5TH. BIMESTER LEVELS C1 AND C2

5th. Bimester

MIDDLE SCHOOL CONTENTS, LEVELS C1 AND C2

Themes to study:

1. Subject-Verb agreement

2. Capitalization

3. Punctuation

Study Guide:

Instructions: Print this page. Look at the first column and write the correct answer for each question in the empty column.

Objectives: You will be able to identify and use verbs correctly and have a proper capitalization and punctuation when writing.

Chapter 8: Subject-Verb Agreement	Answers
1. What does number refer to in grammar?
2. What’s the difference between singular and plural subjects?
3. What is agreement?
4. How do you distinguish the number in the verb phrase?
5. How do you distinguish the number when using negatives?
6. What is a compound subject?
7. What form of the verb you should use when the subjects are joined by the conjunction and?
8. What form of the verb you should use when the subjects are joined by the conjunctions or / nor?
9. When do errors in subject-verb agreement occur frequently?
10. In what part of the sentence you will never find the subject?
11. What do you have to do with the words that are between the subject and the verb to distinguish the correct number?
12. What are the indefinite pronouns?
13. Write 5 singular indefinite pronouns.
14. Write 3 plural indefinite pronouns.
15. write 3 indefinite pronouns that can be either singular or plural.
16. How can you identify whether an indefinite pronoun is singular or plural?
17. What are the occasions in which the subject takes an unusual position in the sentence?
18. From page 179 in the Language Network Book, rewrite the letter correcting all the subject-verb agreement errors.
Chapter 8: Capitalization
1. Always capitalize proper names and initials. Write 5 examples.
2. Always capitalize personal titles and abbreviations used before names or in direct speaking. Write 5 examples.
3. Capitalize titles of heads of state, royalty, or nobility when they’re followed by the person’s name. 4. Write 5 examples.
5. When you do not capitalize titles?
6. Capitalize words indicating family relationship when they are used before the names. Write 5 examples.
7. Capitalize the names of religions, sacred days, sacred writings and deities. Write 5 examples.
8. When you do not capitalize the words god and goddess?
9. What is the pronoun you always have to capitalize? 10. Always capitalize the names of nationalities, languages, races, ethnic groups and the adjectives formed from these names. Write 5 examples.
11. When you do not capitalize the first word of a quotation?
12. Capitalize the first word of each entry in an outline and the letters that introduce major subsections. Write one example.
13. Write the title of 3 books correctly.
14. Write the title of 3 stories correctly.
15. Write the title of 3 poems correctly.
16. Write the title of 3 magazines and newspapers correctly.
17. Write the title of 3 movies correctly.
18. Write the title of 3 television shows correctly.
19. Write the title of 3 videogames correctly.
20. Write the name of 3 divisions of the world correctly.
21. Write the name of 3 continents correctly.
22. Write the name of 3 bodies of water correctly.
23. Write the name of 3 islands correctly.
24. Write the name of 3 mountains correctly.
25. Write the name of 3 regions correctly.
26. Write the name of 3 nations correctly.
27. Write the name of 3 states correctly.
28. Write the name of 3 cities correctly.
29. Write the name of 3 roads and streets correctly.
30. Write the name of 3 planets correctly.
31. Write the name of 3 buildings, bridges or monuments correctly.
32. Write the name of 3 airplanes, trains, ships, cars or spacecrafts correctly.
33. Write the name of 3 organizations, institutions, stores, or companies correctly.
34. When you do not capitalize the words school, company, church, college, and hospital?
35. Write the name of 3 historical events, periods or documents correctly.
36. Write the two time abbreviations correctly.
37. Write the two calendar abbreviations correctly.
38. Write the name of 5 months, days, or holidays correctly.
39. Write the name of 3 special events, awards or brand names correctly.
40. What is the word after a brand name or product that we do not capitalize?