Spelling
1. Which of the following is the correct spelling of the word that means “causing damage or harm to someone or something”?
A. detramental
B. detremental
C. detrimentle
D. detrimental
What punctuation mark should be at the end of an interrogative sentence?
A. period
B. exclamation point
C. question mark
D. colon
What is C. Question Mark?
Which of the following words can be classified as compound words?
A. rainbow
B. gumshoe
C. onrush
D. all of the above
What is D. All of the Above?
Which sentence is correctly capitalized?
Mr. Peterson, the Chairperson of the board, left his office at Noon.
Will you take the noon express train, Doctor?
The President will address both houses of congress.
4. A Tale Of Two Cities is my favorite book.
What is 2. Will you take the noon express train, Doctor?
Which of the following would you NOT use italics or underlining?
A. title of a play
B. title of a song
C. title of a film
D. title of a work of art
What is B. Title of a song?
Which of the following words are misspelled?
Manageable
Recitation
Frugal
conscious
What is 4. conscious?
Classify the following sentence:
The sea horse is a very unusual kind of fish.
A. declarative
B. interrogative
C. imperative
D. exclamatory
What is A. Declarative?
Generally the letters “ly”, when used as a suffix, indicate one part of speech. What words that modify adjectives and verbs frequently end in “ly”?
A. adverbs
B. nouns
C. prepositions
D. verbs
What is A. Adverbs?
The use of italics has become synonymous with underlining in most cases. Which of the following would be appropriate use of your typing ability to italicize words?
Titles of plays
Movie titles
Famous speeches
All of the above
What is 4. All of the above?
Choose the sentence with the correct punctuation.
A. Dad asked, “are you ready to go?”
B. Dad asked, “Are you ready to go?”
C. “Dad asked, Are you ready to go?”
D. Dad asked, “Are you ready to go.”
What is B. Dad asked, "Are you ready to go?"
Which of the following words is spelled correctly?
A. sillhouette
B. silhouette
C. silouete
D. sillouette
What is B. silhouette?
How would the following sentence be classified?
They played on the buzzers, but we took practice tests.
A. simple
B. compound
C. complex
D. compound-complex
What is B. Compound?
Identify the simple predicate in the following sentence:
Sharon looked lovely in her red dress and white shoes.
A. white
B. her
C. looked
D. lovely
What is C. looked?
Which of the following sentences has INCORRECT capitalization?
A. Glacier Bay national park is in Alaska.
B. The Grand Coulee Dam is in Washington.
C. Mount Rushmore is in South Dakota.
D. The Henry Ford Museum is in Michigan.
What is A. Glacier Bay national park is in Alaska?
Identify the sentence with the correct punctuation.
A. Abby was born on May, 16, 2009.
B. Abby was born on May 16 2009.
C. Abby was born on May 16, 2009.
D. Abby was born on May, 16 2009.
What is C. Abby was born on May 16, 2009. ?
Which of the following words is spelled correctly?
A. vaccum
B. absense
C. parallel
D. kindergarden
What is C. parallel?
Select the option below that best describes the following sentence.
Although they are 300 miles apart, they keep in contact through email.
A. compound sentence
B. complex sentence
C. simple sentence
D. compound-complex sentence
What is B. Complex Sentence?
Identify the preposition in the following sentence:
The islands of the Caribbean are common tourist spots.
A. Caribbean
B. the
C. common
D. of
What is D. of?
Choose the name of the book that is written correctly and uses a correct method to show that the work is a book.
A. Little House On The Prairie
B. Charlotte’s Web
C. Bridge to Terabithia
D. the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe
What is C. Bridge to Terabithia?
Which sentence is missing a comma?
A. Mary loves winter, but her mother loves fall.
B. Are you hungry, Albert?
C. Joe a good student, did well on his science test.
D. My birthday is December 3, 2002.
What is C. Joe a good student, did well on his science test.?
Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence about the measure of gold in a ring.
Tommy’s ring was made of 18-_______ gold.
A. caret
B. carrot
C. curate
D. karat
What is D. karat?
Identify the dependent clause in the following sentence.
Because she is older than her brother, she tells him what to do.
A. she tells him
B. she tells him what to do
C. Because she is older
D. Because she is older than her brother
What is D. Because she is older than her brother?
Which of the following sentences correctly uses the underlined word as a verb?
A. Give me a hand with the chores.
B. Hand me the spoon, please.
C. Give the little lady a great big hand.
D. The big hand counts the minutes.
What is B. Hand me the spoon, please?
How many words should be capitalized in the following sentence?
her brother sam, a junior in high school, is taking english and cellular biology.
A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6
What is A. 3?
6. Which of the following is correct?
A. My teacher Mr. Jones likes to play baseball.
B. My teacher, Mr. Jones, likes to play Baseball.
C. My teacher, Mr. Jones, likes to play baseball.
D. My teacher Mr. Jones likes to play Baseball.
What is C. My teacher, Mr. Jones, likes to play baseball. ?