FREE ParaPro Writing Questions and Answers
Which adjective belongs in the following sentence?
Clinton threw the red ball to Mellisa, who excitedly caught it and threw it.
The right response is "red". A noun is described or modified by an adjective.
In which of the following statements is a preposition missing?
Explanation:
A preposition is a word that describes how a verb and an object are related.
Find the subject of the next sentence.
"The more Alic thought about his guitar, the more he realized how much it had become a part of him."
Explanation:
The person or thing that the sentence is about; the person or thing that is performing or in a state of being in the sentence, is the subject of the
sentence. Alic is the one who is contemplating his guitar in the sentence.
The pupils' research paper is to be about Aristotle, according to the teacher. What novels from the list below would you advise the student to read?
Aristotle was a well-known Ancient Greek philosopher, thus the response "The Origins of Philosphy" is the right one.
Read the following statement, and then choose the word that most appropriately fills in the blank grammatically.
If you don’t clean up this room, ______ not going to be allowed to go to the dance.
Since the sentence requires the contraction of "you're," which signifies "you are," the right response is "your're."
Which of the following text's underlined passages is false?
What the monkey don't realize, though, was that the banana was just bait to lure him to the back of his cage.
Explanation:
The verb form of ""do not"" that would be used with a plural noun is ""don't"". Given that there is only one monkey, the proper word to use is "doesn't."
Which of the following text's underlined passages is false?
How many times do I have to tell you. Do not leave the room while the stove is still on!
Explanation:
There should be a question mark at the end of the first sentence rather than a period because it is a question.
Students were instructed to prepare an essay on the periodic table by their teacher. The next phrase was written by a student in their essay.
"The periodic table was a chart that shows people all of the periodic elements, along with some information about each one."
Which section requires revision?
Because the verb in this sentence is written in the incorrect tense, the response "periodic table was" is appropriate. The line will make better sense if "was" is changed to "is".
Students were instructed by the teacher to write a letter to their congressman requesting that legislation be modified. What a student wrote is as follows:
Hey Congressman McDonald,
What’s up? I was hoping you could vote to change the gun laws. I think guns are bad and we need more gun control. Please vote for more gun control.
Thanks, Sherlock
The instructor requests that the student expand on their letter. Which of the following is the ideal question to elicit from the students as they continue to compose and edit their letters?
It is the only query that will prompt a pupil to expand on their present subject.
Which sentence in the text below is incorrect?
Sofia, wants to go to the movies with Ebony, who really wants to see the new horror movie.
The reader shouldn't stop between the sentence's subject and verb, thus the right response is "," which makes sense.
Which of the following text's underlined passages is false?
The Boston Red Sox won the World Series in 2004 after 83 years without a titel.
Explanation:
In the statement, the word ""title"" is spelled incorrectly.
Which of the following is a correctly spelled word?
Explanation:
The words "Desparate," "Consolt," and "Grane" should all be spelled "Desperate," "Consult," and "Grain," respectively. The sole correctly spelt word is "betray."
Students were instructed to produce an argumentative essay on whether a democracy or a monarchy is a superior system of government. Which of the following is the best way to begin a phrase for this task?
The proper response is "A democracy is a better form of government because.." since it is the only opening statement that immediately moves the student into a persuasive attitude.
Which of the following text's underlined passages is false?
Whenever it rains a lot outside, Granny theresa complains that her leg ache.
Because "leg" is a singular noun and requires a singular verb, "ache" is the appropriate response.
Which of the following underlined passages includes a mistake?
Shenny let the woman behind her go first at the checkout counter because she had less items in her cart than Shenny.
Explanation:
When referring to a number of objects, the correct word to use is "fewer," not "less." When referring to a quantity of one item, the correct phrase to
use is "less."
Find the subject of the next sentence.
The red bike rolled down the hill to Marko’s house with no one riding on top of it.
The bike is the principal actor in the sentence and is therefore the topic of the phrase, making "Bike" the appropriate response.
