Axia College Material

Appendix F

Comprehensive Grammar CheckPoint Answer Form

Enter the correct answer for each item by typing either a or b in the second column.
Provide an explanation for each choice in the Rationale column. The boxes will expand
to accommodate your text.

Item Correct Rationale

Answer
(a or b)
1. B I chose my answer because it shouldn’t just “her” that’s sexist. And
the correct sentence has his or her in it.

2. A I chose my answer because “B” states that girls are not good at math
and that is sexist.

3. B I chose my answer because answer “A” is racist the new co-worker

being Muslim doesn’t need to be mentioned.

4. B I chose my answer because answer “A” is racist the district attorneys

race doesn’t need to be mentioned.

5. A I chose my answer because stating the childs age is relevant to the

sentence.

6. B I chose my answer because answer “A” is ageist older people can

have a lot of knowledge about technology also.

7. B I chose my answer because I don’t feel that it is relevant to state that

the child is hearing impaired.

8. A I chose my answer because that is a direct question, like that person

likes or dis-likes eating raw fish.

9. B I chose my answer because answer “A” makes it sound like Richard

the 3rd never knew what happened to the princess, when in the
beginning of the sentence it stated he had the princess murdered.
10. B I chose my answer because it is a complete sentence.
11. B I chose my answer because it was Frankenstein that was tugging on
the chains and made the piercing scream.

12. A I chose my answer because it was two separate thoughts.

13. A I chose my answer because “Believe” and “Families” are spelt

correctly.

14. B I chose my answer because “argument” and “commitment” are spelt

correctly.

15. B I chose my answer because “University” needs to be capitalized

because it’s part of a name.

16. A I chose my answer because “December” is a month and it should be

capitalized.

17. A I chose my answer because “it’s” means “it is” and the sentence
sounds correct like that.

18. B I chose my answer because if the sentence said “children’s” it would

mean “children is” and that doesn’t sound correct.

19. B I chose my answer because the other answer doesn’t sound correct.

20. A I chose my answer because “worse yet” coincides with the other
sentence.

21. B I chose my answer because it’s listing multiple places and the semi-
colon helps divide them.

22. A I chose my answer because a colon isn’t needed.

23. B I chose my answer because the sentence doesn’t need that many
commas.

24. B I chose my answer because the comma is dividing the sentence in

the correct place.
25. B I chose my answer because the sentence doesn’t need a comma
because its being divide by “and”