English II Honors Grammar Final Review

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Tricky Singular

,

(b) Tricky Plural

• Phenomena
• Media
• Medium
• Datum
• Phenomenon
• Criterium
• Criteria
• Data

Neither and either are

• tricky singulars

• tricky plurals

Prepositional phrases are needed to figure out subject verb agreement

• True

• False

Eliminating interrupters can help with subject verb agreement

• True

• False

When EITHER/NEITHER are paired with NOR/OR, the word that _____ the phrase determines the verb

• Starts

• Ends

Recent _____ in my life include getting an ‘A’ on a math test and parallel parking on a hill perfectly.

• Phenomena

• Phenomenon

A list of achievable goals ____ posted on my desk at work as a daily reminder

• is

• are

Either the chicken or the meatballs ____ going to go bad soon, so let’s take a look before we make dinner.

• are

• is

The car next to our bicycles ____ way over the line.

• is

• are

What is the prepositional phrase in the sentence:
The whiteboard markers from English class smell gross.

(a)