5th Grade Language Arts

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5th Grade Language Arts
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• 1. Which is an interrogative sentence?  
•   Can you find a new place to play chess?  
• B.   What a time I had trying to get a
  toothbrush.
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• C.   How that speaker got through to the class is
  beyond me!
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• D.   Where the road turns to gravel is the place
  to find the good peaches.

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• 2. Your teacher has asked you to write a research
  report about dinosaurs. Which of the following
  shows the correct order of the steps you should
  take?  
•   plan your report choose a topic write your
  report proofread your report revise your report
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• B.  choose a topic plan your report revise
  your report write your report proofread your
  report
• C.   choose a topic plan your report proofread
  your report write your report revise your
  report  
• D.   choose a topic plan your report write your
  report revise your report proofread your report
   

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3. Which would be the BEST closing sentence for
the paragraph below?  

•   Leonard had learned how to play basketball when
  he was in third grade.  
• B.   Basketball is Leonard's favorite sport to
  watch on television.  
• C.   Leonard lives about five blocks away from
  the school.  
• D.   Leonard played basketball with his new
  friends for the rest of the afternoon .

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•   4. You would use a dictionary to find
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•   other words that mean the same as immigrate.  
• B.   information on immigration in the United
  States.  
• C.   the current number of immigrants in Georgia.
  
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• D.   the difference between immigrate and
  emigrate.  

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• 5. The purpose of a transitional sentence in a
  paragraph is to
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•   close the topic.
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• B.   begin the topic.
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• C.   repeat the topic.  
• D.   sequence the topic.  

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6.   Mrs. Garcia's fifth-grade class has been
assigned a report on wild animals that are
primarily found on the continent North America.
Which reference book would be most useful for
researching this topic? A.   an atlas   B.   an
index   C.   a dictionary   D.   an encyclopedia
 
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• 7.   Which sentence does NOT use an apostrophe
  correctly?
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•   It's going to warm up soon.
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• B.   Mr. Brown's pencil is on the desk.  
• C.   Susans' paper was the best in the class.
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• D.   I'm going to stay after class today to
  practice.

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8. What are the subjects of the sentence above?
  A.   his, little   B.   Anthony, sister   C.
  clowns, carousel   D.   enjoyed, especially  
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• 9. Which is the underlined word in the
• sentence above?
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•   verb  
• B.   noun
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• C.   adverb  
• D.   adjective  

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10. What type of sentence is the one below?  

•   declarative  
• B.   interrogative
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• C.   imperative  
• D.   exclamatory  

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• 11. Which part of a book gives the name of the
• book and the name of the publisher?
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•   index  
• B.   glossary
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• C.   title page  
• D.   table of contents  

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• 12. Which is the main idea of the paragraph?
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• A.   Gardens take a lot of time and care.
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• B.   Spring is the best time to be in the garden.
  
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• C.   Working in the garden is almost impossible.
   
• D.   It is too hot to work in the garden in the
  summer time

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• 13.   Which is a sentence fragment?
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•   My sister won the swimming contest.
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• B.   Did you go to the swimming contest?
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• C.   Next Saturday, the swimming contest.
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• D.   Stop calling about the swimming contest.  

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• 14. What change in punctuation is needed to
  correct the sentence above?  
•   Add a comma after Bill.  
• B.   Add a comma after Athens.
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• C.   Replace the comma after school with a
  period.
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• D.   Replace the period after Georgia with a
  question mark.  

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• 15. Which sentence has a compound subject?
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•   The pants were hanging on the clothesline.  
• B.   Maria found that she was in the lunchroom
  all by herself.
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• C.   He played soccer, basketball, and baseball,
  all for the same school.  
• D.   The church and the hospital are right across
  the street from each other .

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• 16.   Which of the sentences below contains an
  adjective?  
• Can Marvin run to the store for me?  
• B.   Will you take the bicycle back to the shed,
  please?  
• C.   My answer was wrong, but Dave had the right
  answer.  
• D.   Marvin worked for hours but did not seem to
  make any progress.  

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