Grammar Quiz Review

Read the sentence and choose the answer that identifies the type of sentence:

Before the sun rises, she runs two miles or exercises.

• simple

• compound

• complex

Identify the sentence type.

Summer and Madison both take music lessons weekly.

• simple

• compound

• complex

Identify the sentence type.

Bethany wants to walk to the theater, but I want to take a taxi.

• simple

• compound

• complex

Identify the appositive in the sentence:

Seattle, the largest city in Washington, gets a lot of rain.

• Seattle, the largest city in Washington

• gets a lot of rain

• the largest city in Washington

Identify the appositive:

The boy, an avid sprinter, raced ahead to the finish line."

• The boy

• an avid sprinter

• raced ahead to the finish line

What change, if any, should be made to this sentence?

An enormous man of great strength Henry was able to carry the entire pallet of bricks by himself.

• An enormous man of great strength Henry, was able to carry the entire pallet of bricks by himself

• An enormous man, of great strength, Henry was able to carry the entire pallet of bricks by himself

• An enormous man of great strength, Henry was able to carry the entire pallet of bricks by himself

Complete the sentences with the correct homophone:

_____ parents live in Canada and _____ flying to Quebec to be _____with them for _____ fortieth wedding anniversary.

• they're, their, there, their

• their, they're, their, there

• their, they're, there, their

Which sentence uses the rule of comma for an interjection correctly?

What a pity. You have lost it.

• What a pity! You have lost it.

• What a pity. You have lost it!

• What a pity, you have lost it!

Complete the sentences with the correct homophone.

“I met the people he talked _____, _____ - _____Swedish-Brazilian professional unicyclists.”

• too, to two

• to, too, two

• to, two, too

Choose the correct ending to the sentence. As she eyed his lunch Betsy asked, “How can you eat a tuna sandwich while

• hoisting a piano?

• hoisting a piano"?

• hoisting a piano?”