English 1 test

When you go home today you can say, "Flocabulary _____ me about the irregular verbs!"

Taught

Which word is the adverb in the following sentence? The gray whale swam slowly through the ocean.

Slowly

What is the adjective in this sentence? The spooky ghost haunted the house?

Spooky =

Which of the following words is an adverb? Ridiculous, crazy, weird, strangely

Strangely

What word does the adverb modify in the following sentence? They grey whale swam slowly through the ocean.

Swam

What is an antecedent?

The word a pronoun replaces or refers to

Which word in the following sentence is a pronoun? After AMina and Pedro left, they called Robert at home

They

Which of the following words is a verb? Think, idea, intelligent, creatively

Think

What noun does the adjective describe in this sentence? The spooky ghost haunted the house?

Ghost

Which of the following words is an adjective? Green, color, rainbow, paint?

Green

Which is the correct adverb form of "happy"? Happy, happyly, happily, happiely

Happily

Liza needs to explain that she emailed Jeremiah. What should she say?

"I wrote an email"

Kelly tossed the toy bear to Marvin. How can Marvin describe what happened?

"She threw the bear"

D'Angelo and his brother went to hear the gospel choir sing. How can they tell their mother what happened?

"The choir sang."

To put a regular verb into the past tense, add

-ed

What letters come at the end of most past tense words?

-ed

What letters do adverbs commonly end with? -en, -ist, -er, -ly

-ly

In the sentence below, replace the word "Robert" with the correct pronoun. Robert didn't answer his phone because "Robert" didn't hear it ring.

He

What is an adjective?

A word that describes a noun

What is an adverb?

A word that describes verbs and adjectives

What part of speech can usually be changed into an adverb by adding -ly?

Adjective

Pronouns and antecedents must agree in ____. Gender, number, point of view, all of the above

All of the above - Gender, number, and point of view

What is a verb?

An action word

Choose the noun from the sentence that is an idea. Kira screamed with anger when her brother stepped on her foot.

Anger

Where does an adjective usually go in a sentence?

Before a noun

Choose the noun from the sentence that is a place. Jeremy and Maira loved their trip to Boston.

Boston

Yesterday, Monique tossed the basketball at Samantha, and Samantha _____ it.

Caught

What do you do to an irregular verb to put it in the past tense?

Change the spelling

Which of the following sentences contains a helping verb?

Kendra has chosen the game.

How do you pluralize the noun continent? Continent, continents, continentes, continenten

Continents

Which of the following words is an auxiliary or helping verb? Could, crave, carve, call

Could

True or False: There is one simple rule for putting irregular verbs into the past tense.

False

Which word in the following sentence is a verb? Plane, flew, through, air

Flew

Which word in the following sentence is incorrect? THat morning, the mother told her daughters to take his raincoats with them. Mother, her, his, them

His

A noun is a word for a person, place, thing, or ______.

Idea

If you can't make a noun plural just by adding "s" that noun is ____.

Irregular

Which word in the following sentence is incorrect? Lana told us that the papers were on the desk right where he had left it. - us, on, we ,it?

It

Read the sentence, and choose the proper noun. All the peasants brought presents to King George's birthday party. Peasants, presents, party, King George

King George

A pronoun is a part of speech that can replace a ____ in a sentence.

Noun

Which of the following is an irregular plural noun? Oxen, ghosts, bears, vampires

Oxen

Which of the following choices in NOT a type of adjective? Color, size, person, opinion

Person

Which kind of nouns can you experience with the five senses?

Person, place and thing nouns

Which word in the following sentence is an antecedent for the pronoun "it"? All afternoon, the phone rang, but Robert didn't hear it.

Phone

What kind of noun would you use to show you have more than one of something?

Plural noun

Which of the following words is an adjective? Run, love, pretty, or quickly?

Pretty

Which kind of noun is a specific name for a person, place or thing? Irregular, proper, plural, abstract

Proper

What is the adjective in this sentence? I really want the purple shoes I saw at the mall

Purple

Which word is the adverb in the following sentence? Silly Lilly ran quickly through Sicily.

Quickly

Which of the following words is a verb? Sneakers, shoelaces, run, quick

Run

Complete the following sentence with the correct pronoun. Before Camila falls asleep, _____ always reads a book. They, she, her, you

She

What noun does the adjective describe in this sentence? I really want the purple shoes I saw at the mall

Shoes

Which word in the following sentence is a verb? The choir sings many songs.

Sings

Which of the following words can be an adverb? Wall, upstairs, house, basement

Upstairs

What should you do to check if you have used the correct form of an irregular verb?

Use your eyes, ears and common sense.

Which word in the following sentence is a pronoun? Every July, we go to the beach.

We

What does a verb's tense tell you?

When something happened

Adverbs describe ________ and ______ an action happens.

When; where

Which of the following words is NOT a form of the verb "to be"? Was, is, were, will

Will