2012-04-24 13:00:07 UTC
crawl, broken, ample, daisy, emergency, apple, broker, cradle, daily, elegant, callow
1. Which revised list is in alphabetical order?
A. ample, apple, broken, broker, callow, cradle, crawl, daily, daisy, emergency, elegant
B. ample, apple, broker, broken, callow, cradle, crawl, daily, daisy, elegant, emergency
C. ample, apple, broker, broken, callow, cradle, crawl, daisy, daily, elegant, emergency
D. ample, apple, broken, broker, callow, cradle, crawl, daily, daisy, elegant, emergency
2. A simple subject can be either a noun or a/an
A. pronoun.
B. adverb.
C. verb.
D. adjective
This question is based on the following sentence:
Either Mark or his students _______ on the ferry boat.
3. If you want to use the present tense, which word would best fill the blank?
A. are
B. was
C. is
D. were
4. Each one of the following words ends in est. Which one is spelled correctly?
A. Flattest
B. Bigest
C. Sillyest
D. Sweettest
5. Which one of the following words has the suffix -ing added correctly?
A. Findding
B. Stoping
C. Talking
D. Hopeing
6. Which one of the following sentences contains a spelling error?
A. Joshua could give no good reason for his absence.
B. Evelyn was not familiar with the procedure.
C. What would you like for desert?
D. Every autumn we visit a quaint inn near Boston.
7. In which sentence is a homonym used correctly?
A. He could not break quickly enough to avoid the accident.
B. I would not want to be there mother.
C. He replaced the brake lining.
D. Wherever you go, their you are.
8. In which one of the following sentences does the verb agree with the subject?
A. Who is the people in the photograph?
B. The book that explains the plays is on the shelf.
C. There is a million reasons why I shouldn't go.
D. Here is the reasons we can't start the ca
9. Which one of the following is a run-on sentence?
A. I'm not a fan of wrestling, but Leslie is.
B. Jerry told me he likes June, but Hank likes Julie better.
C. I think Frank might be too busy he likes to make people think he's smart.
D. I would talk to Frank if I knew him, but people don't ever talk to him.
10. Suppose you're writing a letter and you recall a word you'd like to use, but you don't know how it's spelled. If you wanted to look up the word in a dictionary, you could use any of the following techniques except
A. using the first letter of the word and searching through all the entries under that letter.
B. looking up the word as you think it's spelled.
C. looking up a related word that you can spell in search of clues.
D. writing the word the way you think it's spelled to jog your recall
11. Which one of the following fragments is a prepositional phrase?
A. Going to Cleveland
B. Completed her assignment
C. Listening to her heart
D. During the darkest night
As it sailed south, Lord Nelson's great ship, Victory, met the Spanish fleet near Trafalgar.
12. The simple subject of the sentence is
A. fleet.
B. ship.
C. south.
D. Lord Nelson.
13. Which one of the following sentences includes an error in subject-verb agreement?
A. Either June or her children are going to the movie tonight.
B. Laverne, who's married, and Shirley, who's single, both walk their dogs.
C. Neither Hannibal nor her pups is in the kitchen.
D. Carrie and Lucille work in the cafeteria
This question is based on the following paragraph:
(1) We decided to climb Mt. Rainer, but it was a long, hard journey to Washington State from Medford, Oregon. (2) We were worried about our likely sucess in the cold enviroment of the upper slopes. (3) For one thing, Marty was broke and anxius about having warm clothes for climbing. (4) To solve that problem, the rest of us choose to chip in and get him good cold-whether gear. (5) At last, we set off for Mt. Rainer. (6) But, when we arrived, it was snowing hard. (7) A local guide recommended that we spend the night in a motel in Tacoma.
14. Which one of the following words is a synonym for the word hard in sentence 1?
A. Solid
B. Easy
C. Hollow
D. Difficult
15. Which one of the following words has more than four syllables?
A. Pretentiously
B. Considerable
C. Embarrassment
D. Accidental
16. Which one of the following groups of words is a fragment?
A. The Carters enjoy vacationing at the lake.
B. Talking on the phone is her favorite pastime.
C. Strolling in the park on a summer afternoon.
D. In December, we usually take a skiing trip.
17. What is the simple subject of the following sentence?
Then, glancing upward at Lady Weathers's face, he saw a look of consternation.
A. he
B.