Grade 8's Grammar Quiz

What is a noun?

• The name of a person, place or thing.

• The name of a person in Grade 8.

• An action or doing word.

• A word that describes where, when or how something is happening.

Which sentence is in the present perfect progressive tense?

• I had been eating fries.

• I have been eating fries.

• I will have been eating fries.

• I was eating fries.

What is parenthesis?

• When two or more words begin with the same sound.

• Using full stops, question marks and exclamation marks to end sentences.

• Using brackets, dashes or commas to add extra information.

• When your mum or dad write an essay.

What is the subject-verb-object pattern for a passive voice sentence?

• SVO

• VSO

• VOS

• OVS

When do we use colons? Select two answers.

:

• To start a list.

• To introduce a new idea or solution within a sentence.

• To add two related sentences together.

• To pause between each item in a list.

Which sentence uses parenthesis correctly?

• Henry VIII Tudor king of England had 6 wives - throughout his life.

• Henry, VIII Tudor king of England, had 6 wives throughout his life.

• Henry VIII (Tudor king of England) had 6 wives throughout his life.

• Henry VIII Tudor - king of England had 6 wives - throughout his life.

Which is an example of a contracting apostrophe?

• Mr Bret's laptop

• The footballers' boots

• The sheep's wool

• It's over there

What is the tense of the following sentence?

Kamil has started to cut a potato.

• Present Perfect tense

• Present Perfect Continuous tense

• Past Perfect tense

• Past Perfect Continuous tense

Where should a comma go in the following sentence?

Yesterday Turan played football.

• After 'Yesterday'

• After 'Turan'

• After 'played'

• The sentence does not need a comma.

Where should a comma go in the following sentence?

I could have done it but perhaps something bad would have happened.

• After 'but'

• After 'it'

• After 'perhaps'

• The sentence does not need a comma.