat

21. 9. The first train took twenty-six minutes to complete the route, which ran from City Hall to West 145th Street in under a half an hour.
A. NO CHANGE
B. in the completion of its route
C. in twenty-six minutes
D. DELETE the underlined portion and end the sentence with a period. (be concise; avoid wordiness and unnecessary repetition)

22. 10. As early as 1865, there had been proposals for a New York subway, but that took decades to resolve the many political, financial and technical challenges.
A. NO CHANGE
B. it (unclear pronoun reference)
C. those
D. DELETE the underlined portion