Friday, June 12, 2015

Final Grammar Practice

Put commas where necessary.

The man in the long black coat stood somberly in the corner.

Robert is a warm gentle father.

People who obtain a college degree tend to earn more money than those that don't.

Langston Hughes who was a poet during the Harlem Renaissance wrote poetry that was concerned with racial pride and social justice.




Put commas, colons, and semicolons where necessary.


The weather this week may include hailstorms sun showers and overcast skies.

I am eager to read a number of books this summer The Ministry of Bad Taste by Jonathan Franzen Wolfe Hall by Hillary Mantel and Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre.



Are the following sentences grammatically correct?  If not, fix them.

Most lions at night hunt for medium sized prey, such as zebra.

Many students graduate with debt from college totaling more than fifty thousand dollars.

Though not eligible for the clinical trial, John was still able to gain access to an experimental drug.



IXL Info

11H English IXL Grammar Work


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Complete the following under Grade 10

KK1 U2 W3 K3 C3 B1 B2


These are the modules we did and that you will be responsible for on the quiz.

They cover the following:
-MLA Citations
-Misplaced/Dangling Modifiers
-Commas with Essential vs. Non-essential info
-Parallel Structure
-Commas, Semicolons, Colons