Language Overview

Language Test

by Lauren Brits

​Parts of Speech

• ​Noun (Proper and Common)

• ​Pronoun

• ​Verb

• ​Adjective

• ​Adverb

• ​Article

• ​Preposition

• ​Conjunction

• ​Interjection/Exclamation

​PUNCTUATION

​What To Do

• ​Read the question

• ​Look at the possible answers

• ​Select which one you think is correct

• ​AND

• ​Repeat until completed.

Multiple Select

QUESTION 1

IDENTIFY the NOUN(S) in the sentence below.

Mrs. Smith was the greatest teacher. 

• Mrs. Smith

• teacher

• was

• greatest

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​Mrs. Smith and teacher are both nouns!

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​Mrs. Smith is a Proper Noun and teacher is a Common Noun.

Multiple Choice

QUESTION 2

What is a NOUN?

• It is an action word

• It is a word that describes something or someone

• It is a person, place, thing or idea.

• I don't know what a noun is.

​​Nouns are words that are a person, a place, a thing or idea.

​There are 3 types of nouns

​Pronouns

​Common Nouns

​Proper Nouns

Multiple Choice

QUESTION 3

Which word is a noun?

• Run

• Loudly

• Calendar

• Purple

​CALENDAR

... is a noun because a calendar is a THING.

​

The word run is a verb

​The word loudly is an adverb

The word purple is an adjective

Multiple Choice

QUESTION 4

Which word is NOT a noun?

• Brother

• Dog

• Smelly

• Alphabet

​SMELLY

... is not a noun! 

Smelly is an adjective.

Multiple Choice

QUESTION 5

PROPER NOUNS

Which of the following need(s) to be capitalised?

• names

• titles

• place

• all of the above

​ALL OF THE ABOVE!

A proper noun is the a specific (i.e., not generic) name for a particular person, place, or thing.

​

Proper nouns are always capitalized in English, no matter where they fall in a sentence.

Open Ended

QUESTION 6

Can you write down 3 proper nouns (a SPECIFIC place, person or thing).

​SOME EXAMPLES

​PEOPLE

​William Shakespeare

​Harry Potter

​The Prime Minister

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​PLACE

​China

​Dreary Lane

Burger King

​THING

​Samsung 8

​The Hungry Caterpillar

​Amazon

Multiple Choice

QUESTION 7

Fix this sentence: 

My brother, andy, goes to school in london.

• Brother, Goes, School

• Brother, Andy, School

• Andy, London

• None of these.

​Andy and London

​These are proper nouns and therefore need to be capitalised.

Multiple Choice

QUESTION 8

What is a Pronoun?

• It is a part of a noun.

• It describes a noun.

• It is word that replaces a common or proper noun.

• I don't know what a pronoun is.

​PRONOUN

​... is a word that replaces a proper noun or a common noun.

Multiple Choice

QUESTION 9

Which of the following is a Pronoun?

• She

• Dog

• Think

• beautifully

​SHE

​... is a PRONOUN.

​

​Why?

​

​It replaces a common or proper noun. She could replace "the teacher" or it could replace "Mrs. Walters".

​

Other pronouns are

​He, It, Them, They, Their, Those, Us, We, I, Me, You, Yourself, Myself, Himself, Herself, Everybody, Someone

Multiple Choice

QUESTION 10

What is an ADJECTIVE?

• It describes a noun.

• It is a person, place, thing or idea.

• It is an action word.

• It is a word that describes a verb.

• I don't know what an adjective is.

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​Adjectives describe people, places, things or ideas!

Multiple Choice

QUESTION 11

Which word is an adjective?

• Girl

• Dog

• Swim

• Pretty

​PRETTY

​... is an adjective.

​

​WHY?

​

​It describes HOW someone or something looks.

Open Ended

QUESTION 12

Please write down 6 adjectives.

​SOME EXAMPLES

​Describe PERSON

​Pretty

​Ugly

​Happy

​

​Describe PLACE

​Beautiful

​Warm

​Busy

​Describe THING

​Shiny

​Wooden

​Old

Multiple Choice

QUESTION 13

IDENTIFTY the VERB(S) in the sentence below.

