G8 GRammar Studio Diagnostic Screening Test Part 1 (B)

G8 GRammar Studio Diagnostic Screening Test Part 1 (B)

Multiple Choice

Read each sentence. Three of the sentences have at least one error in the use of pronouns, but one of the sentences is correct. Identify the correct sentence in each set.

• She is the geologist whom has specialized in petrified wood.

• The soccer team needs a coach whom is patient.

• For who are you knitting that pretty ski sweater?

• Do you know who made that movie about the Cherokee nation?

Multiple Choice

Read each sentence. Three of the sentences have at least one error in the use of modifiers, but one of the sentences is correct. Identify the correct sentence in each set.

• Jane’s new wheelchair is more nice than the others.

• Of the two blues music albums, this one is best.

• That adult roadrunner is faster than the young ones.

• Are you aware that the neighbor’s volleyball net is more lower than ours?

Multiple Choice

Read each sentence. Three of the sentences have at least one error in the use of modifiers, but one of the sentences is correct. Identify the correct sentence in each set.

• This bed of fossils is more older than the other deposit.

• My older sister says that Marian Anderson’s biography is the most interestingest book she has ever read.

• That computer processes data more slowly than the other one does.

• Do northern countries have the most fewest hours of darkness in summer?

Multiple Choice

Read each sentence. Three of the sentences have at least one error in the use of modifiers, but one of the sentences is correct. Identify the correct sentence in each set.

• Our dog can barely wait until we leave the steaks unattended.

• Chang can’t scarcely hear us because the music is so loud.

• Does she claim never to have had no soreness after working out?

• “Unfortunately,” Linda said, “I haven’t never been to Vermont.”

Multiple Choice

Read each sentence. Three of the sentences have at least one error in the use of modifiers, but one of the sentences is correct. Identify the correct sentence in each set.

• Burying nuts in the ground, Bibi saw a squirrel.

• Working at the pottery wheel, she made six mugs for us.

• I have a cousin with an apple orchard named Louis.

• Arriving late at the pep rally, the confetti had been used.

Multiple Choice

Read each sentence. Three of the sentences have at least one error in the use of modifiers, but one of the sentences is correct. Identify the correct sentence in each set.

• Invented by Louis Pasteur, we are fortunate to have pasteurization

• Pilar discovered a grammar error looking through the Spanish test.

• Moistened and cooked, dried prunes are actually quite tasty.

• Walking toward the ship to meet him, the sailor saw his mother on the dock.

Multiple Choice

Read each sentence. Three of the sentences have at least one error in the use of modifiers, but one of the sentences is correct. Identify the correct sentence in each set.

• Lying under our textbook, we spotted the essay on Mohawk tools.

• Aware that you need facts, this survey should be helpful.

• Having watched television for hours, the set was turned off.

• Darting and pecking, the mockingbird drove the blue jay away.

Multiple Choice

Read each sentence. Three of the sentences have at least one error in the use of modifiers, but one of the sentences is correct. Identify the correct sentence in each set.

• Having developed an advertising campaign for the railroads, many oil paintings were created.

• When hiking through the Tibetan highlands, there is less oxygen.

• Before waving its tentacles, the octopus opened its beaklike mouth.

• Happy and satisfied, the bus carried the water polo team home.

Multiple Choice

Read each sentence. Three of the sentences have at least one error in usage, but one of the sentences is correct. Identify the correct sentence in each set.

• Does our biology teacher know your aware that some snakes have live births?

• Please tell your father that you spotted a bald eagle yesterday.

• Do I understand that your parents are vacationing at a oasis in Death Valley?

• Did you except the new screensaver Mr. Bowen offered you?

Multiple Choice

Read each sentence. Three of the sentences have at least one error in usage, but one of the sentences is correct. Identify the correct sentence in each set.

• “Look,” Christine said, “the new foal is already standing.”

• Mario has all ready left for the neighborhood’s block party.

• Are you alright after going through that terrible storm?

• The mushroom in the terrarium ain’t produced any spores yet.

Multiple Choice

Read each sentence. Three of the sentences have at least one error in usage, but one of the sentences is correct. Identify the correct sentence in each set.

• Could you take your sleeping bag when you come camping with us?

