Adjectives
Name the descriptive adjective(s) of:
“Pompeii was an Italian city that was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in A.D. 79.”
What is Italian?
Choose the correct preposition to complete each sentence:
”My mother, brother, and I order bulbs and seeds; _____ (between or among) the three of us, we receive many gardening catalogs.”
What is “between”
Choose the correct verb to complete each sentence.
He _____ (taught/learned) us how to project our voices onstage and gave lots of other tips about acting.
What is “taught”
Complete each sentence with the plural form of the noun or nouns parentheses:
”Adults always tell _____ (child) to eat their fruits and vegetable.”
What is “children”
Choose the correct pronoun to complete the sentence.
”Everyone is as excited about the drama’s new musical as (I/me)”
What is “I”
Complete each sentence with fewer or less
“All of us had (fewer or less) time to work on the class yearbook this year than we had last year?”
What is less?
Identify the adverb or preposition in each sentence. (Can have both)
The rain splashed down while we were running towards shelter.
What is ”down” (adverb), ”toward” (preposition)
Identify the verbs in the sentence. Tell the tense and voice of each verb.
Carlos has purchased a new digital camera.
What is ”purchased“ (verb), tense is (Perfect present), and voice is active.
Name the subject and subject complement in the sentence.
”London is a city that has seen its fair share of wars.”
What is “London” (subject), and what is “a city” (subject complement)
Complete the sentence with who or whom.
”By ____ were you told?”
What is “whom”
complete each sentence with the comparative or superlative form of the adjective in parentheses:
”Mammoth Cave, also in Kentucky, has a ______ (extensive) cave system than the Carlsbad Caverns do.”
What is “more extensive”
Tell whether the italicized word is an adverb or preposition.
Have you ever wanted to climb up a mountain?
What is a ”up” (preoposition)
Identify the linking verbs and the subject complements in these sentences. Not every sentence has a linking verbs.
”He became famous for his songs about the United States and its people.”
What is “Became” (linking verb) What is “famous” (subject complement)
Name the direct object in the sentence.
”Professional airtight in our community often make donations too”
What is “donations”
Complete the sentence with a pronoun. Use the directions in parentheses.
”This year _____ will have a chance to choose some classes ourselves” (first person plural)
What is “we”
Complete each sentence with an adjective of the type indicated in parentheses:
“_____ herbs included rosemary, sage, and lavender” (interrogative)
What is ”What”
Identify the preposition or prepositions in each sentence. Name the object of each preposition:
”Because of the princess's beauty, many men fell in love with her at first sight”
The prepositions are “because of”, ”in”, “with”, and ”of”
Identify the verb or verb phrase in each sentence. Then tell whether the sentence is in the indicative, imperative, or emphatic mood.
”I do hope to paint T-shirt for the school logo contest.”
What is “can work” (verb phrase); what is emphatic (mood)
Complete the sentence with the singular possessive or plural possessive form of the noun in parentheses.
On Sunday morning our _____ (city) park department holds “green markets”.
What is “city's”
Write the correct form of the personal pronoun indicated in parentheses.
“Lincoln's speech was presented to the class by both (third person singular feminine) and (first person singular)”
What is ”her” (third person singular feminine), and what is “me” (first person singular)
Identify the adjective phrases and name the words they modify:
”Our trip to Hawaii was a great success”
What is adjective phrase “to Hawaii” and word modified “trip”
Identify the adverb phrases or phrases in the sentence. Name the word or words the adverb phrase describes.
She was acting on her deepest beliefs.
What is “on her deepest beliefs” (adverb phrase), ”acting” (describes)
Identify the verb phrase with a modal auxiliary in each sentence. Tell whether the verb phrase expresses permission, possibility, ability, necessity obligation, or intention:
”In fact, they say that I must get better grades”
What is “must get” (verb phrase) What is ”must(modal auxiliary ) what is “Obligation” ( meaning expressed)
Identify the appositive in the sentence. Then tell which noun the appositive explains.
“She spent most of her youth in Concord, a town near Boston.”
What is “a town near Boston“ (appositive), and what is “Concord” (noun it explains)
Identify the intensive or reflexive pronoun in the sentence. Then identify its antecedent.
“My parents decided on our vacation plans for this years themselves, with the help of my cousins' family.”
What is “themselves” (pronoun), and what is intensive (type)