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2. Subject/Verb Agreement
Figurative Language
Subject/Verb Agreement
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Sentence Structure
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3. What type of figurative language is used: I'm reading a book about anti- gravity. It's impossible to put down.

4. Pun

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

6. Proverb

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

8. Simile

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

10. Metaphor

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

12. Idiom

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

14. Were

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

16. Is

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

18. Are

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

20. Is

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

22. Were

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

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

25. Write the sentence correctly: First he builded a sandcastle.

26. First, he built a sandcastle.

27. Write the sentence correctly: Then, he collected seashells.

28. No Changes

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

30. Ryan went swimming and surfing.

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

32. Finally, we ate a picnic lunch.

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

34. Fragment

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

36. Run-on

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

38. Complete sentence

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

40. Complex

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

42. Compound Sentence

43. Provide a Synonym for: Sick

44. ill

45. Provide a Synonym for: Shout

46. Holler

47. Provide a Synonym for: hard

48. Difficult

49. Provide a Synonym for: tired

50. Exhausted

51. Provide a Synonym for: Angry

52. Furious

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

54. Fake

55. 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.

56. Full

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

58. Excess

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

60. Boring

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

62. Cancel