grammar test

Question 1

Hamilton and Jefferson represented two opposing eighteenth century political factions-the Federalist and the Republicans

Answer 1

eighteenth century missing hyphen

• hyphen words used as a single adjective
• # 25

Question 2

Federalism is when the states and the national government have equal power

Answer 2

Can not use when

• never define a word by using when, where, how, or a form of the word being define
• # 19

Question 3

“Between you and I,” said John C. Calhoun

Answer 3

Use me not I

Question 4

In the Civil War, states in the Upper South felt the loss of states’ rights to the national government when President Lincoln ordered the federal occupation of Maryland, that prevented its seceding from the Union.

Answer 4

Use which instead of that

• Which and a comma introduce a non-restrictive clause
• # 11

Question 5

Lincoln also instituted other measures against Maryland such as: arresting the Mayor and City Council, imprisoning many Maryland legislators and editors, and threating Baltimore City with cannonading. This occasioned the line, “The despot’s (Lincoln’s) hell is on thy shore,” the first verse of the state song, Maryland, My Maryland!

Answer 5

: never use after verb or such as

• semicolon uses to separate main clauses
• # 23

Maryland, My Maryland needs brackets

• brackets enclose words inserted in a quote
• parentheses enclose explanatory or non essential elements in a sentence
• # 35

Question 6

Lincoln’s response to the Southern charge that he was another tyrannical King George was that he only wanted to save the Union from dissolution. The president mollified Maryland, a Southern slave state, by exempting it from the dictates of his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.

Answer 6

Only

• a modifier such as only should fall immediately before the word or phrase that it modifies.
• # 10

Question 7

Striking quickly with his cavalry; Captain Harry Gilmore, a Confederate raider from Towson, harassed Union troops guarding bridges and railways. In every raid, his squadron tried to decisively impede Yankee occupation of Maryland.

Answer 7

decisively

• don’t split infinitives
• # 14

Question 8

When a Marylander was found who flew the Confederate flag, they were arrested by order of General Butler, commander of the Union occupation army in Baltimore. He ordered that exhibiting a “flag, banner, ensign, or device of the so-called Confederate States… will be deemed to be evidence of a design to afford aid and comfort to enemies of the country.” Many Marylanders did wear rebel insignia Union occupying troops arrested them and sent them to Fort McHenry, a federal/national prison during the war.

Answer 8

don’t use they

• pronoun and antecedent is not plural
• fix by saying MarylanderS
• # 5
• “…” incorrect
• when closes a sentence use a period after (…).
• # 36
• “Many Marylanders… during the war” = run on sentence
• need punctuation between 2 ideas
• # 3

Question 9

Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette was the first American newspaper to reach a national audience

Answer 9

Italicize “Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette”

• italicize or underline titles
• # 29

Question 10

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, America’s first best-selling publication, inspired Americans to take up arms.

Answer 10

best-selling

• need a hyphen for words used as single adjective
• # 25

Question 11

The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution can be called the two testaments of the American political Bible. One being the scripture for freedom, the other for order

Answer 11

“One being…. for order”

• sentence fragment, cant stand alone
• # 1

Question 12

in the last sentence of the Declaration, Jefferson pledges “our lives, our fortunes, and our being honorable.”

Answer 12

quotation

• wrong form
• # 20

Question 13

By the end of the War for Independence, 4,435 soldiers of the Continental Army lay dead. The words which Jefferson had written in the Declaration had been bought in blood.

Answer 13

that instead of which

• theres no comma
• # 11

Question 14

After fighting the War for Independence, the Articles of Confederation became the laws that made a nation of every former American colony.

Answer 14

The articles of confederation

• dangling modifier
• # 9

Question 15

The Federalist by Madison, Hamilton, and Jay argue for a republic against a democracy, the Anti-Federalist was a counter argument to The Federalist

Answer 15

comma after democracy

• weak and unneeded
• # 2

Question 16

In Federalist, No.55, Madison argues against democracy. Think it’s effect to be mob rule, he says, “Had every Athenian been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob”.

Answer 16

period at the end

• needs to be inside the quote mark
• # 21

Question 17

If the Constitution was submitted for ratification without the Bill of Rights, the federal republic of the United States would not have been established. It is to the anti-federalist that we owe the first ten amendments.

Answer 17

change was to were

• expresses a wish, belief, condition, recommendation, or request
• # 15

Question 18

Neither Washington nor Franklin are thought to be the architect of the Constitution. And while it is Madison that is accorded the honor, everyone at the Constitutional Convention knew that they had witnessed an important event.

Answer 18

are change to is

• singular verb
• # 4

change that to who

• who refers to people
• that refers to animals and things
• # 8

change they to he
-#5

Question 19

But, none of the Founding Fathers are as prominent as George Washington.

Answer 19

change are to is

-#4 error in pronoun/antecedent agreement

Question 20

In Washington’s Farewell Address, he advised America about the importance of national unity and national defense.

Answer 20

a pronoun cannot refer logically to a possessive antecedent

-#7

Question 21

Hamilton’s and Jefferson’s arguments about a national bank marks the beginning of “loose” and “strict” constructions of the Constitution.

Answer 21

no ‘s after Hamilton

-#4 error in pronoun/antecedent agreement