Parts of Speech and Grammar Quiz
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In a story, Elijah described a beautiful sunset. Ava mentioned a tall, majestic tree. Noah talked about a fast, blue car. Which part of speech did they use to modify or describe nouns in their sentences?
A. Interjections
B. Conjunctions
C. Adjectives
D. Prepositions
William wrote a sentence in his English homework. In that sentence, which part expresses the action of William or relates William to other words in the sentence?
A. Predicate
B. Indirect Object
C. Subject
D. Direct Object
Abigail, Harper, and Mia are writing a story. They are confused about which pronoun to use as subjects, predicate nominatives, and objects in their sentences. Can you help them?
A. Intensive Pronouns
B. Personal Pronouns
C. Indefinite Pronouns
D. Reflexive Pronouns
Michael is writing a research paper and wants to indicate omitted words in a quotation. Which punctuation mark should he use?
A. Dash
B. Hyphen
C. Ellipsis
D. Parentheses
Oliver wrote a story in his English class. He added ‘ed’ to the base form of the verb in his story. Which verb tense did Oliver use in his story?
A. Present Progressive Tense
B. Simple Past Tense
C. Simple Future Tense
D. Simple Present Tense
Benjamin, Emma, and Aiden are participating in a race. If we want to determine who ran the fastest among them, which degree of comparison of modifiers would we use, typically formed by adding ‘est’ to the end of the modifier?
A. Positive Degree
B. Comparative Degree
C. Superlative Degree
D. None of the above
Abigail is writing a story and she wants to emphasize a strong emotion in one of her characters. Lily suggested that she should use italics. In which of the following situations should Abigail use italics as suggested by Lily?
A. To form the possessive of a singular noun
B. To indicate strong emotion
C. To italicize foreign words
D. To introduce a list after an independent clause
Emma, Samuel, and Aiden are writing a story. In their story, which part of speech is used as subjects, predicate nominatives, nouns of address, appositives, and objects?
A. Adjectives
B. Nouns
C. Verbs
D. Adverbs
Noah, Ethan, and James are writing an essay for their English class. In which of the following scenarios should they use a semicolon in their sentences?
A. When they want to separate items in a series
B. When they want to join two independent clauses
C. When they want to introduce a list after an independent clause
D. All of the above
In a group project, Ava started the presentation with a phrase. The first word she used was usually a part of speech that can also be used singly as a modifier. What part of speech did Ava use?
A. Nouns
B. Prepositions
C. Verbs
D. Adjectives
Maya wrote a sentence in her essay and wants to express strong emotion at the end of it. Which punctuation mark should she use?
A. Question Mark
B. Exclamation Point
C. Comma
D. Period
Ethan, Charlotte, and Liam are visiting a city. They see a sign that says ‘Welcome to New York’. According to English grammar, what type of noun is ‘New York’ that names a specific place and is capitalized?
A. Abstract
B. Proper
C. Common
D. Collective
Aiden wrote a sentence on the board. Nora noticed that it expressed a complete thought and ended with a period. Mason was curious to know, what type of sentence did Aiden write?
A. Declarative
B. Interrogative
C. Exclamatory
D. Imperative
Arjun, Liam, and Elijah are playing a game of catch. Which type of pronoun would you use to show how the actions of Arjun, Liam, or Elijah affect him during the game?
A. Reflexive Pronouns
B. Indefinite Pronouns
C. Relative Pronouns
D. Demonstrative Pronouns
Scarlett, Zoe, and Henry are writing a story together. They want to join equal words, phrases, or clauses. They know they can use ‘and’ and ‘but’. Which type of conjunction should they use?
A. None of the above
B. Conjunctive Adverb
C. Correlative
D. Coordinate