Grammar Basics
Subjects/Objects
Phrases, Clauses & Sentences
Verbs
Miscellaneous
100
The difference between affect and effect.
What is affect is a verb meaning to influence and effect is a noun meaning result and a verb meaning to cause.
100
Receiver of the action.
What is object.
100
Groups of related words that lacks either a subject or a verb.
What is phrase.
100
Three types of verbs.
What is action, helping and linking.
100
When to use a and an.
What is a comes before a consonant and an comes before a vowel or vowel sound.
200
The difference and hanged and hung.
What is hanged is used when referring to the law.
200
The subject of the sentence. The cup sitting on the table is orange.
What is cup.
200
The independent clause in the sentence. The club rejected the shirt idea because it was ugly.
What is the club rejected the shirt idea.
200
The three broad verb tenses.
What is past, present and future.
200
The plural of tornado.
What is tornadoes.
300
An example of a parallel sentence.
What is he roped and branded calves.
300
The direct object of the sentence. The company congratulated him for being chosen employee of the month.
What is him.
300
Essential to a sentence's meaning. There are no commas.
What is restrictive.
300
Stresses the doer of the action by making the doer the subject.
What is active voice.
300
The study of the form and structure of words and their arrangement in speech or writing.
What is grammar.
400
The way we speak is often different than the way we write.
What is true.
400
The object of preposition in the sentence. After a long, hard rain, the garden grew.
What is rain.
400
This sentence's type. The sky is blue, and the grass is green.
What is compound.
400
Correct this sentence. If the tire had not blown, we could of made it on time.
What is If the tire had not blown, we could have made it on time.
400
Alumni is the plural form.
What is alumnus or alumnae.
500
Correct this sentence. In the winter of 2011 I moved to Georgia.
What is In the winter of 2011, I moved to Georgia.
500
When to use which.
What is to set off something nonrestrictive.
500
The three ways in which a compound sentence can be constructed.
What is 1.) IC connected by a comma and a coordinating conjunction (and, but, for, nor, or, so, yet). 2.)IC connected by a semicolon. 3.)IC connected by a conjunctive adverb (therefore, moreover, etc.) with a semicolon in front of it and a comma after it.
500
A sentence in active voice.
What is He sings in the choir.
500
Three sentence errors.
What is run-on, fragment, fused and comma-splices.
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