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Mr. K grammar
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Judy and her dog run on the beach every morning. "Judy and her dog" is what part of the sentence? | subject |
| Tina offered Antonio one of her mother's homemade oatmeal cookies but only an Oreo would satisfy his sweet tooth."Oreo" is a concrete and what other type of noun? | proper noun |
| Tina offered Antonio one of her mother's homemade oatmeal cookies but only an Oreo would satisfy his sweet tooth."cookie" is a concrete and what other type of noun? | common noun |
| Which is correct? The Jones' car is blue.The Jones's house is on Fourth Street.This is called? | Jones', plural possessive |
| The following are examples of? boy = boy's cap, girl = girl's jumprope, bird = bird's feather, mouse = mouse's tail | singular possessive |
| "The book, including all the chapters in the first section, are boring." What grammatical concept is incorrect here? | subject/verb agreement |
| "The storm rose so quickly that the road crews could not do nothing about clearing the highways." What grammatical error occurs in this sentence? | double negative |
| "We underrated ourselves before the race." "The cat washed herself carefully with her tongue." What type of pronoun is represented in the above examples? | reflexive pronoun |
| "The black dog is older than the white dog." "My house is bigger than my sister's house." "The yellow hat is more expansive than the green hat." What type of adjective is represented in these examples? | comparative adjective |
| "The black dog is the biggest." "The house at the end of the street is the nicest." "My mother's pizza is the best." What type of adjective is represented in these examples? | superlative adjective |
| "During the dinner conversation, Clifford, the messiest eater at the table, spewed mashed potatoes like an erupting volcano." What grammatical concept is represented as a result of the placement of commas? | appositive |
| "Bob and I read the book." "I" in this sentence is what type of pronoun? The rest are: you, he, she, it, we, they, who and whoever. | nominative (subject) pronouns |
| "Cousin Eldred gave me a trombone." "Take a picture of him, not us! "me" and "him" are which type of pronoun? The rest are: her, him, it, me, them, us, and you. | objective pronouns |
| "The red basket is mine." "Yours is on the coffee table.""mine" and "yours" are which type of pronoun? | possessive pronouns |
| "I get worried when the neighbors let their dog out." "The dog goes wild, and he always messes up my front yard." "neighbors" is to their, "dog" is to he, making "neighbors" and "dog" examples of what grammatical concept? | pronoun antecedant |
| "I like bunnies."Which type of of the 4 main sentence types does this represent? | declarative sentence |
| "Do you like bunnies?" Which type of of the 4 main sentence types does this represent? | interrogative sentence |
| "I can't get enough of bunnies!" Which type of of the 4 main sentence types does this represent? | exclamatory sentence |
| "Feed my bunny." Which type of of the 4 main sentence types does this represent? | imperative sentence |
| The mark a writer uses to form a contraction and to show possession. | apostrophe |
| "There was only one question left to answer: who had sent her the first warning?" "The children were asked to bring certain supplies the next day: crayons, scissors, and ribbon." "Dear Sir or Madam:" These three are correct examples of how to use what? | colon |
| "Twelve workers started the project; only five remain." This is correct usage of what grammar mark? | semi colon |
| Movies, TV shows, magazines and books are all titles that are? | titles underlined (when writing) and italicized (when typing) |
| TV episodes, poems, chapters, and magazine articles are examples of titles that are? | titles in quotes |
| "Some students like to study in the mornings.""Juan and Arturo play football every afternoon." These are examples of declarative and what other type of sentence? | simple sentence (same as independent clause) |
| "I tried to speak Spanish, and my friend tried to speak English." "Alejandro played football, so Maria went shopping." Both of these sentences are examples of declarative and what other type of sentence? | compound sentence |
| A group of words that contains a subject and verb and expresses a complete thought. An _________ clause is a sentence."Jim studied in the Sweet Shop for his chemistry quiz." | independent clause |
| "We are running tonight". "running" is the main verb. "are" is what type of verb? | helping verb |
| "During the afternoon, my cats are content to nap on the couch." "A ten-item quiz seems impossibly long after a night of no studying." "Are" and "seems" are what type of verb? | linking verb |
| "Send them my love." "Sarah has great taste in clothes." "love" and taste" are what type of noun? | abstract noun |
| student, dog, computer, and hair are what type of noun? | concrete noun |
| Judy and her dog run on the beach every morning. "run on the beach every morning" is what part of the sentence? | predicate |
| A ________ clause is a group of words that contains a subject and verb but does not express a complete thought. "When Jim studied in the Sweet Shop for his chemistry quiz...." A ____ clause can't be a sentence. | dependent clause |
| Adjectives _______ nouns and adverbs _______ verbs - in other words, they change the meaning. | modifier |
| _______ phrases are short phrases that appear at the beginning of a sentence or the end of the sentence: Looking at the recent issue of Cosmo, the man who always sits in the back of the bus began to hum. | participial phrase |
| Regular verbs consist of three main parts: the root form (play), the past (played), and the past participle (played). _____ verbs do not follow this pattern - here is an example: ring, rang, has rung. | irregular verb |
| These two sentences show ______ _______. Mary likes hiking, swimming, and bicycling.Mary likes to hike, to swim, and to ride a bicycle. | parallel structure |
| Zippy and Maurice played soccer with a grapefruit pulled from a backyard tree.Zippy accidentally kicked Maurice in the shin. "Soccer" in #1 and "Maurice" in #2 are the ______ _______s. | direct object |
| The book on the bathroom floor is swollen from shower steam. The sweet potatoes in the vegetable bin are green with mold. "On the bathroom floor" and "in the vegetable bin" are called _____ _______s. | prepositional phrase |
| To finish her shift without spilling another pizza into a customer's lap is Michelle's only goal tonight. This sentence starts with an __________ phrase. | infinitive phrase |
| The exam was failed by half of the class. Half the class failed the exam. The first sentence is in the _______ voice, and the second is in the ________ voice. | passive and active |
| Every ______, without exception, ends in ing. But that doesn't mean everyword in a sentence with -ing is a _____. ____s must function as nouns. "Since Francisco was five years old, swimming has been his passion." | gerund |
| The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language. | syntax |
| Are these sentences compound or complex: When he handed in his homework, he forgot to give the teacher the last page. The teacher returned the homework after she noticed the error. | complex sentences |
| A ________ is an expression not used in formal speech. They are very similar to slang: dude, hot, "dumped" by his girlfriend. | colloquialism |
| “I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason.” “I cannot help it . . . I love her against reason." In the second sentence, in order to shorten it, the author used an _______. | ellipse |
| The fancy word for the greeting of a letter. | salutation |
| "Ouch, that hurt!" "Oh no, I forgot that the exam was today." "Hey!Put that down!" All three of these sentences contain an _________. | interjection |
| and, but, or, yet, for, nor, and so are called ___________ _________, and their job usually is to combine two independent clauses. | coordinating conjunction |
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