English Test 12
Dr. Will and Dr. Charlie
Mayo Clinic
William Bradford
Of Plymouth Planation
Identify each capitalized complement. Write DO for direct object, IO for Indirect object, PA for predicate adjective, and PN for predicate nominative. Everyone seemed HAPPY about the results of the election.
PA
Identify each capitalized complement. Write DO for direct object, IO for Indirect object, PA for predicate adjective, and PN for predicate nominative. Our new treasurer for this semester is FAITH.
PN
John Bunyan
Pilgrim's Progress
Jerome Kildee
Raccoons
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Don Meek
Sacred promise to brothers
Florence Nightingale
The Lady and the Lamp
Identify each capitalized word as noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. The idea of a vacation in the mountains sounds GOOD right now.
adjective
Identify each capitalized word as noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. The twins built a TREE house in the back yard of our new home.
adjective
Identify each capitalized word as noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. Would you please bring me THAT orange folder?
adjective
Identify each italicized phrase as ADJ for adjective or ADV for adverb. GROWING TIRED, the child climbed into his mother's lap.
adjective
Identify each italicized phrase as ADJ for adjective or ADV for adverb. The mobile home, DAMAGED IN THE STORM, was no longer livable.
adjective
Identify each capitalized clause as ADJ for adjective or ADV for adverb. Carlos is the boy who hit a home run AFTER WE CHANGED PITCHERS.
adverb
Identify each capitalized clause as ADJ for adjective or ADV for adverb. They mopped the hallway AFTER THE FLOOD WAS OVER.
adverb
Identify each capitalized word as noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. If you do not put the glass DOWN carefully, you might break it.
adverb
Identify each capitalized word as noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. They visited New Hampshire in the spring and New York LATER in the year.
adverb
Identify each capitalized word as noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. We must NOT quit when a task becomes difficult and we become discouraged.
adverb
Identify each capitalized word as noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. We waited for the pianist to finish playing the EXTREMELY difficult piece.
adverb
Identify each italicized phrase as ADJ for adjective or ADV for adverb. A school of porpoises swam swiftly AROUND THE DIVERS.
adverb
Identify each italicized phrase as ADJ for adjective or ADV for adverb. NEAR THE BARN stood a beautiful Appaloosa house.
adverb
Identify each italicized phrase as ADJ for adjective or ADV for adverb. Remove everything from the top OF YOUR DESK in preparation for the test.
adverb
Jeremiah jumped higher than (any) (any other) boy on his team.
any other
What punctuation mark precedes an abbreviation such as Jr. or Ph.D. that is written after a name?
comma
Identify the following sentences. Write S for simple, CD for compound, CX for complex, and CD-CX for compound-complex. It rained today before school started.
complex
Identify the following sentences. Write S for simple, CD for compound, CX for complex, and CD-CX for compound-complex. The girl who won the diagramming contest is my cousin.
complex
Identify the following sentences. Write S for simple, CD for compound, CX for complex, and CD-CX for compound-complex. They hurried, but we took our time.
compound
Identify the following sentences. Write S for simple, CD for compound, CX for complex, and CD-CX for compound-complex. While we are in school, we study hard; nothing worthwhile is easy.
compound-complex
Identify each capitalized word as noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. EITHER Katelyn OR Gabrielle will accompany you to the art gallery.
conjunction
Identify each capitalized word as noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. I took a walk along the beach AFTER I went swimming.
conjunction
For each sentence write N for not correct if there is an error (or errors) in capitalization. If there is no error, write C for correct. There are many good places to visit in the South.
correct
For each sentence write N for not correct if there is an error (or errors) in punctuation. If there is no error, write C for correct. A two-thirds majority is required for this election.
correct
When combining two sentences into a complex sentence, make one sentence into a(n) ______________clause.
dependent (subordinate)
The lumberjacks (drunk) (drank) hot coffee with their meals.
drank
TRUE OR FALSE: Begin a summary of an article by saying "this article was about..."
false
True-False: John Sager traveled over the dangerous Sante Fe Trail to California.
false
True-False: The five missionaries that were killed in Ecuador were trying to reach the Cayuse Indians.
false
Of the triplets, Brian is the (faster) (fastest) reader.
fastest
When you write the _____________draft of a paper, you should write as quickly as possible.
first
Label each group of words S (sentence), F (fragment), or RO (run-on sentence). Since they were not able to go yesterday.
fragment
Several in our group (has) (have) decided to help.
have
The one wearing the funny mask is (he) (him).
he
Taking another person's words, ideas, or arrangement of material and using the information without crediting the source is _________________
plagiarism
Identify each capitalized word as noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. IN SPITE OF the heat, we enjoyed a lively game of tennis.
preposition
Identify each capitalized phrase as PART for participial phrase or PREP for prepositional phrase. Stealthily, I lifted the lid FROM THE COOKIE JAR.
prepositional
Identify each capitalized phrase as PART for participial phrase or PREP for prepositional phrase. The public has been excited about the baby gorilla born AT THE ZOO.
