HMH Grammar Practice Module 1 Test

Classify this type of sentence:

Why are plastic bags so harmful to sea creatures?

• Interrogative

• Imperative

• Exclamatory

• Declarative

Classify the type of sentence:

Pick up your litter and save the sea creatures!

• Imperative

• Delcarative

• Exclamatory

• Interrogative

Classify the sentence type:

This is fun!

• Exclamatory

• Interrogative

• Declarative

• Imperative

Identify the italicized part of the sentence:

This important composer was a gifted pianist.

• Complete Subject

• Complete Predicate

• Complete Adjective

• Complete Verb

Identify the italicized part of the sentence:

Debussy grew up in Paris.

• Complete Subject

• Complete Predicate

• Complete Adjective

• Complete Person

Identify the compound verbs in this sentence:

My cat sleeps behind the books on the shelf and looks like a dustball after.

• sleeps, looks

• books, dustball

• behind, like

• cat, books

Identify the compound subjects in this sentence:

Watering and weeding kept me busy all summer.

• watering, weeding

• me, summer

• kept, busy

• and, all

Correct the run-on sentence:

High waves from the storm batter the coast, they can cause severe damage to beaches and homes near the shore.

• Sentence is already correct.

• High waves from the storm batter the coast and can cause severe damage to the beaches and homes near the shore

• High waves from the storm batter the coast and they can cause severe damage to beaches and homes near the shore.

Identify if the following is a sentence or sentence fragment:

a plumber repaired the leaky faucet in the kitchen

• sentence

• fragment

• comma splice

• run-on

Identify if the following is a sentence or a fragment:

after running as hard as she could for several minutes

• sentence

• fragment

• comma splice

• run-on