Week 8 Unit 2, Lesson 1 Word Analysis Quiz

1. Which of these is the comparative form of an adjective?

• tighter
• tightly
• tighten
• tightening

2. Which word fits best in this sentence? That is the ____________ bird I have ever seen.

• strangely
• stranger
• strange
• strangest

3. Which of these is an example of an irregular comparative adjective?

• kinder
• worse
• slowly
• tallest

4. Which of these is an example of an irregular superlative adjective?

• poorest
• selfish
• least
• wider

5. Look at this range of meaning word line. Which answer would fit best in the blank? run ____________ walk stand

• halt
• crawl
• jog
• fly

6. Identify the part of speech of all the words below. sooner highest more rapidly most patiently

• nouns
• adjectives
• verbs
• adverbs

7. Which word best completes the sentence below? My younger cousin's bike is __________________ than mine, even though it is older.

• best
• more better
• better
• bester

8. Identify the synonyms in the sentence below. Jamal had the strangest day, followed by the most bizarre dreams.

• strangest - most bizarre
• day - dream
• strangest - day
• bizarre - dreams

9. Which word is correctly divided by syllables?

• ca / lmer
• lo / ud / est
• soon / er
• bett / er

10. Choose the correct superlative form of the bolded word. In our class, Grace missed the (few) problems on the math test.

• fewer
• fewest
• most fewest
• more few