(NOTE: Answers with explanations are in bold below.)
1. The teacher decided to teach his students about the Braille system for the blind.
A. Teacher
B. Students
C. Braille (A proper noun will always be indicated by a capital letter at the beginning of the word when not beginning a sentence. A proper noun is the name of a person, place, or thing.)
D. Blind
2. Which of these pronouns is third-person plural possessive?
A. They
B. That
C. Who
D. Their (The third person plural pronoun is “They,” and to indicate possession for that pronoun, “Their” is the appropriate form.)
3. In the following sentence , identity the part of speech of the italicized word
Thousand of years ago, fish were caught in nets and traps.
A. Verb
B. Pronoun
C. Conjunction (Conjunctions “hold” things together. In this particular instance, “and” is holding “nets” and “traps” together as “nets” and “traps” are serving in conjunction as objects of the preposition “in.”
D. Preposition
4. Each pronoun should agree with its antecedent in
A. Number (Pronouns should agree with their antecedents in number meaning that if the noun is singular, the pronoun should be, or if the noun is plural, the pronoun should be. For instance, if the noun is “dog,” the proper pronoun is “it.” If the noun is “dogs,” the proper pronoun should be “they.” If both the noun and pronoun are not the same in number, this is called an agreement error.)
B. Noun
C. Tense
D. Singularity
5. What is one question that an adverb answers?
A. What kind?
B. Which one?
C. How much? (An adverb modifies a verb by providing detail. This can be done by answering “how much” questions. For instance, let’s look at the following sentence: <em>The dog barks daily. </em> With the verb “barks,” we are told how much the dog barks with the word “daily”; thus, daily is the adverb.
D. How many?
