✏️ Grammar & Conventions: Contested Usage (Grade 11)

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Resolve issues of complex or contested usage, consulting references.

1. Consult a style guide: "Literally" meaning "figuratively"?

2. Consult a style guide: Should you split infinitives? ("to boldly go")

3. Consult a style guide: "Data is" or "data are"?

4. Consult a style guide: Is "they" acceptable as a singular pronoun?

5. Consult a style guide: Can a sentence end with a preposition? ("What are you looking at?")

Answer key: 1) avoid in formal writing; contested usage · 2) acceptable when it improves clarity · 3) both accepted; "data are" in formal/scientific writing · 4) yes — accepted by major style guides for an unknown or nonbinary person · 5) yes — accepted in most modern style guides

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Free Grade 11 English worksheet (Common Core L.11-12.1.b): resolve issues of complex or contested usage, consulting references. Skill: Resolve issues of complex or contested usage, consulting references. Level: Grade 11 — also suits Year 12 (UK).

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CCSS L.11-12.1.b: Resolve issues of complex or contested usage, consulting references
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