Grade 5 English Language Arts · Grammar and Usage
Build Grade 5 English Language Arts skills with five 10-question practice tests on agreement, pronouns, parts of speech, verb usage, sentence structure, punctuation, and word choice.
These Grade 5 English Language Arts practice tests help students write and edit clear sentences. Students practice subject-verb agreement, pronouns and antecedents, parts of speech, conjunctions, sentence completeness, verb tense, capitalization, punctuation, commonly confused words, and precise word choice.
Find the subject before choosing a verb, check what each pronoun refers to, and read the entire sentence aloud. When editing, look for a complete thought, consistent tense, correct capitalization, and punctuation that makes the meaning clear.
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A 10-question Grade 5 English Language Arts practice test on subject-verb agreement, pronouns, parts of speech, verb usage, sentence structure, capitalization, punctuation, and commonly confused words.
Read each sentence carefully, identify the grammar feature being tested, and choose the form that makes the sentence clear and correct.
Please select an answer first.
Correct answer: A
The correct answer is is.
The subject is basket, which is singular, so the singular verb is fits.
Please select an answer first.
Correct answer: B
The correct answer is bark.
Dogs is plural, so the present-tense verb must be the plural form bark.
Please select an answer first.
Correct answer: C
The correct answer is has.
Each is singular, so it takes the singular verb has.
Please select an answer first.
Correct answer: D
The correct answer is is.
Team is treated as one group here, so the singular verb is agrees with it.
Please select an answer first.
Correct answer: A
The correct answer is hangs.
The subject is list, not chores. List is singular, so hangs is correct.
Please select an answer first.
Correct answer: B
The correct answer is are.
With neither...nor, the verb agrees with the nearer subject, students, which is plural.
Please select an answer first.
Correct answer: C
The correct answer is is.
The subject is box, which is singular; the phrase of crayons does not change the subject.
Please select an answer first.
Correct answer: D
The correct answer is are.
The real subject is three books, which is plural, so are is correct.
Please select an answer first.
Correct answer: A
The correct answer is are.
My friends and I is a plural subject, so the verb are agrees with it.
Please select an answer first.
Correct answer: B
The correct answer is flies.
Flock is a singular group noun in this sentence, so flies is correct.
Find the subject first, decide whether it is singular or plural, and choose the verb form that matches it.
Its shows possession, while it is is written as the contraction it is. Replace the word with it is to test whether the contraction fits.
The page includes five mini tests with 10 questions each, for 50 Grade 5 Grammar and Usage questions in total.
