Module 8 Quiz 1

Question 1

______ _______ don’t apply to a specific person or group of people– they are nouns all by themselves. So the word below, anyone, can apply to anyone!

Answer 1

Indefinite pronouns

Question 2

_________ like pretty, dozens, and frantic describe nouns, and adverbs like backwards, joyfully and everywhere describe the action of the verb.

Answer 2

Adjectives

Question 3

_______ describe verbs, and the ______ horribly tells us how the science fair experiment went.

Answer 3

Adverbs / adverb

Question 4

Which of the following adjectives best completes this sentence? “Derek’s __________________ little cousin poured chocolate milk all over Derek’s iPad, and didn’t even say sorry.”

annoyed
annoying
annoyingly
annoys

Answer 4

annoying

The adjective annoying best fits this sentence, because annoyingly is an adverb, annoyed describes the person being bothered, and annoys is a present-tense verb.

Question 5

The relative pronoun “that” can be used in all of the following sentences except:

1) I want to wear the costume ____ won first place last year.
2) The color _____ my aunt used to paint her nails matches her dog’s sweater.
3) The car _____ the bank robbers were driving broke down right in front of the police station.
4) Gloria just goes crazy _____ she hears her favorite band on the radio.

Answer 5

4) Gloria just goes crazy _____ she hears her favorite band on the radio.

The sentence, “Gloria just goes crazy _____ she hears her favorite band on the radio” is best completed with a subordinating conjunction like, when or whenever.

Question 6

Which of the following relative pronouns best completes this sentence? “______________ wants candy has to sneak it into the movie theater themselves!”

He
Whom
Whomever
Whoever

Answer 6

Whoever

The relative pronoun Whoever completes this sentence, because it connects the first part of the sentence (wants candy) to the second part (has to sneak it into the movie theater themselves!)