• Our stepmom wants us to take these tomatoes if we go to the neighbors’ house to make salsa.

• Please bring Grandpa this mail when you go to see him on Friday.

• What was the affect of getting your homework done on time?

Multiple Choice

Read each sentence. Three of the sentences have at least one error in usage, but one of the sentences is correct. Identify the correct sentence in each set.

• “Holly,” my brother said, “you did good on that test.”

• Between the three of them, the weeding was done in no time.

• Tonya did that back flip especially well; I hope she enjoyed the applause.

• If he had not been so tired, Chin would of felt good about winning the wrestling match in his weight class.

Multiple Choice

Read each sentence. Three of the sentences have at least one error in usage, but one of the sentences is correct. Identify the correct sentence in each set.

• The construction worker swung the tool belt by it’s strap.

• Perhaps that acrobat will swing from the trapeze by himself.

• The elephant trumpeted and then splashed hisself with river water.

• Is it true that less people play video games than did so five years ago?

Multiple Choice

Read each sentence. Three of the sentences have at least one error in usage, but one of the sentences is correct. Identify the correct sentence in each set.

• According to Juan, this here serape is the most beautiful.

• You had ought to see the sculpture made by Edmonia Lewis.

• Is that there rocket the first one that went to the moon?

• That miniature pig looks like a stuffed toy!

Multiple Choice

Read each sentence. Three of the sentences have at least one error in usage, but one of the sentences is correct. Identify the correct sentence in each set.

• They’re going to perform the ballet Swan Lake this evening.

• Did your coach learn you how to do that balance beam routine?

• Their are two ballerinas who will dance the main role.

• The reason we won the championship was because our team worked hard, was healthy, and learned all the plays

Devonne has written this report for her music class. She has asked you to read her report and offer suggestions for improvement.

(1) For many years Scott, Joplin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning African American pianist and composer, practiced on a borrowed piano. (2) While the young Joplin played on a piano at a house where his mother worked cleaning, she dusted around he and his dreams. (3) Soon he was so good that local music teachers taught him free of charge.

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4) Joplin practiced almost constantly throughout his boyhood. (5) Because there were very few schools for African American children in the late nineteenth century, he probably did not attend a school until he was a teenager. (6) He left home at seventeen. (7) Joplin then spent almost a decade as a popular piano player in St. Louis saloons. (8) Whenever he played, ordinarily noisy saloons became completely quiet except for his music. (9) Joplin finally went to college at age twenty-eight. (10) Afterward, every time he visited St. Louis, his fans held a parade in his honor.

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(11) Piano playing was only half of Joplin’s talent. (12) He also was a gifted composer. (13) He wrote dozens of pieces for the piano, a symphony, a ballet, and two operas. (14) However, Joplin is mostest famous for inventing and perfecting ragtime music. (15) Ragtime is short for “ragged time” because its jumpy, irregular beat sounds ragged, like something ripped.

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(16) Ragtime was the rock music of its day. (17) Some critics claimed it was an addictive sound that destroyed people’s morals and damaged there brains. (18) Yet Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag” was so popular that more than one million people buyed the sheet music. (19) The piece broke all previous sheet music sales records.

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(20) In his forties, Joplin devoted much of his time to writing an opera called Treemonisha. (21) When it finally was performed in 1915, no one liked it. (22) Although Joplin died penniless at forty-nine and was buried in a grave with no headstone, half a century later, two thirds of all best-selling classical recordings were of Joplin’s compositions. (23) Treemonisha, now considered the first American opera, was performed again in 1972 for the first time in over fifty years. (24) In 1976 the Pulitzer Prize in music were awarded to Joplin for Treemonisha. (25) Today, his grave at last has a headstone, which reads “Scott Joplin, American Composer.”

Multiple Choice

What is the BEST change, if any, to make to sentence 2?

2) While the young Joplin played on a piano at a house where his mother worked cleaning, she dusted around he and his dreams.

• Change he to him.

• Change played to plays.

• Change worked to work.

• Make no change.

Multiple Choice

What is the BEST change, if any, to make to sentence 14?

(14) However, Joplin is mostest famous for inventing and perfecting ragtime music.

• Change famous to famously.

• Change Joplin to Joplin he.

