Practice of Supporting Details

When a sentence is a fact, mark the circle next to fact. When a sentence is an opinion, mark the circle next to opinion.

1. Mr. Jones has two dogs and one cat.FactOpinion

2. That picture is by Picasso.FactOpinion

3. Her house is really ugly.FactOpinion

4. My friend has six fingers on one hand.FactOpinion

5. That boy is the bad person in the school.FactOpinion

6. The bus will stop in Costa Rica overnight.FactOpinion

7. L. Frank Baum wrote "The Wizard of Oz".FactOpinion

8. I will finish before the rest of the class.FactOpinion

9. Saprissa is better than the LDA.FactOpinion

10. Nine plus two equals eleven.FactOpinion

Using outside sources: Mark the correct option.

1. Which are the three ways to insert outside information into your own writing:

a) quote, summarize, paraphrase

b) copy, paste, read

c) quote, use opinion, summarize.

2. one way to avoid plagiarism is to always put ______________ around words that you copy exactly.

a) Commas

b) Points

c) Quotation marks

3. The ____________ quotation expresses a report from person exact words without quotation marks.

a) False

b) Direct

c) Indirect

4. The __________ quotation is sometime called reported speech.

a) True

b) Direct

c) Indirect

5. ___________ is using your own words completely or using a mixture of the original author's and your own.

a) Paraphrase

b) Read

c) Copy

Answers

1. Fact / 2.Fact / 3.Opinion / 4.Fact / 5.Opinion / 6.Fact / 7.Fact / 8.Opinion / 9.Opinion / 10.Fact

1.A / 2.C / 3.B / 4.C / 5.A