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Grammar Review

Grammar Review. FINAL FINAL Smackdown !. Colons. Among the things I have to buy from Whole Foods are : granola, milk, almonds, ice cream, and spaghetti sauce. . Arnold describes his split life between Rearden and Wellpinit : Zitty and lonely, I woke up on the reservation

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Grammar Review

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  1. Grammar Review FINAL FINAL Smackdown!

  2. Colons • Among the things I have to buy from Whole Foods are: granola, milk, almonds, ice cream, and spaghetti sauce.

  3. Arnold describes his split life between Rearden and Wellpinit: Zittyand lonely, I woke up on the reservation as an Indian, and somewhere on the road to Rearden, I became less than Indian. And once I arrived at Rearden, I became something less than less than Indian.

  4. My mom said the following to me : “Make sure to clean the cat, wash the dishes, put away your dirty clothes, and finish your homework by 8 o clock.”

  5. Kings 1 6:1-7

  6. While working at Starbucks for the first time, I had learned: how to make coffee, what ingredients go in a Frappuccino, and how many calories were in a cake pop.

  7. Semi-Colons • The world's coolest cities include: Shanghai, China; Istanbul, Turkey;and Boston, Massa chutes.

  8. The San Francisco 49ers had been winning; but this year the Baltimore Ravens beat them in the Super Bowl.

  9. Presentation High School had a location in Berkeley, California; but now the only location is in Willow Glen, California.

  10. American Indians are Native Americans;many other Americans are immigrants or descendants of immigrants.

  11. Quotation Marks or Italics • Does the following use quotations or italics? • The Great Gatsby

  12. Italics

  13. Us Weekly

  14. Italics

  15. A Dream Deferred (a poem by Langston Hughes)

  16. Quotations

  17. The Raven

  18. Quotations

  19. An Interview with Sherman Alexie

  20. Quotations

  21. Dialogue • “Maybe”, Emily said, “you can show me how to make a delicious sandwhich?”

  22. “The Michigan Wolverines are totally going to beat the Ohio State Buckeyes”, Tom said, “Go Blue!”

  23. “Ashley, please come finish your dinner. It’s getting cold”.

  24. Please stop saying, “Yolo”.

  25. “Don’t you think Logan Lerman is so cute?”, said Megan.

  26. Pronoun Haley and (I or me) bought tickets to the Miranda Lambert concert at Shoreline. • Answer: I

  27. Subject or Object Pronoun • They • we • Answer: subject

  28. Him • Us • Answer: object

  29. (They or them) gave us a discount on our dresses. • Answer: they

  30. She showed (us or we) the house on Mission Street. • Answer: us

  31. Apollo gave Maddy and (him or he) a free cookie at the mixer. • Answer: him

  32. Who or Whom • She and Liz, (who or whom) she carpooled with, both enjoy Justin Bieber. • Answer: whom

  33. Pres students, (who or whom) are very competitve with one another, enjoy PanPan. • Answer: who

  34. Apositives & Incomplete Constructs • (We or Us) sporty girls like to play soccer, water polo, volleyball, and tennis. • ANSWER: we

  35. Agreement with Antecedent • Neither of the girls brought (her or their) iPhone to school. • Answer: her

  36. Ending of a Sentence • What punctuation is missing from the following sentence? Do you know who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird? ?

  37. Abbreviation or Acronym? • Mr • Abbreviation

  38. A.M. Abbreviation

  39. CIA • Acronym

  40. Commas At break today, I ate an orange, Pres bread, and some popcorn.

  41. We enjoy swimming in the lake, running on the trail, and working out at Courtside.

  42. Compound Sentences and Phrases • Overjoyed, the girls ran to tell their mom that they just saw Ryan Reynolds.

  43. Stacey went to the mall, but Susie went to work.

  44. Intrigued by the noises outside, Emma went to see what was happening.

  45. Sentence Interrupters • Rylie, when do you need to be at school tomorrow?

  46. Shakespeare, by coincidence, was born and died on the same day.

  47. Nonessential Elements • Mantua, a city outside of Verona, is where Romeo is banished.

  48. Patrick Star, a character in Spongebob, is pink and fat.

  49. Computer Applications, a mandatory class at Presentation, is very difficult.

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