Grammar Review

Grammar Review

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Multiple Select

Read the sentence and select which 2 words from it are nouns.

My young cousin insists that Halloween is definitely the best holiday of the year!

• cousin

• my

• the

• holiday

• insists

Multiple Select

Read the sentence and select which 2 words from it are adjectives.

My young cousin insists that Halloween is definitely the best holiday of the year!

• cousin

• young

• the

• holiday

• best

Multiple Select

Read the passage and select which 2 words from it are pronouns.

Yikes! The house at the edge of town creeps me out. I am sure there is a set of eyes carefully watching anyone who passes by the dreadful place. Voices or sounds can often be heard. The scary part is that it is abandoned and run down.

• creeps

• me

• I

• out

• house

Multiple Select

Read the passage and select which 2 words from it are prepositions.

Yikes! The house at the edge of town creeps me out. I am sure there is a set of eyes carefully watching anyone who passes by the dreadful place. Voices or sounds can often be heard. The scary part is that it is abandoned and run down.

• by

• watching

• scary

• at

• house

Multiple Select

Read the passage and select which 2 words from it are verbs.

Yikes! The house at the edge of town creeps me out. I am sure there is a set of eyes carefully watching anyone who passes by the dreadful place. Voices or sounds can often be heard. The scary part is that it is abandoned and run down.

• by

• watching

• scary

• at

• creeps

Multiple Select

Read the passage and select which 2 words from it are conjunctions.

Yikes! The house at the edge of town creeps me out. I am sure there is a set of eyes carefully watching anyone who passes by the dreadful place. Voices or sounds can often be heard. The scary part is that it is abandoned and run down.

• or

• yikes

• scary

• at

• and

Multiple Choice

Read the passage and select which word from it is an interjection.

Yikes! The house at the edge of town creeps me out. I am sure there is a set of eyes carefully watching anyone who passes by the dreadful place. Voices or sounds can often be heard. The scary part is that it is abandoned and run down.

• by

• watching

• yikes

• house

Multiple Select

Read the passage and select which 2 words from it are adverbs.

Yikes! The house at the edge of town creeps me out. I am sure there is a set of eyes carefully watching anyone who passes by the dreadful place. Voices or sounds can often be heard. The scary part is that it is abandoned and run down.

• by

• watching

• carefully

• often

• house

Fill in the Blank

Example sentence: The skeleton didn't dare move because the human believed he was a decoration.

This sentence is an example of a ___________ sentence.

Hint: simple, compound, or complex

Fill in the Blank

Example sentence: My jack-o-lantern is smiling; my brother's jack-o-lantern is grimacing.

This sentence is an example of a ___________ sentence.

Hint: simple, compound, or complex

Multiple Choice

True or False: The sentence below uses correct subject verb agreement.

The bats flies across the sky at night.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What correction is needed for the sentence below to be correct with sentence verb agreement.

The vampires hunts for their next meal.

• Add more detail to the vampires

• Changes the word "hunts" to "hunt"

• No correction is needed

Multiple Choice

True or False: The sentence below is an correct example of parallel structure?

For Halloween, I am going to throw a party, put on a costume, and scare people.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What correction needs to be made to the sentence below to fix the parallel structure?

My favorite month is October because I love wearing comfy sweaters, drink delicious hot chocolate, and seeing the changing leaves.

• The word "leaves" is spelled wrong.

• No correction is needed.

• "drink" needs to be changed to "drinking"

Multiple Choice

Read the sentence and select which option would be correct for an appositive phrase.

The creature, __________ , startled me.

• with large teeth

• a tall dog-like thing with large teeth

• tall and dark

Multiple Select

Which 2 sentences are correct examples of appositive phrases?

• The monster, a green scaly beast, roared loudly.

• I saw a monster, and it rouared loudly.

• The man ran from the monster, a giant roaring beast.

• The man was running from a large, green monster.

Multiple Select

Which of the following is true about Beginning Participial Phrases?

(Hint: 4 optsions are correct)

• They must start with a verb.

• It must act like an adjective.

• The verb must end with -ing, -ed, or -en.

• It must come at the beginning of the sentence.

• It can be a sentence by itself.

Multiple Select

Which 2 sentences below are correct examples of Beginning Participial Phrases?

• The ghost slammed doors to scare people.

• Scaring the residents, the ghost delighted in his success.

• Terrified by the movie, Tonya didn't dare turn off the light.

• Tonya was so scared that she couldn't sleep all night.

Poll

After completing this review to see where your understanding is, how do you feel about the test tomorrow?