English 8 PreTest

What do you call the nouns that CANNOT be perceived by our senses?

• abstract

• common

• concrete

• proper

Which of the following is considered an 'abstract noun'?

• chicken

• freedom

• girl

• rain

How many proper nouns are in the sentence?

'Amie watched a movie in SM Aura last Tuesday.'

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

What kind of verbal is used in the given sentence?

'Reading is her favorite activity.'

• gerund

• participle

• infinitives

What is the correct possessive form of the given noun?

'the capes of the magicians'

• magician's capes

• magicians' capes

• magicians cape's

Which word/s in the sentence is an example of a verbal noun that functions as an object of the preposition?
‘He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else.’

• good

• seldom

• anything else

• making excuses

What are "collective nouns?

• nouns that can be identified through one of the five senses

• nouns that cannot be perceived by any of our senses

• specific names of a person, place, animal thing, ideas, or events

• nouns that refer to some sort of group of people, animals, things, etc.

Which word in the sentence is an abstract noun?
‘Julia played chess with her brothers Toni and Mark last Tuesday.

• brothers

• chess

• Julia

• Tuesday

Which gender of noun refers to inanimate objects?

• common

• feminine

• masculine

• neuter

Which of the following is an example of demonstrative pronoun?

• his

• it

• this

• you