Grammar Quiz 7

Choose the word that completes the sentence:

I got Stephen Curry's ________ at last night's basketball game.

• bibliography

• automatic

• autograph

• autonomy

Which words are a dangling modifier in this sentence:

Flying our kite, the string got tangled around some tree branches.

• got tangled

• around some tree branches

• the string

• Flying our kite,

Is running a verb or a gerund in this sentence?

Jonathan was running down the hall when he crashed into an open locker door.

• verb

• gerund

What is the meaning of the common idiom:

cutting edge ?

• goodbye

• new, first

• sharp like scissors

• old

What is the participle in the following sentence?

Michael's scraped elbows were nothing compared to his bloody knees.

• scraped

• were

• knees

• compared

What words are the infinitive in the following sentence?

Bailey could not wait to ride in her grandfather's boat.

• could not

• grandfather's boat

• in her

• to ride

Which sentence has correct capitalization?

• The title of the short story is "the lottery."

• I live in Perry, florida.

• Tomorrow, i will give my dog a bath.

• I can't wait to read The Giver in class.

What does it mean when a verb uses active voice in a sentence?

• The sentence has a lot of action.

• The subject is doing the action of the sentence.

• The sentence is in the present tense.

• The sentence is using dialogue.

How should I correct the subject verb agreement in the following sentence?

The students is going on a field trip.

• The students going on a field trip.

• The student are going on a field trip.

• The students are going on a field trip.

• On a field trip going students is.

Which sentence below has a verb using active voice?

• The present was given to me.

• Andy ran the race last weekend.

• The race was run by Andy.

• The cake was eaten by Mr. Ezell.