Grammar Quiz #1

A sentence fragment is ______________.

• a sentence that is too long.

• an incomplete sentence.

• a sentence that has too many sentences in one.

Which of these is a sentence fragment?

• I love chocolate milkshakes.

• The album contains many pictures.

• That picture very nice.

• Where did the puppy go?

A run-on sentence contains ___________.

• two or more complete sentences.

• a sentence about running.

• has incorrect spelling.

• does not have complete sentences.

Which of these is a run-on sentence?

• This is a book that I would love to read.

• The first picture is of a bear in a river the water looks so cold!

• If I were the bear, I would climb up that tree very fast.

• That back page shows two people fishing.

The present perfect tense tells about an action that

• happened in the past.

• will happen in the future.

• is happening right now.

• started in the past and is continued in the present.

Choose the sentence that creates a present perfect tense for:

I (walk) to school with Dad every day this month.

• I will walk to school with Dad every day this month.

• I am walking to school with Dad every day this month.

• I used to walk to school with Dad every day this month.

• I have been walking to school with Dad every day this month.

Temporal words and phrases are ____________.

• used to show the temperature of a person.

• used to to show the location of an event.

• used to order events and make timing in writing clear.

• used to fix run-on sentences and fragments.

Choose the word(s) and / or phrase(s) that are samples of temporal words. (There may be more than one option.)

• five weeks ago

• what did we do?

• we will be so happy

• after lunch

• two days from now

What tense is used for the underlined words? (write it in order)

We brought our flashlights although we aren't afraid of the dark.

• present , present

• past , past

• past, present

• present, past

Choose the word that matches the definition.

changes made to a law

• public

• benefited

• amendments

• impressive