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WorksheetsGrade 8 Quiz 1 4th Quarter
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 18mins
True or false?
A modifier is a word, phrase, or clause that describes a word or makes its meaning more specific.
True
False
What type of modifier is the bold text?
Leave the room quietly.
An adjective
An adverb
When a modifier is an adverb, it modifies:
a noun or a pronoun
a verb, an adjective, or another adverb
Select the one with a prepositional-phrase modifier:
Don't tell me what to do.
He's got a face like a box of frogs.
A modifier is called "misplaced" when:
it is placed too close to the word it modifies
it is placed too far away from the word it modifies
Hannah kept all her medicine in the medicine cabinet that had been prescribed to her.
Which sentence is written MOST clearly and correctly?
Gasping after the 5-mile run in the summer sun, the bottle of cold water quenched Donovan's thirst.
Gasping after the 5-mile run in the summer sun, Donovan quenched his thirst with a bottle of cold water.
Gasping after the 5-mile run in the summer sun, Donovan's thirst was quenched with a bottle of cold water.
Find the misplaced modifier in this sentence: Amazingly, the man ran down the stairs in a leg cast.
amazingly
down the stairs
in a leg cast
the man ran
Which sentence has the correctly placed modifier?
In the sweatsuit, that boy runs around the track.
That boy runs around the track in the sweatsuit.
That boy in the sweatsuit runs around the track.
Around the track that boy runs in the sweatsuit.
