Grade 9 · English
Subject-verb agreement, commas, and modifiers. Written in American English for students, parents, and teachers in the United States.
Open a card to see the answer. These are original practice items for US elementary students — not a state test copy.
Answer: agree in number
The team is / the players are.
Answer: sits too far from the word it describes
“Running to class, the bell rang” is tangled.
Answer: joining two independent clauses
The FANBOYS rule.
Answer: the object
Whom did you call?
Answer: it is
The dog lost its collar.
Answer: keep the same grammatical form
to run, to jump, to swim.
Answer: verb meaning to influence
The news affected her.
Answer: jams two sentences without correct punctuation
Fix with a period or conjunction.
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