Grade 2 ELA Practice Test: Compound Words and Contractions
- Compound Words and Contractions
- 10 questions
- 12 minutes
Questions 1-4 and 10 are about compound words (two small words joined into one), and questions 5-9 are about contractions. Tip: in a contraction, the apostrophe takes the place of the missing letters.
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Question 1
Which word is a compound word?
Correct answer: C
Sunflower is made of two words, sun and flower. Sunny is sun plus the ending -y, not two words.
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Question 2
Which two words make the compound word bedroom?
Correct answer: D
A bedroom is a room with a bed, so it is bed + room.
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Question 3
Which word can join rain to make a compound word?
Correct answer: A
Rain + bow = rainbow, two real words joined. -ing, -y and -ed are endings, not words, so raining and rainy are not compound words.
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Question 4
What does the compound word footprint mean?
Correct answer: B
Put the two parts together: a print (a mark) made by a foot.
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Question 5
Which contraction means do not?
Correct answer: D
Don't is do + not; the apostrophe takes the place of the o in not. Doesn't means does not.
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Question 6
Which two words make the contraction I'm?
Correct answer: A
I'm is I + am, and the apostrophe stands for the missing a. I will becomes I'll.
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Question 7
Which is the correct contraction for she is?
Correct answer: C
Drop the i in is and put the apostrophe there: she's.
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Question 8
Which word finishes the sentence?
We ____ go outside because it is raining.
Correct answer: B
Can't is the short form of cannot. The apostrophe goes where the letters no were taken out.
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Question 9
Which is the contraction for they are?
Correct answer: C
They're means they are. Their and there sound the same, but they are not contractions and have no apostrophe.
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Question 10
Which sentence has a compound word?
Correct answer: D
Popcorn is made of pop and corn. None of the words in the other sentences are made of two smaller words.
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