Participle And Appositive Quiz

Appositives are nouns or noun phrases that follow or come before a noun

• True

• False

What is a participle?

• A verb that is used as an adjective to modify a noun

• A word a the beginning of the sentence to modify an adverb

• A figure of speech

• A math term

What is an example of a participle?

• burned toast

• red ball

• brown pancake

• green socks

How does an appositive phrase function?

• renames the noun
• gives more information about the noun
• is a concise way to define a noun
• all of the above

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CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

Is this a correctly written appositive sentence?

Mrs. Elterman, my 3rd period English teacher, teaches grammar every Tuesday.

• True

• False

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CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

What is the infinitive/infinitive phrase in the following sentence?

To give to others is so important.

• to give to others

• to others

• is so important

• so important

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CCSS.L.8.1A

What is the infinitive/infinitive phrase in the following sentence?

Eating a balanced diet allows a person to keep healthy.

• eating a balanced diet

• balanced

• allows a person

• to keep healthy

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CCSS.L.8.1A

Add an infinitive phrase to the following sentence:

April bought eighty lottery tickets __________________.

• with the hopes of winning.

• at the local convenience store.

• and gave them to her grandmother.

• to increase her chances of winning.

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CCSS.L.8.1A

Identify the participle(s).
Enjoying her victory, Monica jumped around wildly and threw her arms up in celebration.

• Enjoying
• Enjoying, jumped
• Enjoying, threw
• Enjoying, jumped, threw

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CCSS.L.8.1A

CCSS.L.1.4C

Identify the participle(s).
William almost stepped on the snake hidden in the clump of monkey grass.

• stepped
• hidden
• stepped, hidden

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CCSS.L.8.1A

CCSS.L.1.4C