Semester 2 Year 6 Grammar Test

What is an adverb?

• A doing word.

• A describing word.

• How something happens or is done. example 'Harshly'

• The name of a person, place or thing.

Which word is the adverb in the following sentence?

Martha began to feel really confident.

• Martha

• feel

• confident

• really

Which word is the adverb in the following sentence?

The girl read the book silently.

• read

• girl

• book

• silently

Which of the following is an adverb?

• tomorrow

• bicycle

• slow

• around

Which of the following is NOT an adverb?

• before

• after

• soon

• jump

Prepositions are words that show relationships between nouns or pronouns and other words.

Find the preposition:

Before dinner, Landen went to the store.

• dinner

• went

• before

• store

Find the preposition:

Isaiah sat on his new bike.

• sat

• on

• his

• new

Find the preposition:

Under a shady tree, Joseph rested.

• shady

• tree

• under

• rested

Find the preposition:

Grace held the leash around her wrist.

• held

• leash

• around

• wrist

Find the preposition:

Juan stayed focused during his reading.

• stayed

• reading

• his

• during