Grammar
Phrases
Word Use
Adjectives
Word Use
100
What are the words that substitute for nouns and refer to people or things previously mentioned in the sentence or surrounding sentences?
What is a pronoun?
100
What is always used as an adjective phrase to modify a noun or pronoun. It includes the participle together with its modifiers, objects, or predicate words.
What is participial phrase?
100
My sister waded through the _____ while her friend read, but they both stopped to listen when two thrushes called to each other. A. forgotten B. perpetual C. brook D. deliberate
What is brook?
100
Which of the following words is an adjective? dancing meatball red
What is red?
100
As I lay there on my back, my hands under my head, I could hear the sea relentlessly _____ against the sand. A. windowsill B. china C. furniture D. pounding
What is pounding?
200
Is the pronoun singular or plural? Everybody on the team practiced almost every day before the competition.
What is plural?
200
What is a phrase in a sentence that doesn't need to be there? For example; The boy, who just ate dinner, wrote that story. No one needs to know that the boy just ate dinner. Who just ate dinner is a nonessential phrase.
What is nonessential phrase?
200
In October, which is early spring in the Antarctic, penguins _____ the water and walk over sea ice to their breeding grounds. A. toxic B. table C. nest D. leave
What is leave?
200
Which of the following words is NOT an adjective? tall strong hairy man
What is man?
200
The first thing she saw was this charming girl in the _____ , in her black hat trimmed with gold daisies, and a long black velvet ribbon. A. improvised B. upstream C. mirror D. warmth
What is mirror?
300
Which of the following is a complex sentence? 1. Dan and I hiked to the general store, which was about a mile away. 2. People made jokes about him or ignored him. 3. Later he went to New York, but he could not find a job. 4. People all over the world love his stories describing the life and times of the ancient Greeks.
What is Dan and I hiked to the general store, which was about a mile away.
300
Choose the answer that best describes the paranthesed group of words. Mi ling, (searching the internet day and night), learns much about the solar system. 1. essential phrase 2. nonessential phrase 3. prepositional phrase 4. infinitive phrase
What is nonessential phrase?
300
Monte has taken up rock-climbing with Bill Ramsey who squeezes in biology teaching when he isn’t climbing _____. A. temper B. mountains C. diner D. performer
What is mountains?
300
Fill in the following sentence with an appropriate adjective: The _______ girl cried all day.
Answers will vary.
300
Emily Dickinson loved nature and took long walks with herdog, especially in the fall when the hills, as she said, “put on their _____ shawls.” A. defective B. surround C. comparison D. paisley
What is paisley?
400
Choose the sentence that is written correctly. 1. Chelsea, you bat after, Selma. 2. Do you like to play baseball, Anna? 3. Yes, Keisha we need to score more runs. 4. Where is your batter's helmet Daniela?
What is Do you like to play baseball, Anna?
400
Which word is modified by the participial phrase in the following sentence? Known as the ringed planet, Saturn is easily recognized in the night sky.
What is Saturn?
400
Before the ballet _____ began, Dora worried about what her state of mind should be, and whether panic would crowd out the well-practiced steps and her emotions as she danced. A. exultant B. competition C. aspire D. enhanced
What is competition?
400
What kind of phrase is the highlighted group of words? The shirt with the green stripes is mine.
What is adjective?
400
The Great Barrier Reef, which curves around the Australian shore for 150 miles, is the most extensive _____ ever developed by man or animal. A. watchdog B. structure C. overdo D. squid
What is structure?
500
Which sentence is NOT correctly punctuated? 1. "That's amazing!" said Spencer. "I've never seen a shooting star before." 2. "That's amazing," said Spencer. "I've never seen a shooting star before." 3. "That's amazing," said Spencer. "I've never seen a shooting star before!" 4. "That's amazing," said Spencer, I've never sen a shooting star before."
What is "That's amazing," said Spencer, I've never sen a shooting star before."
500
Choose the sentence in which the paranthesed words are a participial phrase. 1.Everyone (had been dancing) in the aisles. 2.By the end of the show, everyone (was singing). 3.We gave the actors a (standing ovation). 4.The singers (have practiced) under the bright lights.
What is We gave the actors a standing ovation.
500
When the stationmaster stepped out of the little brick station with its pointed chalet roof, a sudden gust of wind _____ the legs of his uniform. A. perfumed B. whipped C. daisies D. sensation
What is whipped?
500
List three adjectives that start with the letter T.
Answers will vary.
500
Mr. Ota was a landscape gardener who had built up a very good _____ for being reliable and the possessor of an excellent green thumb. A. reputation B. exclamation C. appointed D. ceremony
What is reputation?
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