A Pre- Test too see how well they know grammar skills

1. Grammar Test 1
1. Find the adverb in the following sentence.
After the game, the disappointed players shook their heads sadly but
refused to accept defeat.
a. disappointed
b. sadly
c. after
d. shook
2. Which of the following sentences is correctly punctuated?
a. Everyone has special skills some people use them very well.
b. Everyone has special skills; some people use them very well.
c. Everyone has special skills and, some people use them very well.
d. Everyone has special skills; and, some people use them very well.
3. Identify the part of speech of the word that appears in all caps in
the sentence below.
The police ran AFTER the thief.
a. interjection
b. conjunction
c. preposition
d. verb
4. Which sentence is capitalized correctly?
a. I have shopped for clothes from the gap on the store's website.
b. i have shopped for clothes from the Gap on the store's Website.
c. I have shopped for clothes from the Gap on the store's website.
d. i have shopped for clothes from the gap on the store's website.
5. Which sentence is capitalized correctly?
a. Why don't we get together to watch the Super Bowl?
b. why don't we get together to watch the Super Bowl?
c. Why don't we get together to watch the super bowl?
d. why don't we get together to watch the super bowl?

2. 6. Adverbs answer all of the following questions except:
a. To what extent?
b. Which one?
c. When?
d. Where?
7. Identify the pronoun in the following sentence.
She was afraid of Hurricane Sandy.
a. Sandy
b. She
c. Hurricane
d. afraid
8. Which sentence uses the conditional mood?
a. Wade sings every Tuesday night.
b. Do you sing every Tuesday night, Wade?
c. I wish Wade would sing every Tuesday night.
d. Wade would sing every Tuesday night, if he was allowed.
9. Is the sentence below a run-on, fragment, or correct?
Teachers work hard to make sure students are learning, but
sometimes students don't appreciate the teacher's hard work.
a. Run-On
b. Fragment
c. Correct
10. The suffix -er means?
a. act or process
b. one who
c. can be done
11. My stomach was growling. I drove to Taco Bell to eat. What is the
best way to combine these sentences?
a. I drove to Taco Bell because my stomach was growling.
b. My stomach was growling so I drove to Taco Bell to eat.
c. I drove to Taco Bell to eat.
d. I was growling and I went to Taco Bell.

3. 12. I will have spent all my money by the time I'm done with this
shopping trip.
What tense is the sentence written in?
a. Simple future
b. Continuous future
c. Perfect future
d. Perfect continuous future
13. Choose the correctly punctuated sentence:
a. Vacuuming the living room, has always been my favorite chore.
b. Vacuuming the entire house takes hours.
c. The subject of vacuuming carpet correctly, has always interested me.
d. When my mother returned home she told me that she loves
vacuuming too.
14. Which of the following is active?
a. James threw the ball.
b. The cake was baked by my aunt.
c. Sweets, candies, and goodies.
d. Have you eaten that yet?
15. Put the verb into the correct form, present simple or past simple,
active or passive.
The park gates________________(lock) at 6.30 p.m. every evening.
a. locked
b. locking
c. locks
d. are locked
16. "General Wood does not think that I give quite enough credit to
the Rough Riders as compared to the regulars in this Guasimas fight,
and believes that I greatly underestimate the Spanish force and loss."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Identify the meaning of the prefix in the word UNDERESTIMATE.
a. Below
b. In
c. Around
d. Above

4. 17. Which one of the following sentenced uses a participial phrase
correctly?
a. Washed with my clothes, my cellphone no longer worked.
b. When I washed my cellphone with my clothes it no longer worked.
c. My cellphone no longer worked, washed with my clothes.
18. Identify the object pronoun in the following sentence.
The stars and planets are interesting to me.
a. are
b. planets
c. me
d. none
19. A series of letters placed in front of a word to form a new word is
called a suffix.
a. True
b. False
20. Which choice correctly punctuates and capitalizes the words in the
following sentence?
st patricks day comes once a year
a. St. Patricks day comes once a year.
b. St. Patrick's Day comes once a year.
c. St Patricks Day comes once a year.
d. st patrick's day comes once a year!
21. Where do you insert the commas in the following sentence?
My doctor who I've been seeing since I was born is going to retire.
a. After "My doctor"
b. Before "Since I was born"
c. Around "who I've been since since I was born"
d. Before "is going to retire"
22. They went to Hawaii for a vacation this year. They swims in the
ocean!
The word swims should be changed to....
a. swim
b. swam
c. swimmed
d. no change