The Conventions of English PRACTICE ONE

Match it! Select the correct answer from the pull down...Good luck!

What changes, if any, need to be made to the following sentence? Ms. Reece asked the class to go over their.

Grammar and Usage, how words are used in a language to communicate effectively, are important in order to get an author’s point across.

Spelling, the correct way to arrange letters in a word, is not important once you get out of high school.

What type of word is their/there?

A homonym, the root word of longer words, can be very confusing if one doesn’t know the meaning of how the word is spelled.

_____________________________ falls under the rules of proper punctuation, and has five times it needs to be used, usually involving the connection of words.

Clauses are a group of words that have a _____________ and a ___________.

Conventions are widely used or accepted practices in any instance, for example holding the door open for an elderly person, or saying thank you and please.