Subject-Verb Agreement
with each step, our feet ______ our full weight, so it is important that we wear supportive shoes.
a. absorbs
b. absorb
b. absorb
Professor Jones is an astronomer at the University of Chicago. She invited us to visit ______ and look through the telescopes.
a. it
b. her
b. her
Differences in backgrounds, abilities, and _______ are all forms of diversity.
a. belief
b. beliefs
b. beliefs
I always rinse the dishes before I put _______ in the dishwasher.
a. them
b. they
a. them
Which of the following is an adjective?
a. her
b. moon
c. blue
d. quickly
c. blue
__________________ blushes at the invitation to come on stage.
a. The girl in the front row
b. The boys in the front rows
a. The girl in the front row
Escape artist Harry Houdini may have started his career in New York, but it was a tour of Europe that made ________ a star.
a. him
b. himself
a. him
During the Civil War, the U.S. government created the Medal of Honor to show appreciation for its war ________.
a. heroes
b. heros
a. heroes
Are you absolutely certain that it was _____?
a. her
b. she
b. she
Which of the following is an adverb?
a. lastly
b. short
c. small
d. fight
a. lastly
The woman with the large purse ______ to catch the bus everyday.
a. hurries
b. hurry
a. hurries
The pronoun in italics is vague. What are all of its possible antecedents?
When I placed the camera on the tripod beside the microphone, I noticed that its case was missing.
camera, tripod, microphone
One of the Hubble Space Telescope's most amazing ___________ was the Hubble Deep Field, filled with about three thousand galaxies.
a. discoverys
b. discoveries
b. discoveries
Is Kelly going to the comic book convention without ____?
a. I
b. me
b. me
Is the following an adverb or adjective?
Slowly
adverb
________ range in color from white to brown to gray.
a. Mice
b. Rat
a. Mice
What is the vague pronoun in the following sentence?
Bruce and Brian drove together, so this sweatshirt is probably his.
his
The interior designer installed floating ________ to create a place for the family to display their favorite books and photographs.
a. shelves
b. shelfs
a. shelves
Those bags belong to the sixth graders. They are _____ bags.
their
Identify the adjective in the sentence below.
He quickly jumped over the tall fence.
tall
Did you know that the store on the corner ________ magazines in six languages?
a. carry
b. carries
b. carries
What is the vague pronoun in the sentence below?
Abby used an old broom to clean up the broken glass before it away.
it
It's hard to imagine that these plump ___________ will eventually transform into delicate butterflies!
a. caterpillars
b. caterpillar's
a. caterpillars
What is the possessive pronoun in the following sentence?
She picked up her bookbag.
What does an adverb modify?
verb