English 12 Final Exam Review (part 1)

Choose the parts of speech.

• Noun

• cliche

• interjection

• preposition

Choose the parts of speech.

• phrase

• pronoun

• verb

• adverb

Choose the parts of speech.

• allegory

• conjunction

• adjective

• antonym

The sentence elements that can be used as nouns.

• gerund

• infinitive

• conjunction

• noun clause

Read the passage and identify the part of speech for the following words from the passage.

FOUR SCORE AND SEVEN YEARS AGO, OUR FOREFATHERS BROUGHT FORTH UPON THIS CONTINENT A NEW NATION CONCEIVED IN LIBERTY AND DEDICATED TO THE PROPOSITION THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL

• Four = adj

• score = N

• and = v

• seven = adj

Read the passage and identify the part of speech for the following words from the passage.

FOUR SCORE AND SEVEN YEARS AGO, OUR FOREFATHERS BROUGHT FORTH UPON THIS CONTINENT A NEW NATION CONCEIVED IN LIBERTY AND DEDICATED TO THE PROPOSITION THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL.

• and = Conj

• years = N

• none of the above

• ago = Adv

Read the following sentence: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Identify both the verbal and type of verbal in this sentence.

• verbal = beginning

  type = gerund

• verbal = heavens

  type = noun

• verbal = earth

  type = gerund

• verbal = beginning

  type = infinitive

Identify the sentence below as either simple, compound, or complex.

Informality is sometimes fine; however, it can be carried too far.

• compound

• complex

• simple

• compound-complex

Identify the sentence below as either simple, compound, or complex.

Even if I sin, God is able to forgive.

• compound-complex

• compound

• complex

• simple

Names of tangible objects are called (a)   nouns.

Options: common, concrete, collective