Third Grade Language Test #8

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Across
  1. 2. often used at the end of every declarative and most imperative sentences; use after initials of names; after abbreviated titles of respect; after abbreviations of days and months
  2. 3. subject stays the same; verb must be singular or plural to match the subject
  3. 4. helps the main verb express an action or a state of being; am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been, has, have, had, do, does, did, could, would, should, can, could, might, may, shall, will, must
  4. 6. verb tense used to describe what has happened in the past, usually add -d or -ed to the verb
  5. 9. used with a conjunction word to correct a run-on sentence; use after yes or no at the beginning of a sentence; use before and after the name of the person you are speaking to in a sentence, use only one if the name comes at the beginning or end of the sentence; use to separate words or groups of words in a series, a series is three or more similar words or groups of words written one after another; use to separate the name of a town or a city from the name of a state, place after the state, too, unless it comes at the end of a sentence; use to separate parts of a date
  6. 10. the first word of every sentence; proper nouns; days of the week and the month of the year; holidays and special days; the names referring to God and the Bible; names, titles of respects, initials, and the word I; the first word, last word and every important word in the titles of books, stories, poems, and songs
Down
  1. 1. verb tense used to express action that will take place in the future, usually has the word will before the verb
  2. 2. verb tense used to describe situations that exist in the present time
  3. 5. tells what the subject is or does
  4. 7. who or what the sentence is about
  5. 8. around titles of short stories, poems, songs, chapters, and magazine or newspaper articles; around direct quotations; the end punctuation goes inside the quotation makes in a direct quote