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Grammar Pre-Test

Last updated almost 6 years ago
35 questions

Parts of Speech

Directions: Identify each of the underlined words as one of the following: Noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, or adverb

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Knowing how to dribble is important to basketball.

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If a person can shoot well, they can score points.

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Communication skills are essential in basketball so players know what to do.

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A serious player will pride himself on mastering basic skills.

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Caring teammates will support each other during games.

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Equally caring fans will not give up on their team in hard times.

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Professional players know that they may be on television in years to come.

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Television interviews and endorsements will be common.

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It should be understood that these players are not professional actors.

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Not all those who play basketball should expect to become famous.

Common and Proper Nouns

Directions: Read each sentence, identify if the underlined noun is a Common noun or a Proper noun.

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You can find an elephant on some money in India.

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Our money shows famous people and buildings from history.

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Andrew Jackson appears on our twenty-dollar bill.

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The back of this bill shows the White House.

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Other countries show many different pictures.

Possessive

Directions: Which word in parenthesis has the correct use of an apostrophe?

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Here is the violin and here is (it’s, its) case.

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Have you seen (Jason’s, Jasons’, Jasons) hat?

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The (neighborhoods, neighborhood’s, neighborhoods’) rules are different for kickball.

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My (friend’s, friends’, friends) favorite game is kickball.

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We play in (Cathy’s, Cathys’, Cathys) backyard.

Pronouns

Directions: Type the pronoun in each sentence in the box provided below the sentence.

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I look for stars on a clear night.

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They twinkle brightly in the night sky.

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Mom shows me certain groups of stars.

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The Big Dipper has seven stars in it.

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The stars seem to change as our Earth spins.

Pronoun Usage

Directions: Identify each sentence as on of the following: Correct or Incorrect

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We and they are editing our essays together.

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She found out we graded her essay.

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Us English scholars should stick together.

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Him and I have finished editing our papers.

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Every single one of them have an essay to edit in class.

Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

Directions: Choose the correct pronoun from the parentheses.

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Our college should change (its, their) policy about withdrawals.

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Coaches Espinoza and Calhoun coach different sports. Neither Espinoza nor Calhoun scheduled (her, their) team for the gym this afternoon.

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No one has offered to let us use (his, their) home for the department meeting.

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If I ever find my glasses, I think I’ll have (it, them) replaced.

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General Motors will probably recall most of (its, their) four-wheel-drive vehicles.