Grammar Practice Assignment

This assignment is designed to help you practice key grammar skills including tense agreement, subject-verb agreement, and the use of irregular verbs. Additionally, you will work on identifying and correcting run-on sentences, comma splices, and sentence fragments. Pay close attention to the instructions for each section and answer the questions to the best of your ability.

This section focuses on tense agreement. Choose the correct verb form to complete each sentence.

She ____ to the store every Saturday.

Yesterday, they ____ a movie at the theater.

By the time we arrived, they ____ dinner.

Next year, she ____ to college.

I ____ my homework before dinner every day.

This section focuses on subject-verb agreement. Choose the correct verb form to complete each sentence.

The team ____ playing well this season.

Neither the teacher nor the students ____ happy with the results.

Each of the players ____ a chance to win.

The number of participants ____ increasing every year.

Either the cat or the dogs ____ making noise.

This section focuses on irregular verbs. Choose the correct past tense form of the verb in parentheses.

Yesterday, I ____ (go) to the park.

She ____ (see) the movie last week.

They ____ (take) the test yesterday.

He ____ (break) the window accidentally.

We ____ (choose) the best option.

This section focuses on identifying run-on sentences, comma splices, and sentence fragments. Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow.

Run-On Sentence
A run-on sentence occurs when two or more independent clauses (complete thoughts) are joined together without proper punctuation or conjunctions. For example:
Incorrect: I love to read I don’t have much time.
Correct: I love to read, but I don’t have much time.

Comma Splice
A comma splice happens when two independent clauses are joined together with just a comma, which is incorrect. For example:
Incorrect: I enjoy hiking, I go every weekend.
Correct: I enjoy hiking and I go every weekend.

Sentence Fragment
A sentence fragment is a group of words that does not express a complete thought. It may be missing a subject, a verb, or both. For example:

Fragment: Although I love to read.
Complete Sentence: Although I love to read, I don’t have much time.

Identify and rewrite the run-on sentence in the excerpt.

Identify and rewrite the comma splice in the excerpt.

Identify and rewrite the sentence fragment in the excerpt.

This section focuses on identifying run-on sentences, comma splices, and sentence fragments. Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow.

Run-On Sentence
A run-on sentence occurs when two or more independent clauses (complete thoughts) are joined together without proper punctuation or conjunctions. For example:

Incorrect: I love to read I don’t have much time.
Correct: I love to read, but I don’t have much time.

Comma Splice
A comma splice happens when two independent clauses are joined together with just a comma, which is incorrect. For example:

Incorrect: I enjoy hiking, I go every weekend.
Correct: I enjoy hiking; I go every weekend.

Sentence Fragment
A sentence fragment is a group of words that does not express a complete thought. It may be missing a subject, a verb, or both. For example:

Fragment: Although I love to read.
Complete Sentence: Although I love to read, I don’t have much time.

Identify and rewrite the run-on sentence.

Identify and rewrite the comma splice.

Identify and rewrite the sentence fragment.