Language Arts 700 - Unit 9 (Alternate Test Questions)

Complete the sentence:

A sentence that asks a question is called a(n) _______ sentence. (HINT: It ends in a ?)

• Interrogative

• Declarative

• Exclamatory

Complete the sentence:

The most common type of English sentence is the _____ sentence. (HINT: It ends in a .)

• Interrogative

• Declarative

• Exclamatory

Complete the sentence:

The basic structure of communication is the _______.

• sentence

• word

• paragraph

Complete the sentence:

An incomplete sentence is called a(n) _______.

• comma splice

• fragment

• interjection

Complete the sentence:

Two complete sentences incorrectly joined by a comma make a(n) _______.

• comma splice

• fragment

• interjection

Complete the sentence:

A sentence having excessive coordination with and or so is called _____ sentence.

• comma splice

• fragment

• run-on

Complete the sentence:

The limerick and the tongue twister are two types of ________ verse.

• free

• nonsense

• serious

Complete the sentence:

A paragraph in which the topic sentence comes first is an example of the ____ sentence.

• deductive

• indeductive

Complete this sentence:

The clear, distinct pronunciation of speech sounds is called _______.

• volume

• pitch

• enunciation

Complete this sentence:

The correctly spelled word is ______.

• comulutive

• medetative

• repetition

• atheletics