Grade 7 Scoring Sampler Passage Set and Prompt Writing Prompt
Write an essay for your school newspaper arguing whether playing video games
significantly affects physical health. Your essay must be based on the ideas,
concepts, and information that can be determined through analysis of the "Do Video
Games Have a Major Effect on Players' Physical Health?" passage set.
Manage your time carefully so that you can
read the passages;
plan your response:

English testmatch ! match the definition to the term. 1 . adjective phrase a verb form (which may end in -ing ) used as an adjective 2 . phrase a verb form used as another part of speech 3 . restrictive clause a verb form ending in -ing used as a noun 4 . verb phrase group of words without a subject and verb used as single part of speech 5 . gerund phrase verb form preceded by to that is used as a noun, an adjective, or an adverb 6 . participle phrase beginning with a preposition 7 . verbal prepositional phrase modifying a noun or pronoun 8 . adverb phrase participle with complements and modifiers 9 . coordinating conjunction verb ending in -ing used with a verb 10 . gerund prepositional phrase modifying a verb, adjective, or adverb 11 . prepositional phrase a conjunction that joins words or groups of words of equal rank 12 . infinitive an adjective clause that is essential to the meaning of the sentence 13 . participial phrase a verbal form ending in -ing with its object and modifiers used as a noun

What else do you think experts can learn from studying the language of written work? what do you think is the value of studying the language of william shakespeare whose writing is over hundreds of years old?

What does the reader need to do in order to understand the dramatic situation of a poem? explain