Grammar/Word Quiz

Identify a verb in the sentence: The horse ran into the stables.

• Horse

• Ran

• Into

• Stables

Identify a verb in the sentence: She is going to the game later.

• She

• Is

• Game

• Later

Identify a verb in the sentence: We are leaving for the beach in two days.

• Are

• Beach

• In

• Two

Decide what punctuation is needed: Jason will be batting third in the line-up today; he is nervous.

• No change

• today,

• today -

• . And

Decide what punctuation is needed: After washing my car this weekend; I was exhausted.

• No change

• weekend:

• weekend.

• weekend,

Decide what punctuation is needed: I received a cat for my birthday, his name is Charlie.

• No change

• birthday;

• birthday:

• , so

An independent clause is a complete sentence.

• True

• False

Semicolons are used to join an independent and a dependent clause.

• True

• False

Identify a verb in the sentence: She reached down for the mop.

• reached

• down

• for

• mop

Identify a pronoun in the sentence: Emily baked cookies for her coworkers as a surprise.

• Emily

• her

• as

• surprise