Grammar Test

Question 1

Beautiful white SNOW covered the mountain’s flanks.

Answer 1

Singular Noun

Question 2

Kentucky’s PASTURES produce many thoroughbreds.

Answer 2

Plural Noun

Question 3

Su-Lin scrubbed the CAR’S tires while Tom polished the chrome.

Answer 3

Possessive Noun

Question 4

Today’s OLYMPICS concentrate on sport only and have a much expanded venue.

Answer 4

Proper Noun

Question 5

PARTICIPANTS held the first modern games in the year 1896 in Athen, Greece.

Answer 5

Common Noun

Question 6

Abandoned for several centuries, the games were revived in 1894 by an internaitonal COMMITTEE.

Answer 6

Collective Noun

Question 7

YOU are the best friend anyone could ask for.

Answer 7

Personal Pronoun

Question 8

MS. Kowalski signed HER autograph on this theater program.

Answer 8

Possessive Pronoun

Question 9

The chimpanzee ITSELF opened the lock on the labratory door.

Answer 9

Intensive Pronoun

Question 10

Marin, why don’t you attend the meeting and see for YOURSELF?

Answer 10

Reflexive Pronoun

Question 11

WHOM did the sheriff want to see?

Answer 11

Interrogative Pronoun

Question 12

Is Pat the person WHO parked in the principal’s reserved space?

Answer 12

Relative Pronoun

Question 13

Please save SOME for Mandy.

Answer 13

Indefinite Pronoun

Question 14

How expensive are THOSE?

Answer 14

Demostrative Pronoun

Question 15

John Wesley Powell CAME from Mount Morris, New York.

Answer 15

Intransitive Verb

Question 16

Major Poweel and eight assorted adventurers BEGAN the mapping expedition on May 24, 1869.

Answer 16

Transitive Verb

Question 17

Connie WALKS to the grocery store with Miki.

Answer 17

Action Verb.

Question 18

Me neightbors APPEAR regularly on local television.

Answer 18

Linking Verb

Question 19

Marsha IS no GETTING a new sweater today.

Answer 19

Verb Phrase

Question 20

Some villages developed into HUGE urban areas.

Answer 20

Adjective

Question 21

Uncle Kwan laughed HEARILY.

Answer 21

Adverbs

Question 22

Judy parked her car IN FRONT OF MARGIE’S HOUSE.

Answer 22

Prepositional Phrase

Question 23

The boats were tied downstream below the DAM.

Answer 23

Object of the Preposition

Question 24

Is Hector the man leaning AGAINST the wall?

Answer 24

Preposition

Question 25

IN the ancient world the establishment or large governments AND the development of trade necessitated formal message-carrying systems.

Answer 25

Coordinating Conjunction

Question 26

Around 550 B.C, the Persians began a postal service that NOT ONLY proved dependable BUT ALSO still serves as a model for communication.

Answer 26

Correlative Conjunction

Question 27

The Romans established a large system that remained very reliable SO LONG AS the empire maintained it’s central world authority.

Answer 27

Subordinating Conjunction

Question 28

YIPES! Rover is losse again in the neighbor’s yard.

Answer 28

Interjection

Question 29

Everyone was restless;NEVERTHELESS, Hal continued his speech.

Answer 29

Conjunctive Adverb