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*GRAMMAR 13.7-13.9 TEST REVIEW REDO

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Grammar 13.7: Apostrophes

PART 1 of 4

DIRECTIONS:
1. In TWELVE of the sentences, insert an apostrophe where needed. (12 points)
*You may only add exactly one apostrophe OR one apostrophe + -s.
*Copy and paste the entire sentence into the box and then add in the apostrophe.
*Make sure to include the end mark in your answer.

2. THREE of the sentences are correct. For those sentences, write none in the box. (3 points)
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Have you met Carlos’s brother?

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I am looking for the childrens coats.

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I am feeding the Jones cat while they are on vacation.

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Marcie found someones purse on the floor of the classroom.

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Alan couldnt understand our lack of enthusiasm.

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Donna was awakened by the two movers shouts.

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The baby robin flapped its wings in vain.

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Linda was fascinated by the cars unique horn.

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Please direct Carl to the boys locker room.

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Its about time for the meeting to start.

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If Patty gets a hit, were sure to win the game.

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Mr. Ulrich didn’t receive anyones homework on time.

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The six Americans tour bus left an hour ago.

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Johann tried to join the womens discussion.

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Joan said that the soccer ball was hers.

Grammar 13.8: Hyphens

PART 2 of 4

DIRECTIONS:
1. In FIVE of the sentences, insert a hyphen where needed. (5 points)
*You may only add EXACTLY one hyphen.
*Copy and paste the entire sentence into the box and then add the hyphen while removing a space.
*Make sure to include the end mark in your answer.

2. In TWO of the sentences, remove a hyphen where needed. (2 points)
*You may only remove EXACTLY one hyphen.
*Copy and paste the entire sentence into the box and then remove the hyphen while adding a space.
*Make sure to include the end mark in your answer.

3. FIVE of the sentences are correct. For those sentences, write none in the box. (5 points)
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In government class, we studied the beginnings of the anti-poverty programs of President Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s.

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Sarah’s eighty-five-year-old great-grandmother was happily married to her husband for sixty one years.

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Be sure to include a well written letter with your job application.

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Because the waiter dropped the tray with our dinners, he was forced to reserve the entire meal!

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Jessica’s dad and step-mom are thirty-two and thirty-four.

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Nicole was surprised at how tiny a baby is at two weeks old.

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The news show offered a wide ranging review of the week’s important stories.

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Because he suffers from hay fever and other allergies, my uncle has to take anti-histamines often.

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Herbert Hoover was the thirty-first president of the United States.

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Rance is our first-string tackle.

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The middle aged man longed to return to his youth.

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The marching band boasted ninety-five members.

Grammar 13.8: Hyphens

PART 3 of 4

DIRECTIONS:
1. Rewrite each word with a hyphen to indicate where it would be divided if it were at the end of a
line. (8 points)
*You may only add EXACTLY one hyphen.
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member

1

madder

1

instant

1

shopping

1

vibrate

1

correct

1

richest

1

washable

Grammar 13.9: Dashes to Signal Change and to Emphasize

PART 4 of 4

DIRECTIONS:
1. In each sentence, insert dashes wherever necessary. (15 points)
*Look at the number in parentheses to determine how many dashes to include in the sentence.
*To create a dash, press the same key as the hyphen, but hit it twice.
*Copy and paste the entire sentence into the box and then add the dash(es).
*Make sure to include the end mark in your answer.
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The slight woman she smiled shyly and curtsied was Nelly Sachs. (2)

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Nelly Sachs the story of her life reads like a modern fairy tale was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. (2)

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Born in 1891 in Berlin the capital and leading city of Germany Nelly Sachs was the daughter of a well-to-do manufacturer. (2)

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The Sachses like many other middle-class and well-to-do Germans of the early twentieth century were Jewish. (2)

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As a teenager, Nelly decided to try to develop her talent for writing abandoning her early interest in dance and began to compose stories and poems. (2)

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Her first poems based on her observations of nature and on her reading Nelly collected in a book. (2)

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The Sachs family unaware of the violent storm building in their homeland lived a quiet, respectable life. (2)

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Looking out the windows of her home, Nelly might have seen organizers for a new political party the National Socialists, or Nazis. (1)

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In 1929 the economy of Germany and of all the industrialized world fell apart. (2)

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This period of economic hardship it was known as the Great Depression frightened people all over the world. (2)

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In Germany, many people believed that the leader of the Nazi party he was an Austrian who believed that power and might were Germany’s rightful future had the answers to Germany’s devastating economic problems. (2)

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Hitler had a simple explanation for all of the country’s problems “The Jews,” he claimed, “are poisoning Germany.” (1)

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The Nazis they now had total control of the country were prepared to enforce their will by imprisoning or murdering those who opposed them. (2)

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A series of laws they were known as the Nuremberg Laws and decreed that Jews were no longer citizens gradually eliminated the rights of Germans who were Jewish. (2)

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In the meantime, Nelly Sachs’s poetry because of its rhyme and subject matter had begun to be published. (2)