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Conventions Review 4: Fourth Grade
Page numbers of the Warriner’s pages that explain the concepts are in the parentheses after each
section heading. Please complete all the following exercises by Friday. You will be given points for
completion, not accuracy. Thank you.
New terms and topics in this week’s review:
 compound sentences
 appositives
 irregular verbs, adverbs,
prepositions, conjunctions
 parentheses
 commas with quotes
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apostrophes for possession
punctuating titles of short and
long works
capitalization of works and
organizations, and in quotes
spelling rules for suffixes
Sentence Structure
A. In each compound sentence below, underline the simple subjects, double underline the simple
predicates (verbs), and circle the way they are joined (punctuation and/or other words) (142-143).
1. The director of a theater-in-the-round visited our class, and we listened to his stories for
almost an hour.
2. According to him, the workers in charge of props are usually alert and careful; however, they
still make mistakes sometimes.
3. In one production of Romeo and Juliet, the character Juliet prepared to kill herself with a
dagger, but no dagger was on the stage.
4. During another mystery drama, a spectator became too involved in the play; he leaped up on
stage and tackled the villain.
B. Combine each sentence pair as indicated (96-99,102-103, 112-113) into one smoother sentence.
1. In the 100-meter hurdles, Ruth Ann Garcia appears to be leading. She is known for her lastminute bursts of energy. (Use a participial phrase after “Garcia.”) __________________
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2. Hubert “Geese” Ausbie was well known during his career. He had a sunny smile and was
known for his athletic skill, too. (Use a prepositional phrase starting with “for.”) _______
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3. Mike’s sister Tanya shouts “Beans!” whenever something goes wrong. Tanya is weird. (Use
an adjective.) ____________________________________________________________
4. Louis Armstrong became famous as a solo trumpet player. He was famous on an
international level. (Use an adverb.) __________________________________________
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5. Tacos are served here. They are one of the most popular Mexican dishes. (Use an
appositive.) _____________________________________________________________
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Grammar
A. Write in the past tense and past participle of each irregular verb below (188-189). EXAMPLE:
ring – rang [past] – [have] rung.
1. be
4. know
7. steal
2. write
5. choose
8. sing
3. do
6. eat
9. come
based on Warriner’s Handbook, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 2010
B. In each sentence, box the adverbs. Draw a connecting line between the adverb and the verb,
adjective, or other adverb it modifies (61-65). There may be more than one adverb per sentence.
1. I have been a fan of mystery stories since I was quite young.
2. Some stories are incredibly exciting from start to finish.
3. Others build suspense very slowly.
4. If I like a story, I almost never put it down until I finish it.
C. Circle the prepositions in each of the following sentences (66-67). They may be more than one
word, and there may be more than preposition in each sentence.
1. According to legend, Mars, the god of war in Roman mythology, was the father of the twin
brothers Romulus and Remus.
2. An evil ruler had them placed in a basket and cast into the Tiber River.
3. Fortunately, they safely drifted to the bank of the river.
D. List the seven coordinate conjunctions, starting with the letters below. (HINT: These are the
words you use to connect two simple sentences into a compound sentence.)
1. B
5. F
2. O
6. A
3. Y
7. N
4. S
Punctuation
A. Insert parentheses (360-361) where they are needed in the following sentences. Pay special
attention to whether the end parenthesis comes before or after other punctuation.
1. The old fort it was used during the Civil War has been rebuilt and is open to the public.
2. The American writer Langston Hughes 1902 – 1967 is best known for his poetry.
3. Alligators use their feet and tails to dig water holes also called “gator holes” in marshy fields.
4. On the Sabbath my family eats braided bread called challah pronounced khä’luh.
B. Add commas (345) to the following quotations with caret marks (^) where needed. Pay special
attention to the order of punctuation.
1. Annie asked “Gordon, do you ever think about pencils?”
2. “I’m always wondering where I lost my pencils” Gordon replied.
3. “Well” said Annie “let me tell you some of the things I learned about pencils.”
C. Write a phrase to match the noun and owner as indicated. Put apostrophes in the right place
(351-353). EXAMPLE: pages of the book = book’s pages; owner of the puppies = puppies’ owner
1. tail of the donkey
3. trunks of the elephants
2. wheel of the mouse
4. curriculum of the schools
D. When you are typing, titles of long works (movies, books, plays, magazines, TV shows) should
be typed in __________. When you are writing by hand, these titles should be __________. Only
with shorter works (short stories, poems, articles, songs, episodes of a TV show) should you use
__________.
Capitalization
A. Correct all the capitalization errors in the following groups of words.
1. My older brother subscribes to field and stream.
2. Dale Evans and Roy Rogers sang the song “Happy trails to you” at the end of their
television programs.
3. I buy a copy of the post each Sunday.
4. The mona lisa is one of the most famous paintings at the Louvre in Paris.
5. Our school had a much more successful carnival than Lakeside junior high school had.
6. “Run! Run!” cried the boys. “a tornado is headed this way!”
Spelling
A. Spell the word indicated with the given suffix. You may or may not change the root word (373374).
1. natural + ly
4. dry + ness
7. notice + able
2. adore + able
5. tease + ing
8. confine + ment
3. sure + ly
6. lucky + ly
9. advantage + ous