Grammar Quiz 1

Which sentence is written correctly?

• "We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."

• "We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master".

• "we are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."

• "We are all apprentices in a craft where noone ever becomes a master."

Identify the part of speech of the underlined words in the sentence below:

Yay! We scored and luckily won the game in overtime!

• Noun

• Verb

• Adverb

• Preposition

Identify the part of speech of the underlined words in the sentence below:

Yay! We scored and luckily won the game in overtime!

• Preposition

• Interjection

• Adverb

• Verb

A comma splice is created when...

• two independent clauses are separated by a comma

• a sentence ends with a comma
• a comma is used in a list of items
• a comma is used to separate a dependent and independent clause

Connotation means...

• The literal meaning of a word
• The opposite of a word
• The emotion or feeling associated with a word

• The grammatical function of a word

Denotation means...

• the feeling associated with a word

• the actual meaning of a word

• sugarcoating the meaning of a word

• noting two or more complete sentences put together to form one long sentence

Identify the sentence structure of the following sentence:

We scored and luckily won the game in overtime.

• Simple Sentence
• Compound Sentence
• Complex Sentence
• Compound-Complex Sentence

Identify the sentence structure of the following sentence:

I like ice cream, but I also eat lots of vegetables.

• Simple Sentence
• Compound Sentence
• Complex Sentence
• Compound-Complex Sentence

Which sentence is written correctly?

• Bob and I had a soccer tournament this passed weekend.

• Bob and I had a soccer turnement this past weekend.

• Bob and me had a soccer tournament this past weekend.

• Bob and I had a soccer tournament this past weekend.

Identify the sentence structure of the following sentence:

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes master.

• Simple sentence
• Compound sentence
• Complex sentence
• Compound-complex sentence