7th Grade CRCT Practice Test

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7th Grade CRCT Practice Test

• Grammar Mechanics

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1. A secreatary is an employee who handles
business correspondence.

• Which of the underlined words in the sentence is
  misspelled?
• A. secreatary
• B. employee
• C. business
• D. correspondence

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2. The boy received a watch on the occasion of
his gratuation from college.

• Which of the underlined words in the sentence
  above is misspelled?
• A. received
• B. occasion
• C. gratuation
• D. college

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3. Which sentence contains the correct usage?

• A. Lie the silverware on the table.
• B. Can you lay your paper on the desk?
• C. My puppy likes to lay down in the den.
• D. Joe will lie his head down and rest quietly

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4. In which sentence is an apostrophe used
incorrectly?

• A. The hiking club's rules are for safety.
• B. The boy's want to go for a long hike.
• C. One of the hiker's backpacks held food.
• D. Jon needed the two hikers' help on the
  trail.

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5. My favorite grandmother lives in Sacramento,
California, so I don't see her very often.

• What part of speech is the underlined word in the
  sentence above?
• A. adverb
• B. adjective
• C. preposition
• D. conjunction

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6. Last summer, my cousin and i went camping at
the state park near our house.

• Which word in this sentence should be
  capitalized?
• A. i
• B. park
• C. state
• D. summer

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7. There are many trioes in the music industry
that are extremely popular now.

• Which underlined word in the sentence is
  misspelled?
• A. there
• B. trioes
• C. industry
• D. extremely

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8. Which words best fill in the blanks in the
sentence below?

• You should have (1) _________ the touching (2)
  _________ at the family reunion.
• A. seen, seen
• B. seen, scene
• C. scene, seen
• D. scene, scene

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9. Nolan likes many sports basketball,
baseball, tennis, swimming, football, and soccer

• Which punctuation mark needs to be added to the
  sentence?
• A. a colon after and
• B. a colon after sports
• C. a comma after sports
• D. a comma after Nolan

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10. He voiced his opinions loudly and often.

• Which part of speech is the underlined word in
  the sentence?
• A. verb
• B. noun
• C. adverb
• D. adjective

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11. An astronot has to study mathematics,
technology and science.

• Which of the underlined words is misspelled?
• A. astronot
• B. mathematics
• C. technology
• D. science

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12. The two sisters were alike in many ways
______ both liked to go to the same
extracurricular activities at school.

• Which word correctly completes this sentence?
  
• A. they
• B. their
• C. them
• D. theirs

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13. The horse, a real beauty, came trotting
around the track.

• Which of the underlined words in this sentence is
  a preposition?
• A. a
• B. came
• C. trotting
• D. around

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14. The first coarse of the meal was soup,
followed by a salad.

• Which underlined word is used incorrectly in this
  sentence?
• A. soup
• B. meal
• C. salad
• D. coarse

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15. This sunset is breathtaking!

• In the sentence above, what part of speech is the
  underlined word?
• A. adverb
• B. pronoun
• C. adjective
• D. interjection

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16. She cared for the stray animal as if it
were her own.

• In the sentence, what is the form of the
  underlined verb?
• A. infinitive
• B. past tense
• C. past participle
• D. present participle

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17. All of the children have gone home.

• Which part of speech is the underlined word in
  the sentence?
• A. noun
• B. adverb
• C. adjective
• D. preposition

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18. Somebody ought to throw a stick for my dog,
Arco, to pick up and carry.

• The type of pronoun underlined in the sentence is
  
• A. personal.
• B. indefinite.
• C. interrogative.
• D. demonstrative.

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19. What punctuation mark belongs in the
sentence below?

• Our mom sent us shopping with this list apples,
  peas, milk, and bread.
• A. this list apples, peas
• B. this list apples, peas
• C. this list "apples
• D. this list. apples

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20. Sandalee had drove from Santa Ana to Austin
in just over ten hours. She went straight to bed
and slept until noon.

• How should the sentences above be revised?
• A. Change drove to driven.
• B. Change slept to sleep.
• C. Change went to go.
• D. Change had to did.

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• 7th Grade Grammar Mechanics
• (Answer Key)
• 1. secreatary
• 2. gratuation
• 3. Can you lay your paper on the desk?
• 4. The boy's want to go for a long hike.
• 5. preposition
• 6. i
• 7. trioes
• 8. seen, scene
• 9. a colon after sports
• 10. noun
• 11. astronot
• 12. they
• 13. around
• 14. coarse
• 15. adjective
• 16. past tense