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100

Which one of the following words has the suffix -ing added correctly?

  1. Findding

  2. Talking

  3. Stoping

  4. Hopeing

Talking

100

Which of the following is a sentence fragment?

  1. Knowing he would be late, she took a nap.

  2. Hiding in the tree fort he had built as a kid.

  3. Checking his mail each day was always fun.

  4. Realizing you are getting older is sobering.

Hiding in the tree fort he had built as a kid.

100

What type of sentence is "Good morning to the world!"? 

  1. Interrogative

  2. Imperative

  3. Declarative

  4. Exclamatory

Exclamatory

100

Which of the following pairs of words are homophones?

  1. Right and correct

  2. Blight and bright

  3. Brake and break

  4. Dessert and desert

Brake and break

100

What do you need to know in order to look up a word in the dictionary?

  1. How to pronounce the word

  2. What part of speech the word is

  3. The first few letters of the word

  4. How many syllables the word has

The first few letters of the word

200

 Each one of the following words ends in est. Which one is spelled correctly?

  1. Sillyest

  2. Bigest

  3. Sweettest

  4. Flattest

Flattest

200

Which one of the following groups of words is a fragment?

  1. The Carters enjoy vacationing at the lake.

  2.  Strolling in the park on a summer afternoon.

  3.  In December, we usually take a skiing trip.

  4. Talking on the phone is her favorite pastime.

Strolling in the park on a summer afternoon.

200

Which one of the following sentences is interrogative?

  1. I passed the entrance examination!

  2. What will you do when the well goes dry?

  3. The canned tuna is in the pantry.

  4. Be so kind as to feed my dog.

What will you do when the well goes dry?

200

Which of the following sets of words is an example of homophones?

  1. happy/sad

  2. tried/tried

  3. angry/mad

  4. flea/flee

flea/flee

200

Which of the following statements about dictionaries is not true?

  1. Definitions and pronunciations are usually included.

  2. They identify the word's specific part of speech.

  3.  All of the words are arranged in alphabetical order.

  4. Each word is first shown as it is commonly misspelled.

Each word is first shown as it is commonly misspelled.

300

Which of the following words has to be spelled differently if you're adding a suffix?

  1. City

  2. Enjoy

  3. Safe

  4. Child

City

300

While the choir director was out of the room.

  1. Take out the prepositional phrase

  2. Remove the word while

  3. Put an exclamation mark at the end

  4. Add another subject to the sentence

Remove the word while

300

Which of the following is an example of an imperative sentence?

  1. Your assignment must be submitted on time.

  2. Did you go to the Laundromat?

  3. Whew! That was a close call!

  4. A football field is a 100 yards long.

Your assignment must be submitted on time.

300

. In which sentence is a homophone used correctly?

  1. If you ask me, there's no hobby like fishing.

  2. How many ours do we have to wait?

  3. Karen's new dog had flees.

  4. The old miner was lost in the dessert.

Karen's new dog had flees.

300

Which one of the following sentences contains a spelling error?

  1. What would you like for desert?

  2. Joshua could give no good reason for his absence.

  3. Every autumn we visit a quaint inn near Boston.

  4. Evelyn was not familiar with the procedure.

What would you like for desert?

400

What is the correct way to add the suffix hood to the word likely?

  1.  Likelyhood

  2. Likeliehood

  3. Likelihood

  4. Likehood

Likelihood

400

Which one of the following fragments is a prepositional phrase?

  1. Completed her assignment

  2. Going to Cleveland

  3.  Listening to her heart

  4. During the darkest night

During the darkest night

400

Which of the following is an example of a declarative sentence?

  1. Hand me that towel before I drop this wet bowl.

  2. My favorite television show has been renewed.

  3. Job hunting is incredibly depressing right now!

  4. Precisely when were you going to tell me that?

My favorite television show has been renewed.

400

Which of the following is a run-on sentence?

  1. Tomas was frustrated during class he forgot his book report.

  2. They danced for hours; they never felt remotely tired.

  3. The concert started and the music was incredible.

  4. Holidays always go by too quickly since I get those days off.

Tomas was frustrated during class he forgot his book report.

400

In which one of the following sentences is a word misspelled?

  1.  I spend my leisure time reading books.

  2. Laticia weighed herself on the bathroom scale.

  3. Spanish isn't a foreign language if you're Mexican.

  4. Niether Mike nor Marvin believed in Superman.

Niether Mike nor Marvin believed in Superman.

500

When adding a suffix that begins with a consonant, the general rule is to

  1. change the last letter of the word to y and then add the suffix

  2. double the last letter of the word and then add the suffix.

  3. drop the last letter of the word and then add the suffix.

  4. add the suffix to the end of the word.

add the suffix to the end of the word.

500

What kind of fragment is "near the computer"?

  1. Predicate

  2. Prepositional phrase

  3. Subordinating conjunction

  4. Independent clause

Prepositional phrase

500

If you needed information from someone, what type of sentence would you most likely use?

  1. Imperative

  2. Exclamatory

  3. Interrogative

  4. Declarative

Interrogative

500

Which one of the following is a run-on sentence?

  1. Jerry told me he likes June, but Hank likes Julie better.

  2. I think Frank might be too busy he likes to make people think he's smart.

  3. I'm not a fan of wrestling, but Leslie is.

  4. I would talk to Frank if I knew him, but people don't ever talk to him.

I think Frank might be too busy he likes to make people think he's smart.

500

  1. Suppose you're writing a letter and you recall a word you'd like to use, but you don't know how it's spelled. If you wanted to look up the word in a dictionary, you should use any of the following techniques except 

  2. using the first letter of the word and searching through all the entries under that letter.

  3. looking up the word as you think it's spelled.

  4. looking up a related word that you can spell in search of clues.

  5. writing the word the way you think it's spelled to jog your recall.

using the first letter of the word and searching through all the entries under that letter.