Language Arts Grade Five

Unit Eight, Lesson Five: Unit Review


  1. cake
  2. lake
  3. shake
  4. brake
  5. fake
  6. stake
  7. period
  8. table
  9. rows
  10. column
  1. elements
  2. chemical
  3. property
  4. express
  5. pouch
  6. mail
  7. carried
  8. stage
  9. post
  10. office
Prepositions

Prepositons are sometimes called location words, but they can help to explain other kinds or relationships between words. Prepositions can also be used to help explain when something happens. Prepositions which help to explain when include:


	during		until		since

	after		before		following

Here are some more prepositions:

	on		near		under

	by		through		beneath

	in		over		around


Abbreviations

Abbreviations exist for commonly used words, names of organizations, names of months and days of the week, for units of measurement, etcetera. Here are some abbreviations for common words:


	WORD(s)			ABBREVIATION

	 etcetera		 etc
	 words per minute	 wpm
	 junction		 jct
	 railroad		 RR
	 canyon			 cyn
	 valley			 vly
	 point			 pt
	 synonym		 syn
	 antonym		 ant
	 amount			 amt
	 abbreviation		 abbr
	 especially		 esp

Abbreviations also exist for chemical elements. Here are a few examples:

	ABBREVIATION		FULL WORD

	  O			 oxygen
	  C			 carbon
	  H			 hydrogen
	  He			 helium
	  N			 nitrogen
	  Mg			 mercury
	  Cu			 copper


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