Grammar Basics
This is the subject of the sentence:
The curious kitten chased the red laser.
What is "kitten"?
This punctuation mark is missing in the sentence:
Let's eat Grandma.
What is a "comma"?
This is the correct spelling of the word meaning “many of”
A. alot
B. allott
C. a lot
D. alott
What is C, a lot?
This is the correct font and size for MLA format.
A. Times New Roman, 12 pt
B. Calibri, 11 pt
C. Arial, 11 pt
D. Garamond, 14 pt
What is A, Times New Roman, 12 pt?
This is Mrs. Chapman's favorite color.
What is "black"?
This word is the verb in the sentence:
The students completed their work quickly.
What is "completed"?
This sentence uses the apostrophe correctly.
A. The dogs bone is missing.
B. The dog's bone is missing.
C. The dogs' bone is missing.
D. The dog' s bone is missing.
What is B, “The dog's bone is missing”?
This word correctly completes the sentence:
I didn’t know ___ jacket was missing.
A. there
B. their
C. they’re
D. thare
What is B, their?
____________ is the correct spacing for MLA formatted essays.
What is "double spaced"?
The missing word in the following classroom expectation is _____________.
"Hats, hoods, ______________, earphones, and phones are off/put away during class."
What is "backpacks"?
This type of error appears in the following:
Running through the hallway after the bell.
What is a "sentence fragment?"
This is where the comma belongs in the sentence:
After the movie we went to dinner.
What is after the word "movie"?
This is the correctly spelled word.
A. embarass
B. embarrass
C. embaras
D. embarasse
What is B, embarrass?
This is where the page number and last name of the author of an essay belong on an MLA formatted essay.
What is the "top right corner"?
This is Chapman's energy drink of choice.
What is "Rockstar: Recovery - Lemonade flavor"?
This error is found in the sentence:
The bell rang we packed our bags and left.
What is a "run-on sentence"?
This sentence uses quotation marks correctly.
A. He said “don’t forget your homework”.
B. He said, “Don’t forget your homework.”
C. He said, “Don’t forget your homework”.
D. He said “Don’t forget your homework.”
What is B, “He said, ‘Don’t forget your homework.’”?
This is the correct spelling.
A. seperate
B. sepparate
C. sepparate
D. separate
What is D, separate?
The correct way to format the title of a short story when citing it in an MLA formatted essay is ________.
What is "in quotation marks"?
Chapman taught this subject for the majority of her career.
What is "theatre"?
This is the grammatically correct sentence.
A. Me and her went to the library.
B. Her and me went to the library.
C. She and I went to the library.
D. I and she went to the library.
What is C, “She and I went to the library”?
This is the correctly punctuated version of:
I have three favorite subjects English math and science.
What is “I have three favorite subjects: English, math, and science.”?
This is the correctly spelled word meaning “to notice small details.”
A. percieve
B. percieive
C. perceive
D. percive
What is C, perceive?
This is the correct in-text citation for a quote from page 42 of a story by John Steinbeck.
A. (John Steinbeck 42)
B. (Steinbeck, page 42)
C. (Steinbeck 42)
D. (42 Steinbeck)
What is C, (Steinbeck 42)?
Chapman has this many dogs.
A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4
What is D, 4 dogs?