prepositional
Identify each capitalized word as noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. Can you swim all the way ACROSS the lake?
prepostion
Identify each capitalized word as noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. I wonder which ONE of us he will choose to be captain.
pronoun
Identify each capitalized word as noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. The book THAT I told you about was written by a nurse during the Civil War.
pronoun
Identify each capitalized word as noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. Was this excellent program your idea, or was it HERS?
pronoun
Label each group of words S (sentence), F (fragment), or RO (run-on sentence). It was very sad everyone was crying.
run-on
Label each group of words S (sentence), F (fragment), or RO (run-on sentence). May we go we are ready.
run-on
Which part of a friendly letter tells to whom the letter is written?
salutation
I (seen) (saw) him when he was at the track meet.
saw
Label each group of words S (sentence), F (fragment), or RO (run-on sentence). Kylie and Brooklyn really were happy and joyful about winning.
sentence
Sara and (she) (her) do the best secretarial work.
she
Identify the following sentences. Write S for simple, CD for compound, CX for complex, and CD-CX for compound-complex. In front of the old farmhouse stood a boy in overalls.
simple
We have been (setting) (sitting) in the same desks for too long.
sitting
Write a statement of purpose for an informative paper; write a ______________for a persuasive paper.
thesis
True-False: George Washington Carver had been traded for a horse when he was an infant.
true
True-False: Jonathan Chapman is the man known in history as Johnny Appleseed.
true
True-False: The March girls gave away their Christmas breakfast.
true
The trail guide led (we) (us) boys to the campfire site.
us
Identify each capitalized word as noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. Some tasks SEEM harder than they actually are.
verb
How (good) (well) does Phil play shortstop?
well
Michael Faraday
Famous scientist
Isaac Watts
Father of English Hymnology
Identify each capitalized complement. Write DO for direct object, IO for Indirect object, PA for predicate adjective, and PN for predicate nominative. Grandmother sent US some homemade divinity candy.
IO
Thomas Edison
Light bulb
George Washington Carver
"A Boy Who Was Traded For a Horse"
Martin Luther
"A Mighty Fortress"
Rudyard Kipling
"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"
Gessler
"The Legend of William Tell"
D.L. Moody
American evangelist
Identify each capitalized complement. Write DO for direct object, IO for Indirect object, PA for predicate adjective, and PN for predicate nominative. Victor can hit the BULLS-EYE almost every time!
DO
Identify each capitalized complement. Write DO for direct object, IO for Indirect object, PA for predicate adjective, and PN for predicate nominative. The car in front of us swerved and hit a TREE.
DO
Abe Lincoln
Emancipation Proclamation
Sherlock Holmes
Detective
Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol
Robin Hood
Sherwood Forest
Identify each capitalized clause as ADJ for adjective or ADV for adverb. The car WHICH WAS RATHER OLD was demolished in the accident.
adjective
Identify each capitalized clause as ADJ for adjective or ADV for adverb. Trinity, WHO IS ALWAYS EARLY, is my cousin.
adjective
Identify each capitalized clause as ADJ for adjective or ADV for adverb. We bought a house THAT HAD BEEN OWNED BY A FRIEND.
adjective
Identify each capitalized word as noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. Patriots dumped tea into Boston harbor to protest BRITISH taxes.
adjective
Identify each capitalized word as noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. OUCH! I burned my finger on that hot pan.
interjection
Which two parts of your oral book report should be memorized?
introduction, conclusion
Either of the pens (is) (are) all right to use.
is
The trail to the mountaintop (lay) (laid) before us.
lay
They went shopping without Jocelyn and (I) (me).
me
For each sentence write N for not correct if there is an error (or errors) in capitalization. If there is no error, write C for correct. Many students have received Christ as their Savior and have grown in the lord.
not correct
For each sentence write N for not correct if there is an error (or errors) in capitalization. If there is no error, write C for correct. May is almost here, and soon the Pensacola Journal will contain travel hints for Summer vacations.
not correct
For each sentence write N for not correct if there is an error (or errors) in punctuation. If there is no error, write C for correct. We will take with us the following people Audrey, Leah, Stephanie, and Madeline.
not correct
For each sentence write N for not correct if there is an error (or errors) in punctuation. If there is no error, write C for correct. What poem begins with the line "I remember" asked the teacher.
not correct
Identify each capitalized word as noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. We built and painted a wooden BOAT in art class.
noun
Points within each section of an outline should be _____________in form.
parallel
Identify each capitalized phrase as PART for participial phrase or PREP for prepositional phrase. ADVERTISING CARS AT REDUCED PRICES, the dealer attempted to gain an advantage over his competitors.
participial
Identify each capitalized phrase as PART for participial phrase or PREP for prepositional phrase. STUFFED WITH FOOD, the crow could barely fly away.
participial
Identify each capitalized phrase as PART for participial phrase or PREP for prepositional phrase. The plane TRANSPORTING THE PRESIDENT finally arrived.
participial
The point of view you use to write a description is mental as well as _______
physical