My sister runs faster than a cheetah! 

• sister

• runs

• cheetah

• than 

​RUNS

... is the verb because it shows the ACTION the girl took.

Multiple Choice

QUESTION 14

What is a VERB?

• It is a word that describes something or someone

• It is an action word

• It is a person, place, thing or idea.

• I don't know what a verb is.

​A VERB

... is an action word! 

​

It shows the subject or noun doing something.

Multiple Choice

QUESTION 15

Fill in the blank with the correct word (VERB). 

My mother _____ me money for a chocolate bar.

• felt

• gave

• ran

• talked

GAVE

... ​is the correct verb.

​

​Why?

​

​It is a past tense version a the VERB "give"! Verbs have different tenses depending on when they happened.

Multiple Choice

QUESTION 16

What is punctuation?

• the marks used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and to clarify meaning

• the part of a sentence that is the most important

• the part of the sentence that shows movement

• I don't know what punctuation is. 

​PUNCTUATION

​... is the marks used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and to clarify meaning.

​

​What kinds are there?

​the period or full stop, question mark, exclamation mark, comma, colon, semi-colon, dash, hyphen, brackets, braces, parentheses, apostrophe, quotation mark, and ellipsis.

Multiple Choice

QUESTION 17

What does a full stop or period do?

• It is used at the end of a sentence that is a question.

• It is used at the end of a sentence to show the sentence is complete.

• is used at the end of a word, phrase or sentence to show a forcefulness or strong feeling

• I don't know what a full stop or period is

Multiple Choice

QUESTION 18

What does an exclamation mark do?

• It is used at the end of a sentence that is a question.

• It is used at the end of a sentence to show the sentence is complete.

• is used at the end of a word, phrase or sentence to show a forcefulness or strong feeling

• I don't know what a full stop or period is

Multiple Choice

QUESTION 19

What does an question mark do?

• It is used at the end of a sentence that is a question.

• It is used at the end of a sentence to show the sentence is complete.

• is used at the end of a word, phrase or sentence to show a forcefulness or strong feeling

• I don't know what a full stop or period is

Multiple Choice

Question 20

Use the correct punctuation.

What do you think you are doing_

• .

• ?

• !

Multiple Choice

QUESTION 21

Stop_ You can't cross here.

• .

• ?

• !

Multiple Choice

QUESTION 22

Her face is heart-shaped, it suits her pretty hair_

• .

• ?

• !

Multiple Choice

QUESTION 23

True or False?

A comma can be used in dates, addresses and to separate words in a sentence.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

QUESTION 24

Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

• Yes, I would like to go to the zoo.

• My brother Joe is four years old

• I live at 312 Privet Dr. London UK

• My mother is the greatest?

Multiple Choice

QUESTION 25

Sentence structures. 

Which of the following is structured correctly?

• My dog fast runs.

• Jumps up Mary trees into. 

• James loves ice hockey.

• And the cat all sleeps day.

​James loves ice hockey.

​The subject (James) is in the correct position at the beginning of the sentence.

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​The predicate (loves) expresses action or being within the sentence. The simple predicate contains the verb but can also contain modifying words, phrases, or clauses. In a simple sentence, it follows the subject.

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​The predicate can include the object of a sentence.

The object (ice hockey) is in the correct position at the end of the sentence.

​This sentence has a direct object.

Multiple Choice

QUESTION 26

Which version of this sentence is correct?

• I to the park.

• I went to the park.

• Me go to the park.

Multiple Choice

QUESTION 27

Is this a complete sentence?

Blue airplanes.

• Yes

• No

​No.

​Why?

​

​We do not know what the airplanes did.

Multiple Choice

Question 28

Is this sentence complete?

I sang a song.

• Yes.

• No.

Open Ended

Question 30

Write your own sentence about: 

An animal of your choice 

(e.g. Dog, Cat, Rabbit, Horse, Bird, Hamster)