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