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8th Grammar Units 1-4 TEST 2020

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 29mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Identify the interrogative sentence.

a)

Are you looking for a book to read?

b)

Try reading a book by George Orwell.

c)

The Cincinnati Reds were the first professional baseball team.

d)

What a game!

2.

Identify the imperative sentence.

a)

Are you looking for a book to read?

b)

Try reading a book by George Orwell.

c)

The Cincinnati Reds were the first professional baseball team.

d)

What a game!

3.

Identify the declarative sentence.

a)

Are you looking for a book to read?

b)

Try reading a book by George Orwell.

c)

The Cincinnati Reds were the first professional baseball team.

d)

What a game!

4.

Identify the exclamatory sentence.

a)

Are you looking for a book to read?

b)

Try reading a book by George Orwell.

c)

The Cincinnati Reds were the first professional baseball team.

d)

What a game!

5.

What type of sentence? She was a leading mystery writer in the twentieth century.

a)

interrogative

b)

imperative

c)

declarative

d)

exclamatory

6.

What is the subject and verb of the following sentence? Here is a book about language. (Write them with the subject first then the verb with no commas.)

(a)  

7.

Subject and verb: What sport did Hank play?

(Write the subject first then the verb with no commas.)

(a)  

8.

Subject and verb: Always do your best.

(Write the subject first then the verb with no commas.)

(a)  

9.

Subject and verb: Decorated with intricate designs, the wedding cake was a beautiful centerpiece.

(Write the subject first then the verb with no commas.)

(a)  

10.

Subject and verb: Andre did paint and rearrange the living room. (Write the subject first then the verb with no commas.)

(a)  

11.

Identify the red font part of the sentence: The Blue Angels is the Navy's flight demonstration squadron.

a)

Simple Subject

b)

Simple Predicate

c)

Complete Subject

d)

Complete Predicate

e)

Complement

12.

Identify the red font part of the sentence: The Blue Angels is the Navy's flight demonstration squadron.

a)

Simple Subject

b)

Simple Predicate

c)

Complete Subject

d)

Complete Predicate

e)

Complement

13.

Identify the red font part of the sentence: The Blue Angels is the Navy's flight demonstration squadron.

a)

Simple Subject

b)

Simple Predicate

c)

Complete Subject

d)

Complete Predicate

e)

Complement

14.

Identify the red font part of the sentence: The Blue Angels is the Navy's flight demonstration squadron.

a)

Simple Subject

b)

Simple Predicate

c)

Complete Subject

d)

Complete Predicate

e)

Complement

15.

Identify the red font parts of the sentence: Some of the aviators are sailors and some of the aviators are marines.

a)

Simple Subjects

b)

Simple Predicates

c)

Complete Subjects

d)

Complete Predicates

e)

Complements

16.

Identify the red font parts of the sentence: Some of the aviators are sailors and some of the aviators are marines.

a)

Simple Subjects

b)

Simple Predicates

c)

Complete Subjects

d)

Complete Predicates

e)

Complements

17.

Identify the red font parts of the sentence: Some of the aviators are sailors and some of the aviators are marines.

a)

Simple Subjects

b)

Simple Predicates

c)

Complete Subjects

d)

Complete Predicates

e)

Complements

18.

Click on all the words that are part of the Subject--Verb-Complement for the following sentence: The team performs many shows every year.

a)

team

b)

performs

c)

many

d)

shows

e)

year

19.

Click on all the words that are part of the Subject--Verb-Complement for the following sentence: Their shows are very exciting.

a)

shows

b)

are

c)

Their

d)

exciting

e)

very

20.

Click on all the words that are part of the Subject--Verb-Complement for the following sentence: The man on the team caught the ball on the ground.

a)

man

b)

caught

c)

ground

d)

ball

e)

team

21.

Identify the following: Hippocrates lived in ancient Greece and wrote over seventy books on diseases of the human body.

a)

Sentence

b)

Fragment

c)

Run-on

22.

