By:

WIN THIRI MYINT

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Grammar and
Sentence
Structure
 1. zWhat purpose do nouns  2. Which pronoun best
usually serve in a sentence? Parts of Speech
completes the sentence?
 A) They indicate possession.  ……………..baked the
 B) They act as subject or cookies ourselves and ate
most of them.
object.
 A) She
 C) They intensify other nouns.
 B) Her
 D) They clarify when an
action occurs.  C) I

 D) We
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Parts of Speech
 3. Which verb phrase best  4. Identify the direct object in
completes the sentence? the following sentence:
By this time tomorrow, we My friends brought me a package
…………… in New York. of souvenirs from their trip to
Spain.
A) will have arrived
A) friends
B) have arrived
B) me
C) arrive
C) package
D) was arriving
D) trip
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Parts of Speech
5. Which of the following worser.
sentences is CORRECTLY
6. Which is the adverb in the
constructed?
following sentence?
A) Between my mom and dad, my
He carelessly sped around the
father is the oldest.
flashing yellow light.
B) Iran less than usual today.
A) Flashing
C) Henry's cat is more fatter than
B) Yellow
mine.
C) Around
D) After taking medicine, she felt
D) carelessly
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Parts of Speech
7. The following sentence contains an specialty.
error. How should it be rewritten?
He liked to cook and baking was his
specialty.
8. Identify the underlined part of speech in
A) He liked to cook, and baking was his
the following sentence: Anne and Peter
specialty.
drank their coffee languidly while they
B) He liked to cook so baking was his read the paper.
specialty.
A) Subordinating conjunction
C) He liked to cook; and baking was his
B) Coordinating conjunction
specialty.
C) Irregular verb
D) He liked to cook, baking was his
D) adverb
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9. Identify the prepositional phrase
in the following sentence. John
10. Identify the interjection in the
and Carol must drive through the
following sentence.
tunnel, but Carol is
claustrophobic. “Come here! Look! Our team won
the Super Bowl! Yay!”
A) must drive
E) Come here!
B) through the tunnel
F) Our team won
C) Drive through
G) Look!
D) But Carol is
H) Yay!
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Constructing Sentences

11. Identify the type of phrase underlined in the following sentence:

Dodging traffic, Rachel drove to work on back roads.

A) prepositional phrase
B) noun phrase
C) verb phrase
D) verbal phrase
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Constructing Sentences

12. Which of the following is a compound sentence?

A) The turtle swam slowly around the pond.
B) Alligators generally lie still, but they can move with lightning
speed.
C) Mice are most likely to come out at night after other animals
have gone to sleep.
D) Squirrels, to prepare for winter, gather and hide seeds and
nuts underground.
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 z and Types of Sentences
Clauses  The cat ran under the porch.
 Clauses-contain-subject and  Compound sentence-two or more
predicate independent clauses-no dependent
 clauses
Independent clause(main)-stand
alone as-sentence  The cat ran under the porch, and
 the dog ran after him.
The dog ate her homework.
 Complex sentence-one independent
 Dependent clause(subordinate)-
clause and dependent clause
cannot stand-start with-subordinating
conjunction, relative pronoun-  The cat, who is scared of the
incomplete dog, ran under the porch.
 Because the dog ate her  Compound-complex sentence-two or
homework more independent clauses and one or
 more dependent clauses
Simple sentence-only one
independent clause, one complete  The cat, who is scared of the
idea dog, rand under the porch, and
the dog ran after him.
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13. Which sentence includes an 14. The following sentence contains an

improperly placed comma? error. How should it be rewritten?
A) Ella, Cassie, and Cameron drove to Oak trees—with proper care—can
South Carolina together. grow taller than thirty feet; providing |
shade for people, shelter for animals,
B) Trying to impress his friends, Carl
and perches for birds.
ended up totaling his car.
A) Replace the dashes with commas
C) Ice cream is my favorite food, it is so
so cold
cold andand
creamy.
creamy. B) Remove the comma after people

D) Mowing the lawn, Navid discovered C) Insert an apostrophe at the end of

a family of baby rabbits. animals
D) Replace the semicolon with a
comma
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15. Which sentence CORRECTLY uses capitalization?

A) Robert and Kelly raced across the River in their small boats.
B) Ducks flying in a V-formation cross the Midwest in the fall.
C) The chairwoman of the board, Keisha Johnson, will lead
today’s meeting.
D) The senators from Virginia and Louisiana strongly favor the
bill.
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Common Language Errors

16. Which sentence in the following list is CORRECT in its subject

and verb agreement?
A) My sister and my best friend lives in Chicago.
B) My parents or my brother is going to pick me up from the
airport.
C) Neither of the students refuse to take the exam.
D) The team were playing a great game until the rain started.
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17. Which sentence in the following list is 18. Which sentence in the following list is
CORRECT in its pronoun and antecedent CORRECT in its pronoun and antecedent
agreement? agreement?
A) The grandchildren and their cousins E) Either my brother or my dad will bring
enjoyed their day at the park. their van to pick us up.
B) Most of the grass has lost their deep F) The university is having their tenth
color. fundraiser tonight.
C) The jury was relieved as their G) Alyssa and Jacqueline bought herself a
commitment came to a close. big lunch today.
D) Every boy and girl must learn to H) Each dog, cat, and rabbit has its own
behave themselves in school. bowl and blanket.
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Common Language Errors

19. The following sentence contains an error. How should it be rewritten?

Veronica attended cooking classes, and she goes to yoga classes too.
A) Veronica attends cooking classes, and she went to yoga classes too.
B) Veronica attended cooking classes, and she went to yoga classes too.
C) Veronica attended cooking classes; she goes to yoga classes too.
D) Veronica attended cooking classes. She goes to yoga classes too.
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20. The following sentence contains an error. How should it be rewritten?
Shelly achieved more at nursing school because she was going to bed earlier,
eating healthy food, and she started to stay home and study more.
A) Shelly achieved more at nursing school. She was going to bed earlier,
eating healthy food, and she started to stay home and study more.
B) Shelly achieved more at nursing school because she was going to bed
earlier, eating healthy food, and studying more.
C) Shelly achieved more at nursing school; she was going to bed earlier, eating
healthy food, and she started to stay home and study more.
D) Shelly achieved more at nursing school; she was going to bed earlier, and
she started to eat healthy food and studying more.
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Common Language Errors

21. Which of the following is CORRECTLY punctuated?

A) Since she went to the store.
B) The football game ended in a tie, the underdog caught up in the fourth
quarter.
C) The mall is closing early today so we'll have to go shopping tomorrow.
D) When the players dropped their gloves, a fight broke out on the ice hockey
rink floor.
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Common Language Errors

22. Which of the following sentences contains an error?

A) | invited fewer people to my birthday party this year.
B) The students asked the principle to postpone the meeting.
C) My sister baked cookies then asked me to help clean the kitchen.
D) She paints well even though she has no formal training.