COM 101 Final

"When Professor Terry postponed the deadline for the writing assignments, smiles lit up the faces of the students, filling the room with happiness." Smiles and happiness are...

Count/Noncount nouns

The present perfect tense does what?

Describes a recent past event that still affects the present

A "tensed" verb is a verb in either the future or past tense form. True or false?

False

Conjunctive adverbs are adverbs, and, as if often the case with adverbs, they can't be moved around inside their clauses. True or false?

False

Nouns that begin in an s sound take only an apostrophe when they are followed by sake. True or false?

False

We can't use demonstrative pronouns for people, even when the person is identified. True or false?

False

According to the Ted Talk by Anne Curzan, what makes a word "real?"

If a community of speakers uses the word and knows what it means

One of the jobs of the subordinating conjunction is to reduce the importance of one clause so that a reader understands which of the two ideas is more important. True or False?

True

Question marks are often omitted in rhetorical questions. True or false?

True

Which of the following uses of the colon is incorrect? a. Do not capitalize the first word after colon unless the word is ordinarily capitalized b. When three or more sentences follow a colon, capitalize the first word after the colon c. Do not use a colon when listed items are incorporated into the flow of the sentence d. Use the colon to emphasize a single word of phrase at the beginning of a sentence.

Use the colon to emphasize a single word of phrase at the beginning of a sentence.

According to the Ted Talk, how does a word get into the dictionary?

We use it and keep using it

You separate clauses with a comma when...

You have a dependent clause followed by an independent clause

News style permits the double possessive if it meets which condition(s)...

the word after of must be an animate thing such as a person. the word before of has to refer only to a portion of the animate object's possessions

the most common use for a semicolon is...

between two independent clauses

the perfect tenses consist of the helping verb _______ in some form followed by a verb in the past participle

have

what does parallelism mean?

having equal grammatical unites after both parts of the conjunction

a simple subject in traditional grammar corresponds to a....

head noun

what is the main difference between an indefinite pronoun and an adjective?

indefinite pronouns can stand alone, and adjectives modify nouns

the verb "to answer" is in what form?

infinitive

Two common subject complements are adjectives and ...

noun phrases

the general rule for the use of numbers as a determiner is

numbers come at the beginning of a noun phrase, in front of any adjective

The main difference between back down and backdown is that..

one is a phrasal verb and the other is a noun

"The cat had lived many tragic lives." Had lived is what verb tense?

past perfect

"if you open up to somebody, you share your feelings with them." Open up to is a...

phrasal verb

the main difference between a possessive pronoun and a possessive adjective is that...

possessive pronouns replace or represent the noun, while possessive adjectives modify them

Which of the following is not one of the five subclasses of determiners? a. pronouns b. possessives used as adjectives c. ordinal numbers d. prepositions

prepositions

"Shelby has cleaned the kitchen several times this morning" What tense is "has cleaned" in?

present perfect

He said he often felt like a real "loser." I'm "photobombing" the heck out of that couple over there. According to The Best Punctuation Book, Period, the use of quotation marks in the two sentences is sometimes called...

scare quotes

______________ pronouns represent the hearer or reader of the sentence

second-person

The term linking refers to the relation between the complement of the linking verb and the ________

subject

A phrase is two or more words that do not contain the ________ pair necessary to form a_________.

subject-verb / clause

"Because Pamela didn't know how to dance salsa, she opted to skip the party." Because is an example of a .....

subordinating conjunction

Which of the following words is not a preposition? a. with b. about c. to d. the

the

what does the adverb clause movement test prove?

the independent clause beginning with the conjunctive adverb cannot be moved in front of the first independent clause because it is not an adverb

Which of the following is not true about modal verbs? a. they are sometimes called "defective" verbs b. they have the full range of verb forms c. they have both present and past forms, but nothing else d. they have no base form

they have the full range of verb forms

pronouns that literally replace specific nouns are called...

third-person pronouns

Adjective clauses (also called relative clauses) have only a single function

to modify nouns

All three types of progressive tenses are built in the same way: form of the helping verb be, followed by a verb in the present participle form. True or false?

true

The rules for using commas to separate clauses vary depending on the length of the clauses and whether the clauses are dependent or independent. True or false?

