Quiz 1

Choose the right Option

1.    The message of “Casey at the Bat” may be that --------------

•     baseball players shouldn’t let pitches go by.

•     baseball fans should trust the umpire.

• people couldn’t expect too much from their heroes

•    a ball game isn’t worth getting excited about.

Which word is most nearly opposite in meaning to tumult?

• commotion

•    pile

•    party

•   calm

    I am glad ________ laws against going hatless in public are no longer enforced.

• standard               

• archaic                     

• vernacular                      

• pidgin

    The term Super Bowl has ___________ that go far beyond a mere game.

• vernaculars              

• denotations               

• connotations                          

• idioms

The _________ of the word patriotism is “Love of one’s country.”

• semantics               

• denotations                           

• connotations             

• idioms

   Most newspapers follow the grammatical rules of _________ English.

• Standard           

• pidgin                         

• jargon                         

• connotative

The players can leave their equipment on the bus. Type the antecedent of the underlined word.

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Players

Don’t play the piano if it is not properly tuned. Type the pronoun and the antecedent.

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it-piano

Mount Fuji, a volcano, is in Japan. Type the proper noun and the common noun

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Proper noun (Mount Fuji- Japan)

Common noun (volcano)

He and she took a walk through a park. Type proper nouns of the underlined pronouns

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Ali - Jana- Dream Park