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I. Compound nouns
Three of the words below go together with 'head' to make a new word. Which
word does not make a new word?
a) ache
b) line
c) master
d) man
2. Three of the words below go together with 'news' to make a new word. Which
word does not make a new word?
a) reader
b) magazine
c) paper
d) flash
3. Three of the words below go together with 'birth' to make a new word. Which
word does not make a new word?
a) day
b) mark
c) control
d) baby
4. Three of the words below go together with 'air' to make a new word. Which
word does not make a new word?
a) conditioning
b) mail
c) port
d) pilot
5. Three of the words below go together with ' birth' to make a new word. Which
word does not make a new word?
a) shop
b) worm
c) maker
d) library
6. Three of the words below go together with 'police' to make a new word. Which
word does not make a new word?
a) person
b) woman
c) dog
d) force
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II. Prepositions
2. For each question, choose the single best answer.
1. My best friend lives ______ Boretz Road.
a. in
b.on
c.at
2. I'll be ready to leave ____ about twenty minutes.
a. in
b. on
c. at
3. Since he met his new lfriend, Juan never seems to be ______ home.
a. on
b. in
c. at
4. The child responded to his mother's demands ______ throwing a tantrum.
a. with
b. by
c. from
5. I think she spent the entire afternoon ______ the phone.
a. on
b. in
c. at
6. I will wait ______ 6:30, but then I'm going home.
a. from
b. at
c. until
7. The police caught the thief _____ the corner of Cascade and Plum Streets.
a. in
b. at
c. from
8. My fingers were injured so my sister had to write the note _____ me.
a. for
b. with
c. to
9. I am not interested _____ buying a new car now.
a. to
b. for
c. in
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III. Punctuation
Fill in the blanks with the right punctuation mark.
My father used to quote his favorite line from Shakespeare
to thine own self be true."
Pete
and Tony
1997
moved to Boston
it makes you
000.
Braxton moved to Dallas
Texas.
the corner
theater
the locally owned bookstore -- have gone the way of the cowboy
vaudeville theatre.
I tell you
Dr. Turveydrop
American Pastoral
Connecticut
Ronald Pepin
Peter Wursthorn
from Warwick
Rhode Island
Center at Yale University.
The bumpy
sinuous road
Professor of English
Professor of Mathematics
the radio
violently
upset stomach.
obnoxious music on
migraine headache
and
shocking
and a
sleep.
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IV. Word Formation
Fill in the following prefixes into the right place to form negatives.
a/ a/ dis/ dis/ dis/ il/ il/ im/ in/ ir/ un
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material to me - it has an
perfect world.
clear.
political and does not identify with
direct.
symmetric
practical.
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