Vocab & Grammar Quiz (12/01)

Identify pliable's part of speech in the following sentence:

The heat made the metal pliable.

Pliable is being used as a(n) ​ (a)  

• noun
• verb
• adjective

Choose the correct word to finish the sentence:

Jessica was so filled with joy from the news that she became ​ (a)   .

• stolid
• pliable
• tentative
• recede

Identify recede's part of speech in the following sentence:

The army was forced to recede due to the ambush.

Recede is being used as a ​ (a)  

• adjective
• adverb
• verb
• noun

Choose the correct word to finish the sentence:

Jorge didn't have his parents' permission, so the plans to go to the game were ​ (a)   .

• pliable
• tentative
• recede
• stolid

Identify the change that needs to be made in the following sentence:

Mariana Jaime's best friend needs a pencil.

• Delete the apostrophe in Jaime's

• Change the . to a ?

• Add a hyphen (-) between best friend

• Add commas after Mariana and friend.

Create your own example of a base word, comparative, and superlative. Type them and separate them with commas.

Example: good, better, best

Example 2: great, greater, greatest

You may NOT use these examples as your own answer.

Identify the change that needs to be made in the following sentence:

I just finished reading the book, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and I thought it was really good.

• Replace ", and" with a "."

• Underline the title of the book.

• Place quotations marks around the title of the book.

• Change the comma after book to a semicolon.

Identify the change that needs to be made in the following sentence:

He, to, wanted to go see Christmas lights on Saturday.

• Change wanted to needed

• Capitalize the L in lights

• Change to to two

• Change to to too

Write a sentence using the comparative: nicer

Write your own sentence exercising the rule of using commas to separate extra information.