• Change mostest to most.

• Make no change.

Multiple Choice

What is the BEST change, if any, to make to sentence 17?

(17) Some critics claimed it was an addictive sound that destroyed people’s morals and damaged there brains.

• Change claimed to claiming.

• Change there to their.

• Change was to were.

• Make no change.

Multiple Choice

What is the BEST change, if any, to make to sentence 18?

(18) Yet Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag” was so popular that more than one million people buyed the sheet music.

• Change buyed to bought.

• Change buyed to buys.

• Change was to is.

• Make no change.

Multiple Choice

What is the BEST change, if any, to make to sentence 24?

(24) In 1976 the Pulitzer Prize in music were awarded to Joplin for Treemonisha.

• Change were to had been.

• Change awarded to award.

• Change were to was.

• Make no change.

Jeremy has written this report for his history class. He has asked you to read his report and offer suggestions for improvement.

(1) Few people in the United States would call their flag a quilt, but Betsy Ross’s original flag was just that—pieces of colored fabric sewn together. (2) Quilting is one of the oldest art forms in this country. (3) In pre-Civil War America, almost every woman knew how to make a quilt. (4) Many girls learned how to stitch long before they learned to read.

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(5) Quilts were necessary even in wealthy homes. (6) Fabric was very expensive and scarce. (7) Factories that made blankets did not exist until the middle of the century. (8) Women therefore made quilts from every scrap of cloth they could find—from pieces of burlap grain sacks, tablecloths, and even men’s ties. (9) However, most quilts were made from pieces of worn clothing.

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(10) Historians know that early female immigrants brought along quilt designs when them and their families came to these shores. (11) Many of the patterns on the earliest American quilts matches those of English ones. (12) African women enslaved in America used the needlework style of their homeland and new methods to create lovely appliqué quilts. (13) In addition, American Indians’ designs on ceramics and other items influenced quilt patterns. (14) One famous American Indian quilt design, called the Lakota Star or Morning Star, represents life and renewal.

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(15) Despite the beauty of quilts, people only recently have begun to consider them art. (16) Quilts traditionally have been labeled “women’s work.”

(17) Movies and books may contribute to misconceptions about quilts by presenting quilting bees as group efforts in design and creation. (18) In reality, the quilt maker usually designs the quilt in advance. (19) She supervises others’ work at the bee. (20) Directing her helpers, like an artist overseeing studio assistants, her guidance is essential.

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(21) Today, quilts are shown and sold not only at local fairs and churches but also in art galleries and museums. (22) Hundreds of books have been written about quilts. (23) Throughout history, women of many different classes, races, and nationalities have practiced this unique craft. (24) Its a truly universal art that has survived the test of time.

Multiple Choice

What is the BEST change, if any, to make to sentence 10?

(10) Historians know that early female immigrants brought along quilt designs when them and their families came to these shores.

• Change them to they.

• Change brought to took.

• Change brought to brang.

• Make no change.

Multiple Choice

What is the BEST change, if any, to make to sentence 11?

(11) Many of the patterns on the earliest American quilts matches those of English ones.

• Change those to them.

• Change earliest to earlier.

• Change matches to match.

• Make no change.

Multiple Choice

What is the BEST change, if any, to make to sentence 15?

(15) Despite the beauty of quilts, people only recently have begun to consider them art.

• Change have begun to were beginning.

• Change have begun to have began.

• Change have begun to had begun.

• Make no change.

Multiple Choice

What is the BEST change, if any, to make to sentence 20?

(20) Directing her helpers, like an artist overseeing studio assistants, her guidance is essential.

• Change her guidance is essential to this leader guides the group.

• Change is to was.

• Change overseeing to oversees.

• Make no change.

Multiple Choice

What is the BEST change, if any, to make to sentence 24?

(24) Its a truly universal art that has survived the test of time.

• Change has to have.

• Change Its to It’s.

• Change truly to true.

• Make no change.

Multiple Choice

What is the BEST change, if any, to make to sentence 20?

(20) Directing her helpers, like an artist overseeing studio assistants, her guidance is essential.

• Change her guidance is essential to this leader guides the group.

• Change is to was.

• Change overseeing to oversees.

• Make no change.