true

The verbs go and be share a peculiar feature: their past forms come from completely different words than their base form comes from. True or false?

true

When an infinitive phrase concludes a main clause, you need no punctuation to connect the two sentence parts. True or false?

true

modal verbs have no base form, no infinitive forms, no present participle forms, and no past participle forms. True or false?

true

Most phrasal verbs consist of a/an a. verb and adverb b. verb and adjective c. verb and article d. verb and pronoun

verb and adverb

Which of the following is not one of the four main interrogative pronouns? a. what b. which c. why d. who

why

the future perfect progressive tense is formed with ________ and the present participle of the verb....

will have been

what is the formula for identifying the passive voice?

"to be" + past participle

What is the main different between a gerund phrase and a participle phrase?

A gerund phrase will always function as a noun, while a present participle phrase describes another word in the sentence.

"It was an insanely hot afternoon in Gramercy Park." What is the role of the word insanely?

Adverb that modifies an adjective

Which of the following statements is true about adverbs: a. If a word can't be moved to a different position in the sentence, then b. Adverbs are words that modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. c. Adverbs are words that modify verbs, nouns, and adjectives. d. Adverbs that modify adjectives are mobile

Adverbs are words that modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs

What does a noun phrase include? a. Adjectives b. Articles c. Pronouns d. All of the above

All of the above

The future perfect tense deals with...

An action that begins in the present or in the near future and ends by some more distant point of time in the future

Which of the following sentences is incorrectly punctuated? a. Karen happily joined the conversation. b. My best friend (i.e., Mary) is leaving with me. c. And then she said, "What do you mean"? d. The job is full time.

And then she said, "What do you mean"?

which of the following rules for the use of a period is incorrect? a. If a sentence ends with a question mark, or exclamation point, the period is omitted. b. If a sentence ends with an abbreviation, the period used for the abbreviation also serves as the period for the sentence. c. An indirect question ends with a period, not a question mark. d. If a sentence ends with a parenthetical that is only part of a larger sentence, the period is places inside the closing parenthesis.

If a sentence ends with a parenthetical that is only part of a larger sentence, the period is places inside the closing parenthesis.

What does The the Test for Common Nouns demonstrate?

If the can be put immediately in front of a word and the result makes sense, then the word is a noun

What does The Will Test prove?

If you can put will in front of a word and the result is grammatical, then the word must be a verb

Which of the following is not part of the actual grammar of a sentence? a. Pronouns b. Conjunctions c. Prepositions d. Interjections

Interjections

The semicolon has two jobs...

It connects closely related independent clauses, and separates items in lists too long to be made sense with commas.

which of the following sentence is incorrectly punctuated? a. Why don't you just get out of here. b. You're 23 years old? c. Why did you yell charge!? d. All of the above. e. None of the above.

None of the above

Which of the following sentences is correctly punctuated? a. He said, "Come here". b. She said, "I always look 'fabulous.'" c. I wondered if it was true... I hoped it was. d. "This is my favorite food." She said.

She said, "I always look 'fabulous.'"

Which of the following sentences is correctly punctuated? a. "I could dance forever!," she said. b. She told me I could call her C.J.! c. I wanted to go shopping. (There was a watch on sale). d. He said, "My favorite word is 'serendipity'."

She told me I could call her C.J.!

Which of the following demonstrates an incorrect use of the apostrophe? a. Julie James's porch b. The hostess's cake c. The Smiths' house d. The bass's sound

The bass's sound

Which of the following uses of the colon is incorrect? a. I gave her the most important advice of all: don't open the door to strangers. b. Julio couldn't contain himself: "I love you," he blurted out. c. The iPad came with: headphones, a charger, and a manual. d. The following items are dangerous: matches, knives, and scissors.

The iPad came with: headphones, a charger, and a manual.

Which of the following is not true about indirect objects? a. The indirect object always occurs after the direct object. b. An indirect object can never be used as the sole object in a sentence. c. An indirect object can be turned into a prepositional phrase beginning with either to or for. d. We can only have an indirect object when there's also a direct object.

The indirect object always occurs after the direct object.

