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Grammar and Language Workbook, Grade 12
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Mechanics
Cumulative Review: Units 1–12
 Exercise 1
Underline the word in parentheses that best completes each sentence.
The speaker started out (bad, badly).
1. I finished my homework (already, all ready).
2. This dessert tastes (all together, altogether) too sweet for my teeth!
3. I (can’t hardly, can hardly) stand it when people scratch a blackboard with their fingernails.
4. When was this warning (hanged, hung) on the wall?
5. Don’t (loose, lose) your hall pass or the guard will stop you.
6. We won’t be there for (a while, awhile), so go ahead and eat without us.
7. Alice (doesn’t, don’t) live here anymore.
8. Well, the refrigerator is practically empty, so I guess someone (must of, must have) been
really hungry!
9. Meet me for basketball practice (in, into) the gym.
10. Standing up here so high, it’s hard to believe that a major river (lays, lies) far below.
11. (Besides, Beside) your cello lessons, what else do you do after school?
12. I don’t know if I (can, may) make it up that cliff.
13. Well, this is certainly (a, an) inconvenience, Stanley!
14. The sporting event will take place (irregardless, regardless) of the weather.
15. Your twin sister, Anastasia, acts very (different than, different from) you, Alice.
16. Even from the air, we could see that the damage from the earthquake looked (bad, badly).