STUDY GUIDE FOR THE FIFTH BIMONTHLY EXAM

Its very important that you answer this guide, you have to print it and bring it to the english class for Tuesday, June 15th.

Add periods, question marks and exclamation points where necessary in the following paragraph. (7 points)

Have you ever seen or heard about an annual Vermont town meeting Every spring, around maple sugaring time, all the town’s citizens meet in the town hall There they vote on any issue that concerns them, from rats in the town dump to school issues to international problems Even though a town has no responsibility for international relations, citizens express their opinions proudly what a way to practice democracy the town meeting is a grand social occasion, as well People get to meet and greet their neighbors after the long Vermont winter

Insert commas where necessary in the following sentences.( 11 points)

-Nurses today work at hospitals school camps homes and work places.
-Kenny an Australian nurse aroused controversy due to her treatment methods
-Without any medical training she treated victims of polio in the bush country.
-The play is scheduled for December 19 2000 to January 9 2001 but there may be an extension.
-The address of the auditorium is 75 Brinton Street Toledo Ohio


Add quotation marks where necessary in the dialogue below. (7 points)

A scientist has announced that her team will find intelligent life else where in the universe.
Interesting! Says Dr. Potts. I’d like to see how she plans to do this.
That claims Dr. Barbosa is preposterous. I don´t believe she´ll find anything.
Dr. Potts retorts Dr. Barbosa, the universe is large. Can´t you admit that intelligent life might be out there somewhere?
No. I don´t believe in any of these alien or UFO stories Dr. Barbosa replies.
I don´t believe the stories either, but I do believe tha aliens exist concludes Dr. Potts.

Add semicolons and colons where they are needed in the following sentences. (7 points)

- I don’t mind cats, dogs, or fish but she wants to have lizards, snakes , and spiders
- Joan doesn´t study she’s unlikely to do well in math.
- However , Joan is a good athlete she trains hard.
- The dogs get fed at 7 00 A.M. and 6 00 P.M
- My father is from Atlanta, Georgia my mother is from Portland, Maine and I was born in Chicago.


Add dashes and parentheses where they are needed in these sentences.

- Light travels at the rate of 300,000 kilometers per second 186,000 miles per second
- Copernicus as you might know decided that the earth travels around the sun.
- Halley’s comet I’ve never seen it approaches the earth about every 76 years.
- The world´s largest telescope the Keck Telescope sits in a volcano in Hawaii.
- The mass of one black hole my goodness! Is estimated to be around 3.5 billion times that of the sun.


In each sentence below, underline the word that uses the apostrophe incorrectly or should have an apostrophe but does not.Then write the word correctly in the line.- Shes the one who can play difficult piano music. _______________
- It’s a wonder you got any of those problems right. ________________
- I wonder what theyre going to bring ________________
- The authors corrections were not always legible. ________________
- Three boy´s left their books in their lockers. ________________



Use each title given in parentheses in a sentence, punctuating the title correctly.

- ( patriotic song: Yankee Doodle)
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- (long musical work by Ludwig Van Beethoven: Fifth Symphony)
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- (short story featuring Sherlock Holmes: The speckled Band)
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- ( poem from alice in wonderland: Jabberwocky)
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- (luhar landing craft: The Eagle)
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FROM LITERATURE
Write the definitions for the following words.

- plot _____________________________________________________
-Cause _____________________________________________________
-Effect _____________________________________________________
-Details _____________________________________________________
-Time line _____________________________________________________
- syllable _____________________________________________________
-Main idea _____________________________________________________
-Headings _____________________________________________________
-legends _____________________________________________________
-Homophones _____________________________________________________
-nonfiction _____________________________________________________
author´s bias_____________________________________________________