Which of the following statements about noun clauses is false? a. If a clause can be replaced by the pronoun it, then that clause is a noun clause. b. Noun clauses have flag words that signal the beginning of the clause. c. The two different types of noun clauses are called that type noun clauses and wh-type noun clauses. d. The two different groups of noun clauses don't behave the same way.

The two different groups of noun clauses don't behave the same way.

Which of the following statements is true about determiners? a. They include descriptive adjectives. b. They are modifiers that precede descriptive adjectives c. they include at least six subclasses d. all of the above

They are modifiers that precede descriptive adjectives

Which of the following statements is not true about modal verbs? a. They are helping verbs b. They are limited in how they can be used. c. They can never be used alone. d. They can only be used in combination with a following verb in the past form

They can only be used in combination with a following verb in the past form

What is the primary use of a conjunctive adverb?

To show how the ideas in the second of two closely related sentences relate to the meaning of the ideas in the first sentence

An exception to the basic rule for forming possessives states that a place, organization, or publication with a name that ends with a plural word ending in s takes only an apostrophe. True or false?

True

Be, do, and have are both stand-alone verbs and auxiliary verbs. True or false?

True

Most determiners and pronouns are exactly the same word. True or False?

True

The general rule for pronoun agreement states that...

a plural antecedent needs a plural pronoun

A/an_________ phrase combines a noun and a participle with any accompanying modifiers

absolute

Participles have three functions in sentences. They can be components of multipart verbs or they can function as ______ or ______

adjectives or nouns

It is possible to have no determiners with: a. proper nouns b. uncountable nouns c. plural countable nouns d. all of the above

all of the above

What is one verb whose base form is completely different from its present form? a. be b. am c. are d. all of the above

all of the above

Which of the following statements is true about conjunctive adverbs? a. The ideas in the second sentence expand on the idea of the first sentence. b. The ideas in the second sentence are somewhat contrary to what you might expect to follow from the first sentence. c. The ideas in the second sentence spell out the consequences of the first sentence. d. All of the above.

all of the above

"The boy cried himself to sleep at night." boy is called the....

antecedent

Pronoun confusion is common when you have two _____ with the same _____

antecedents/gender

When you form multipart verbs, you use a combination of _________ and participles

auxiliary verbs

The future tense is formed by the present form of the helping verb will, followed by a form in its...

base form

What is the most common linking verb?

be

"Today, Professor Terry's class takes its first exam." Class would be classified as a...

collective noun

It is not correct to use a ________ to join two independent clauses without a coordinating conjunction

comma

If a sentence contains a single independent clause and one or more dependent clauses, it is called a...

complex sentence

"melinda went shopping yesterday; therefore, she didn't complete her chores at home." Therefore is an example of an....

conjunctive adverb

When the job of an adverb is to connect ideas, we call it...

conjunctive adverb

If you connect two subjects with a ______________, the second one must agree with the verb that follows

correlative conjunction

_____________________ can confuse pronoun agreement

correlative conjunctions

Oh, um, ah, well, and similar terms are always set off by commas. True or false?

false

We use the progressive tense for generalizations about habitual actions. True or false?

false

any form of "to be" constitutes the passive voice. True or false?

false

"The book is more interesting than the last one." The word more is an example of an...

intensifier

"My friends and I danced until dark." Danced is a transitive or intransitive verb?

intransitive

if the base form of a word is dig, and the past tense form is dug, the word is a regular or irregular verb?

irregular

what is a comma splice?

just using a comma to join independent clauses

If the verb can be used with a predicate adjective complement, then we know for certain that the verb is a/an

linking verb

A fragment occurs when you neglect to insert a ________ somewhere between the capital letter at the beginning and the end mark concluding the word group.

main clause

In traditional grammar, prepositional phrases are always

modifiers

Which of the following statements is false about interjections? a. they are used more in speaking than in writing b. they are followed by an exclamation mark c. they have no real grammatical value d. none of the above

none of the above

Which of the following statements is not true about prepositions? a. They are always bound together with their objects to form prepositional phrases. b. It is impossible to identify prepositions at the part-of-speech level. c. They are "little words" such as "over, under, from, by". d. None of the above

none of the above