English 1 LightUnit 1 Quiz review

Match each noun category with its description

• Any general noun

• Concrete

• Cannot be touched

• Proper

• A specific person, place or thing

• Abstract

• Can be touched

• Common

• Refers to a group of people or objects

• Collective

Match the following

• Refers to one item

• Plural

• Refers to more than one item

• Common

• A specific person, place, or thing

• Proper

• Any general noun

• Abstract

• Cannot be touched

• Singular

Match the CAPITALIZED NOUN with its description

• single, popular, concrete

• The DEER were all in my backyard

• singular, common, collective

• the SHIRT in the drawer is mine

• singular, common, concrete

• The church CHOIR will be singing on Sunday

• abstract, plural, common

• JEFF SMITH is aworld-famouss actor

• plural, common, concrete

• Some KINDS of dogs have big teeth

Match the following

• common, concrete, plural

• I have so much JOY when I read The Bible

• abstract, common, singular

• I am a member of the group CTW

• singular, common, abstract

• LORRAINE makes the best 5-flavored pound cakes

• collective, singular, proper

• All of my JEANS are too small

• Proper, concrete, singular

• The ostrich is only one TYPE of bird that cannot fly

A NOUN is a(an)

• Person, place or thing

• an action word

• describes something

Which words are nouns in the following sentence:

It is easy for a person to learn how to swim if he has a good swim coach.

• Easy, learn

• person, coach

• he, coach

Which is the participle in the following in the following sentence?

A FLYING BAT WAS SEEN DURING THE DAY

• Bat

• Flying

• Day

A verb used to describe a noun is called what?

• A relative pronoun

• An adjective

• A participle

What punctuation mark is needed in the following sentence?

Three states that begin with the letter A are Alabama, Alaska, and Arizona.

• quotation marks

• colon

• parentheses

• italics/underlining

Match each sentence with the punctuation mark needed. Use one answer twice

• italics/underlining

• Three of the desserts she made were cream cheese pie, German Chocolate cake, and Banana Split Icebox cake

• parenthesis

• The ARTICLE Two Brothers and a Dog in the magazine Nature's Helpers really interest me

• italics/underlining

• One of Veronica's favorite BOOKS as a child was Blubber

• quotation marks and italics/underlining

• I hope the students went to the library and checked out the BOOK Uncle Tom's Cabin

• colon

• Mesopotamia I hope I spelled that right is known as the cradle of civilization