ELA Unit 1 G7

Assessment Practice

Writing & Grammar

DIRECTIONS Read this passage and answer the questions that follow.

(1) Nature can do some amazing things, sometimes, people even get to watch.
(2) In 1995, a new island formed as part of the Tonga Islands. (3) An active
volcano erupted at Metis Shoal this eruption caused a heavy flow of lava.
(4) As the volcanos lava bubbled up, it built a new island. (5) Fortunately,
someone used their video camera to record this event. (6) According to many
scientists accounts, Metis Shoal had erupted before with similar results.
(7) The volcano produced new islands when they erupted in 1968 and 1979.

1. Choose the correct way to rewrite sentence 3. Choose the correct way to write the
1 so that it is no longer a run-on sentence. possessive form of the underlined word
in sentence 4.
A Nature can do some amazing things,
sometimes people. Even get to watch. A volcano’s’ C volcano’s

B Nature can do some amazing things B volcanos’ D volcanos’s
sometimes people even get to watch.
4. To maintain pronoun-antecedent agreement
C Nature can do some amazing things in sentence 5, change “their” to
sometimes, people; even get to watch.
A her C its
D Nature can do some amazing things;
sometimes, people even get to watch. B they D theirs

2. Choose the correct way to rewrite sentence 5. Choose the correct way to write the
3 so that it is no longer a run-on sentence. possessive form of the underlined word
in sentence 6.
A An active volcano erupted at Metis
Shoal, and this eruption caused a A scientists’s C scientist’s
heavy flow of lava.
B scientists’ D scientist’s’
B An active volcano erupted at Metis
Shoal this eruption. Caused a heavy 6. To maintain pronoun-antecedent agreement
flow of lava. in sentence 7, change “they” to

C An active volcano erupted but at Metis A he C theirs
Shoal this eruption caused a heavy
flow of lava. B them D it

D An active volcano; erupted at Metis STOP
Shoal this eruption caused a heavy
flow of lava.

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