Grammar: Chapter 12 Test

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Fill in the blank: A(n) blank is a word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and some othe word in the sentence.

Preposition

What is the most common linking verb?

Be

Identify the linking verb in this sentence: The seeds of a watermelon become the source of a new crop.

Become

Identify the conjunction: Rabbits are born blind, but hares can see at birth.

But

What adverbs answer the question How?

Clearly, easily, quietly, slowly

What part of speech joins words or groups of words?

Conjunction

What type of pronoun are these? This, that, these, those

Demonstrative pronouns

Identify the adverb in this sentence: In 1815 a small boy excitedly reported the discovery of gold in Georgia.

Excitedly

What type of pronoun are these? Anybody, each, either, none, someone, one, etc.

Indefinite pronouns

Fill in the blank: A(n) blank is an exclamatory word that expresses strong emotion. A(n) blank has no grammatical relationship to the rest of the sentence.

Interjection

What part of speech shows strong feeling?

Interjection

What type of pronoun are these? Who Whom What Which Whose

Interrogative pronouns

Identify the prepositional phrases in this sentence: The float was divided into compartments and filled with gasoline.

Into compartments With gasoline

Identify the linking verb in this sentence: The watermelon is native to Africa.

Is

What is the action verb in this sentence? Mix the ingredients slowly.

Mix

Identify the adverb in this sentence: Many Cherokees can never forget the harsh treatment suffered by their ancestors.

Never

What adverbs answer the question How often?

Never, always, often, seldom

Is the word in parentheses used as a preposition or an adverb? A man with a pistol (in) his hand answered the door.

Preposition

What adverbs answer the question To what extent?

Very, too, almost, so, really

What questions do adverbs answer?

Where? When? How? How often? To what extent?

Identify the helping verbs in these sentences: Have you ever visited Redwood National Park? Redwoods are classified with giant sequoias. Accordian to some experts, all of the forests outside the park will have disappeared by the 1990s.

Have Are Will

Fill in the blank: A(n) blank helps the main verb to express action or make a statement.

Helping verb

Fill in the blank: Here is a list of words commonly used as blank. Am, is, are, was, were, be, been, has, have, had, do, does, may, might, must, can, could, shall, should, will, would

Helping verbs

What adverbs answer the question Where?

Here, there, away, up, inside

Identify the adverb in this sentence: How did you spend your vacation?

How

What type of pronoun are these? I, me, mine You, your, yours He, him, his She, her, hers It, its We, us, our, ours They, them, their, theirs

Personal pronouns

Identify the preposition in this sentence: The plane flew through the thick clouds.

Through

Fill in the blank: A(n) blank is a word that expresses action or otherwise helps to make a statement.

Verb

What part of speech shows action or helps to make a statement?

Verb

Identify the parts of speech of the words in parentheses in the following sentences: Levi Strauss (is) a (familiar) name in the outdoor clothing business. In 1853 (he) sailed to (California).

Verb Adjective Pronoun Noun

Fill in the blank: Blank may be used as a conjunction or as a preposition.

For

What are these words? Am, is, are, was, were, has been, have been, had been, will be, shall be, may be, might be, can be, should be, would have been

Forms of be

What part of speech names?

Noun

What part of speech takes the place of a noun?

Pronoun

Is the verb in this sentence a linking verb or action verb? Amy looked through the telescope.

Action

Fill in the blank: A(n) blank is a veb that expresses mental or physical action.

Action verb

What part of speech modifies a noun or pronoun?

Adjective

Fill in the blank: A(n) blank is a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.

Adverb

Is the word in parentheses used as a preposition or an adverb? He went (inside) and was amazed by the richness of the home.

Adverb

Is the word in parentheses used as a preposition or an adverb? The woman rode (off).

Adverb

What part of speech modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb!

Adverb

Identify the part of speech of the words in parentheses: Have you ever walked (away) into the wilderness (with) a pack on your back and (camped) under the stars?

Adverb Preposition Verb

Identify the interjection: Aha! I know the trick.

Aha

Identify the conjunction: Listened to the code and repeated it accurately

And

What are the coordinating conjunctions?

And, but, or, nor, for, yet

What is the action verb in this sentence? For a science project, Elena built a sundial.

Built

Identify the conjunction in this sentence and say whether it is correlative or coordinating: I want to go to the concert, but I don't have the money.

But Coordinating

Fill in the blank: A(n) blank is a word that joins words or groups of words.

Conjunction

Fill in the blanks: There are three types of conjunctions: blank, blank, and blank.

Coordinating Correlative Subordinating

What are the correlative conjunctions?

Either . . . Or Neither . . . Nor Both . . . And Not only . . . But also

What are three types of pronouns?

Indefinite, interrogative, demonstrative

Is the verb in this sentence a linking verb or action verb? We all felt excited before the experiment.

Linking

Fill in the blank: A(n) blank is a verb that does not show action but connects the subject with a word in the predicate.

Linking verb

Fill in the blank: The following verbs are also commonly used as blank. Appear, become, feel, grow, look, remain, seem, smell, sound, stay, taste

Linking verbs

Fill in the blank: The word blank is nearly always used as an adverb to modify a verb.

Not

Identify the prepositional phrases in this sentence: William Beebe descended to a depth of 3,028 feet.

To a depth Of 3,028 feet

Identify the conjunction in this sentence and say whether it is correlative or coordinating: Our class is recycling not only newspapers but also aluminum cans.

Not only . . . But also Correlative

What adverbs answer the question When?

Now, then, later, soon

Fill in the blank: The preposition never stands alone in a sentence. It is used with a noun or pronoun called the blank of the preposition.

Object

Identify the interjection: Oops! The glass slipped.

Oops

Identify the conjunction: Rain or snow

Or

Identify the interjection: Ouch! That hurts!

Ouch

What type of pronoun are these? My, mind Your, your His Her, hers Its Our, ours Their, theirs

Possessive pronouns

Is the word in parentheses used as a preposition or an adverb? The woman got (off) her horse.

Preposition

What part of speech relates a noun or a pronoun to another word?

Preposition

Fill in the blank: The following words are commonly used as blank. Aboard, above, after, along, around, about, across, against, among, at, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, beyond, by, down, during, except, for, from, in, into, like, of, off, on, over, past, since, through, throughout, to, toward, under, underneath, until, up, upon, with, within, without

Prepositions


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