The document contains a collection of short passages on various topics ranging from home technologies and renewable energy to grammar, punctuation and language usage. There is no clear overall theme or narrative to the document.

2. Practice:
Homes in the future will have many high-tech features
Check your notebook
Don’t worry

3. Practice:
E L Konigsburg wrote From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E
Frankweiler.
NASA scientists believe that we’ll get more of our energy from
renewable sources, such as the sun, the wind, ocean water, etc

4. Practice:
For $2 99 on Tuesdays, I can rent three videos. But is it a bargain
to spend 33 3 percent of my allowance on videos that I won’t have
time to watch anyway?

5. Practice:
Isn’t it Mr. B.’s birthday next week
Let’s throw a party for Mr. B.’s birthday (May 5 ) this year.

6. Practice:
Surprise! You’ve won the million-dollar sweepstakes!
Yeah!

7. Practice:
The world s population will double by the year 2050. At least that
is Dr. Theodore s theory.
My five bosses office is on the fifth floor.
That children s book is great.

8. Practice:
Do not = don t
She would = she d
It is = it s
Will not = won t

9. Practice:
I am part of the 71 graduating class.
My granddaughter says g bye instead of goodbye.

10. Practice:
Your 9s look like 7s and your as look like os.
Change all the %s in your report to percent.

11. Practice:
When Tolstoy started upon his novel the historical incidents
were to serve merely as a background. W. Somerset Maugham
You can go if you want, but
It is easy to say that Rousseau was a misfit Clifton Fadiman

12. Practice:
My chores include walking the dog cleaning my room and washing
the dishes.
Spanish French and German are the languages most often taught
in schools today.

13. Practice:
The elephant is a large powerful animal.
Many intelligent well-educated scientists think there is life in
space.

14. Practice:
There are about 3000 students enrolled at South.
August 28 1963 is my birthday.
I live in Deer Park Texas.

15. Practice:
Oh boy I like school.
First mix the egg with the butter.
Alondra please close the door.

16. Practice:
At the end of the year students must take a final exam.
After school I went to the store.

17. Practice:
Frightened by a big dog the child began to cry.
Stopping for the ambulance the car caused an accident.

18. Wabu wabu wasits (Where, although, because, unless, when,
after, before, until, while, as, since, if, though, so that)
Practice:
Before Ronald began his report he went to the library to do
research.
Although it was late Jenniffer kept reading her book.

19. Practice:
Austin which is the capital of Texas is two hours from Houston by
car.

20. Practice:
Ms. Kato a teacher has a red car.
Seattle the largest city in Washington borders the Pacific Ocean.

21. Practice:
Cristopher said “Let’s go to my favorite restaurant to eat pizza
after the game.”
“Let’s go to my favorite restaurant to eat pizza after the game “
Cristopher said.
“After the game “Cristopher said “let’s go to my favorite
restaurant to eat pizza.”

22. Fanboys (,for ,and ,nor ,but ,or ,yet ,so)
Practice:
I didn’t make the team this year but I plan to try out again next
year.
Some people have dogs as a pet and other people have cats as a
pet.
Be careful:
Magda and Saret are friends.
Norma walked around the track and started sweating.

23. Practice:
Dear Yazmin
Will you help me study English tonight?
Your friend
Jenniffer

24. Practice:
I didn’t make the team this year I plan to try out again next year.
Some people have dogs as a pet other people have cats as a pet.
Be careful:
Magda and Saret are friends.
Norma walked around the track and started sweating.

25. accordingly, furthermore, moreover, similarly, also, hence,
namely, still, anyway, however, nevertheless, then, besides,
incidentally, next, thereafter, certainly, indeed, nonetheless,
therefore, consequently, instead, now, thus, finally, likewise,
otherwise, undoubtedly, further, meanwhile.
Practice:
The king lost the first battle however, he was ready for the fight
the next day.

26. Practice:
Which commas need to be replaced with a semicolon?
I visited Ephesus, Turkey, Venice, Italy, Marseilles, France, Athens,
Greece, and Barcelona, Spain.

27. Practice:
Dear Sir
Please send me a copy of The Hunger Games.
Thank you,
Ngan

28. Practice:
Passengers may order any of the following beverages coffee, tea,
juice, or milk.
You can save the environment buy eggs in paper cartons, ask for
paper food containers at restaurants, and use paper bags instead
of plastic sacks.

29. Practice:
School starts at 8 45 AM.

30. Practice:
Cristopher exclaimed, Let’s go to my favorite restaurant to eat pizza
after the game!
Let’s go to my favorite restaurant to eat pizza after the game!
Cristopher exclaimed.
After the game, Cristopher exclaimed, let’s go to my favorite
restaurant to eat pizza!

31. In the book Rat Attacks by Cynthia Laso it says, there are
6.05 billion rats in the world.

32. Practice:
Melvin’s mom works in a cube farm in Palo Alto, California, a
place where rows of cubicles take the place of private offices.
I’d say that group was really bad.
This electric lure is really going to light up some fish’s life.

33. Practice:
Rules is a poem by Karla Kuskin.

34. Practice:
Cures for diseases from arthritis to AIDS may be found in plants in
the rain forest. So, far, only about 10 percent of the world’s plant
species that’s around 250,00 species have been studied.
Will you join the Future Farmers of America FFA club?

35. Practice:
High-tech jobs ones that require both technical education and
on-the-job training are hot.
I think that one of these two careers computer scientist or
systems analyst is my ticket to employment in the future.

36. Practice:
High-tech jobs ones that require both technical education
and on-the-job training are hot.
I think that one of these two careers computer scientist or
systems analyst is my ticket to employment in the future.

37. Practice:
I enjoyed watching the Star Wars movies because there were ro
bots in them.

38. Practice:
A special mesh seeded with live cells may induce self
generating skin for burn victims.

39. Practice:
Four fifths
Seven thirty seconds (7/32)

40. Practice:
Voice recognition software
Heat and serve meals