Download ELA Review Sheet for Final Exam - June 2015

ELA Outline for Final Exam
1. ELA Final Exam Part I: Essay – Monday, June 1, 2015
2. ELA Final Exam Part II: Grammar, Punctuation, Vocabulary – Friday, June 12, 2015
Types of Sentences: (Grammar Workbook, pages 102-103)
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Interrogative: asks a question and ends with a question mark.
Declarative: makes a statement and ends with a period.
Imperative: gives a command or makes a request and ends with a period.
Exclamatory: expresses a strong emotion and ends with an exclamation mark
Direct Object: a direct object is a noun or a pronoun in the predicate that receives the action of the
verb. It answers the question what? Or whom? after an action verb. (Grammar Workbook, page 7)
Mike found a book about astronomers. (What did Mike find?)
Indirect Object: an indirect object answers the question to what? for what? to whom? or for
whom? after an action verb. (Grammar Workbook, page 8)
Jen gave Maria the telescope. (To whom did Jen give the telescope?)
Verb: shows action or state of being. It tells what the subject of the sentence does or did.
Verb phrase: two or more verbs used together as a unit. A verb phrase contains the main verb
and an auxiliary, or helping, verb.
(ELA Grammar Workbook, pages 55-56)
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The Brown family traveled to San Francisco. (verb)
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Many cities have passed strict laws on texting and driving. (verb phrase)
Main Verbs and Helping Verbs: a verb phrase consists of a helping verb and a main verb.
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The main verb shows what the subject does or is.
The helping verb helps the main verb show an action. By itself, a helping verb cannot
show action.
We must protect the earth.
Helping verb
Main verb
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Linking Verbs: a linking verb is a verb that links the subject to a noun or an adjective in the
predicate. (Grammar Workbook, page 63)
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She is a student. (A predicate noun names or identifies the subject.)
Marie was happy. (A predicate adjective describes the subject.)
Appositives: An appositive is a word or group of words that identifies or tells more about the
noun it follows. Commas are used to set off most appositives from the rest of the sentence.
(Grammar Workbook, page 13)
John, my best friend, has a new video game.
Complex Sentence: a complex sentence contains an independent clause and one or more
dependent clauses. (Grammar Workbook, page 118)
I found an old license plate while I was fishing.
An independent clause can stand alone as a sentence.
I found an old license plate.
A dependent clause cannot stand alone as a sentence. It begins with a conjunction such as
after, although, as, as if, as though, because, before, if, since, though, until, unless,
where, wherever, whenever, while.
while I was fishing
A preposition relates a noun or pronoun to another word in a sentence. (Grammar Workbook,
pages 109-110)
We always have a great time at the circus.
A prepositional phrase contains a preposition, the object of the preposition, and modifiers of the
object.
Noun: names a person, place, thing, or idea. (Grammar Workbook, page 1)
Adjective: describe nouns (Grammar Workbook, page 39)
Adverb: describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. (Grammar Work, page 85)
Interjection: a word that expresses a strong or sudden emotion; for example: Wow! Awesome!
Excellent! Hey! (Grammar Workbook, page 125)
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Vocabulary Words: Units 11, 12, and 13
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
dawdle
immobile
liberated
unerring
meteoric
sabotage
supplement
fatality
crotchety
rotund
resourceful
inevitable
implement
atrocity
innovation
sluggish
foiled
ingrained
strapping
trait
affluence
logical
doled
prevail
abducted
perishable
giddy
deluded
skimp
stealthy
nimble
rendezvous
bumbling
amble
ambiguous
cringe
saunter
deluge
dogged
stealthy
intimidate
refurbish
parody
scant
discretion
rummage
earmark
verge
dumbfounded titanic
impact
distort
avenge
rend
subordinate
replenish
compact
sleuth
Commonly Misspelled Words:
achieve
a lot
believe
calendar
decide
definite
different
doesn’t
familiar
formulate
friend
grammar
necessary
occurred
opportunity
optimist
receive
separate
similar
their
Cinquain Poetry: the structure of a traditional cinquain poem
1. Cinquains are five lines long.
2. They have 2 syllables in the first line, 4 in the second, 6 in the third, 8 in the fourth line, and
just 2 in the last line.
3. Cinquains do not need to rhyme, but you can include rhymes if you want to.
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