Identify the following: He proposed the idea that disease is caused by lifestyle, environment, and diet, he did not think the gods caused disease.

a)

Sentence

b)

Fragment

c)

Run-on

23.

Identify the following: Plato and Aristotle were contemporaries of Hippocrates.

a)

Sentence

b)

Fragment

c)

Run-on

24.

Identify the following: Hippocrates, known as the Father of Modern Medicine.

a)

Sentence

b)

Fragment

c)

Run-on

25.

Identify the following: Hippocrates pioneered the study of the symptoms of a disease, his was a rational and gentile approach to the patient.

a)

Sentence

b)

Fragment

c)

Run-on

26.

Choose the correct form.

a)

He wrote during the Romantic age.

b)

He wrote during the romantic Age.

c)

Neither

27.

Choose the correct form.

a)

My Cousin Vinny went to the store.

b)

My cousin Vinny went to the store.

c)

Neither

28.

Choose the correct form.

a)

He met with the Hon. Samuel Alito.

b)

He met with the Honorable Samuel Alito.

c)

Neither

29.

Choose the correct form.

a)

the Taylorville Breeze Courier

b)

the "Taylorville Breeze Courier"

c)

Neither

30.

Choose the correct form.

a)

25 of the six hundred people

b)

25 of the 600 people

c)

Neither

31.

Choose the correct form.

a)

South of town

b)

south of town

c)

Neither

32.

Choose the correct form.

a)

F.B.I. investigation

b)

FBI investigation

c)

Neither

33.

Choose the correct form.

a)

Hank purchased a Samsung Phone

b)

Hank purchased a samsung phone.

c)

Neither

34.

Choose the correct form.

a)

Hank was caught in a sudden Spring shower.

b)

Hank was caught in a sudden spring shower.

c)

Neither

35.

Choose the correct form.

a)

We visited uncle Kenny and aunt Donna.

b)

We visited Uncle Kenny and Aunt Donna.

c)

Neither

36.

Which one uses the correct punctuation?

a)

"Was only one-fourth of the cake eaten?" questioned Mrs. Henry.

b)

"Was only one-fourth of the cake eaten" questioned Mrs. Henry?

37.

Which one uses the correct punctuation?

a)

"The sparkling Christmas tree glittered impressively in the foyer of The Grand Hotel," said Parker.

b)

"The sparkling Christmas tree glittered impressively in the foyer of The Grand Hotel." said Parker.

38.

Which one uses the correct punctuation?

a)

Make sure to read the chapter entitled "Who is Really on First."

b)

Make sure to read the chapter entitled Who is Really on First.

39.

Which one uses the correct punctuation?

a)

We visited the following states on our vacation: California, Utah, and Arizona.

b)

We visited the following states on our vacation - California, Utah, and Arizona.

40.

Which one uses the correct punctuation?

a)

Mrs. Jones asked the class, "Who said the following: 'Who is on the Lord's side?'"

b)

Mrs. Jones asked the class, "Who said the following: 'Who is on the Lord's side'?"

41.

Pick the three items that should be placed in italics.

a)

Titles of magazines

b)

Titles of songs

c)

Titles of paintings

d)

Names of ships

e)

Names of poems

42.

Pick the two ways to join clauses to correct a run-on sentence.

a)

use a comma and coordinating conjunction

b)

put a period between the two

c)

use a semicolon

d)

eliminate one of the clauses

43.

True or False: The subject always goes on the left side of a diagram.

a)

True

b)

False

44.

True or False: A sentence may have only one subject and one verb.

a)

True

b)

False

45.

True or False: Objects of a preposition may be the subject of a sentence.

a)

True

b)

False

46.

True or False: A complete subject includes the simple subject and any words that modify it.

a)

True

b)

False

47.

True or False: Imperative sentences often employ the understood you as the subject.

a)

True

b)

False

48.

True or False: The title of a magazine article is placed in italics.

a)

True

b)

False

49.

True or False: Complements are words that finish the thought of the verb.

a)

True

b)

False

50.

True or False: A group of words do not have to form a complete thought in order to be a complete sentence.

a)

True

b)

False