GRADE 10 ASSESSMENT

1.The job of an introduction speech is to introduce your guest speaker briefly and create a welcoming, attentive ready-to-motivate-to-listen anticipation in the audience. What should you do in making an introduction speech?

• A. Be sure to get the correct pronunciation of the guest speaker from the speaker himself/herself and practice saying the name aloud.
• B. Touch on sensitive matters.
• C. Only get the speaker’s first name and his/her title if he/she has one.

2. An adjective can also be the head of a structure of modification. What are the modifiers of adjectives?

• A. qualifiers, adverbs, and nouns
• B. verbs, adjectives and prepositional phrases
• C. All of the above

3. An adverb can also be the head of a structure. Which of the following is included as its modifier?

• A. qualifiers
• B. adverbs
• C. nouns
• D. all of the above

4. Which word heads the adjective phrase in the sentence, "That old food tastes awfully bad."?

• A. food
• B. tastes
• C. awfully
• D. bad

5. Which word heads the adjective phrase in the sentence, "Students upset about the rising cost of tuition staged a rally."?

• A. upset
• B. about rising
• C. tuition
• D. staged

6. Which word heads the adjective phrase in the sentence, "This stone is the heaviest of all."?

• A. stone
• B. heaviest
• C. of all

7. In the phrase, “very environmentally safe”, very is a qualifier.

8. In the phrase, “very environmentally safe”, environmentally is an adjective.

9. The phrase “very environmentally safe” is an example of an adjective phrase with an adverb phrase modifying the adjective.

10. In the phrase, “unusually eagerly”, the head is unusually.