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Grammar Questions for Final Test Review
1. Recite the verb list.
2. What are two tests for a verb?
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2. a. Can it be done? (Can the subject perform the
3. What is a word that answers whom or what after the subject
action of ?ing)
b. Is it on the verb list?
3. Complement
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and verb?
What
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do adjectives modify?
What questions do adjectives answer?
What do adverbs modify?
What questions do adverbs answer?
What is the job of a conjunction?
Name the 6 coordinating conjunctions.
How can you recognize a subordinating conjunction?
Name the 4 correlative conjunctions.
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Nouns and pronouns
What kind, which one, how many, how much, whose
Verbs, adjectives, adverbs
Where, when, how, how often, to what extent
To connect
And, but, or, nor, for, yet
Followed by a subject & verb
Either—or, neither—nor, both—and,
not only—but also
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Interjection
Noun, pronoun, verb, adjective., adverb, preposition,
conjunction, interjection
Subject, direct object, indirect object, objective
complement, predicate nominative, appositive,
direct address, object of preposition
Noun or pronoun
A group of words containing a subject and a verb
Noun, adjective, adverb
Positive, comparative, superlative
Indicative, imperative, subjunctive
Imperative
Indicative
Subjunctive
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Present, present participle, past, past participle
Lie, lying, lay, have lain
Lay, laying, laid, have laid
Sit, rise, lie
12. Name the preposition list.
13. What part of speech shows excitement (e.g., oh, wow)?
14. Name the 8 parts of speech.
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15. 15.
Name 8 noun uses.
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What part of speech is the object of a preposition?
What is a clause?
What are the 3 kinds of dependent clauses?
Name the 3 degrees of comparison for adjectives/adverbs.
List the 3 moods of a verb.
Which mood is used with understood you?
Which mood is used for facts and questions?
Which mood indicates something unreal and should be used
after as if or as though?
List the four principle parts of a verb.
Lis
List the four principle parts of lie.
List the four principle parts of lay.
Of the verbs sit/set, rise/raise, lie/lay, which ones are
intransitive?
What pronoun case is used in front of a gerund when the
emphasis is on the action?
Name the three pronoun cases.
List 3 uses for nominative case.
31. List 5 uses for objective case.
32. What must a pronoun agree with?
33. In what three areas must a pronoun agree with its
antecedent?
28. Possessive case
29. Nominative, objective, possessive
30. Subject, nominative case, complement of to be when
it does not have a subject
31. Direct object, indirect object, object of preposition,
subject of infinitive, complement of to be when it
does has a subject
32. Antecedent
33. Number, person, and gender
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34. What kind of noun can be either singular or plural
34. Collective noun
depending on the content of the sentence?
35. What must a subject agree with?
36. What do singular verbs end with?
37. List the singular indefinite pronouns.
35. Verb
36. An s
37. Each, either, neither, one, anyone, anybody, no one,
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nobody, someone, somebody, everyone, everybody
38. Both, few, several, many
List the plural indefinite pronouns.
39. Some, any, none, all, most
List the indefinite pronouns that can be singular or plural.
What is a group of words that expresses a complete thought, 40. Clause
can stand alone, and has a subject and verb?
What is a group of words that does not express a complete 41. Phrase
thought?
42. Run-on
What is 2 or more sentences written incorrectly as one
sentence?
43. Fused sentence, comma splice
Name 2 kinds of run-ons.
44. Period with capital letter, comma with coordinating
Name 4 ways to correct a run-on.
conjunction, semicolon, subordinate
45. Simple, compound, complex, compound-complex
Name 4 kinds of sentences based on sentence structure.
46. Complex
Identify what kind of sentence is I + D?
47. Compound
Identify what kind of sentence is I + I?
48. Compound-complex
Identify what kind of sentence is I + I + D?
49. Simple
Identify what kind of sentence is I?
Which punctuation mark is used when showing ownership? 50. Apostrophe
51. Brackets
Which punctuation mark is used for an addition into
someone else’s writing?
Which punctuation mark is used after a formal introduction 52. Colon
for a quotation?
53. Comma
Which punctuation mark is used after an informal
introduction for a quotation?
Which punctuation mark is used around brief confirmatory 54. Parentheses
information?
55. Italics (Underlining)
Which punctuation mark is used for titles of books?
56. Quotation marks
Which punctuation mark is used for titles of chapters?
57. Colon
Which punctuation mark is used before items listed in a
series?
58. Dash
Which punctuation mark is used after items listed in a
series when the list is at the beginning of a sentence?