8th Grade Abeka Grammar Test 3

What is the following sentence? Declarative, Imperative, Interrogative, or Exclamatory?
She was a leading mystery writer in the twentieth century

Declarative

What is the following sentence? Declarative, Imperative, Interrogative, or Exclamatory?
What exciting endings her book have

Exclamatory

What is the following sentence? Declarative, Imperative, Interrogative, or Exclamatory?
Try reading a book by the English author Agatha Christie

Imperative

What is the following sentence? Declarative, Imperative, Interrogative, or Exclamatory?
Two of her most famous detectives were Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot

Declarative

What is the following sentence? Declarative, Imperative, Interrogative, or Exclamatory?
Are you looking for an interesting book to read

Interrogative

Identify the Subjects and Verbs in the sentence.
Decorated with intricate designs, the wedding cake was a beautiful centerpiece.

Subject: cake
Verb: was

Identify the Subjects and Verbs in the sentence.
Andre painted his room but did not rearrange his furniture.

Subject: Andre
Verb: painted, did rearrange

Identify the Subjects and Verbs in the sentence.
Here is the book about reptiles.

Subject: book
Verb: is

Identify the Subjects and Verbs in the sentence.
What sport did Dylan play last year?

Subject: Dylan
Verb: did play

Identify the Subjects and Verbs in the sentence.
Always do your best.

Subject: (You)
Verb: do

Identify the Subjects, Verbs, and Complements in the sentence.
The team performs may shows every year.

Subject: team
Verb: performs
Complements: shows

Identify the Subjects, Verbs, and Complements in the sentence.
The Blue Angels is the Navy's flight demonstration squadron.

Subject: Blue Angels
Verb: is
Complements: squadron

Identify the Subjects, Verbs, and Complements in the sentence.
Their shows are very exciting.

Subject: shows
Verb: are
Complements: exciting

Identify the Subjects, Verbs, and Complements in the sentence.
The team flies F/A-18 Hornets.

Subject: team
Verb: flies
Complements: F/A-18 Hornets

Identify the Subjects, Verbs, and Complements in the sentence.
Some of the aviators are sailors, and some of the aviators are marines.

Subject: Some, some
Verb: are, are
Complements: sailors, marines

Sentence, Fragment, or Run-on?
Hippocrates, known as the Father of Modern Medicine.

Fragment

Sentence, Fragment, or Run-on?
Hippocrates lived in ancient Greece and wrote over seventy books on diseases of the human body.

Sentence

Sentence, Fragment, or Run-on?
Plato and Aristotle were contemporaries of Hippocrates.

Sentence

Sentence, Fragment, or Run-on?
He proposed the idea that disease is caused by lifestyle, environment, and diet, he did not think the gods caused disease.

Run-on

Sentence, Fragment, or Run-on?
Hippocrates pioneered the study of the symptoms of a disease, his was a rational and gentle approach to the patient.

Run-on

Select the correct one.
A. Romantic age
B. romantic Age
C. Neither

C. Neither

Select the correct one.
A. my Cousin
B. my cousin
C. Neither

B. my cousin

Select the correct one.
A. the Hon. Benjamin Darcy
B. Hon. Benjamin Darcy
C. Neither

B. Hon Benjamin Darcy

Select the correct one.
A. A.D. 53 comes after B.C. 92
B. 53 A.D. comes after B.C. 92
C. Neither

C. Neither

Select the correct one.
A. The Jacksonville News-Journal
B. The Jacksonville News-Journal
C. Neither

A. The Jacksonville News-Journal

Select the correct one.
A. 25 of the six hundred people
B. 25 of the 600 people
C. Neither

B. 25 of the 600 people

Select the correct one.
A. south of town
B. South of town
C. Neither

A. south of town

Select the correct one.
A. FBI investigation
B. F.B.I. investigation
C. Neither

A. FBI investigation

Select the correct one.
A. Samsung Phone
B. Samsung phone
C. Neither

B. Samsung phone

Select the correct one.
A. sudden spring shower
B. sudden Spring shower
C. Neither

A. sudden spring shower

Correct or Incorrect: is the sentence punctuated correctly?
"Was only one-fourth of the cake eaten?" questioned Mrs. Bennington.

Correct

Correct or Incorrect: is the sentence punctuated correctly?
As her family visited various cities, Ella read the following books during vacation; "Anne of Green Gables" in Phoenix, Arizona, "Caddie Woodlawn" in Dallas, Texas, and "Innocents Abroad" in Mobile, Alabama.

Incorrect

Correct or Incorrect: is the sentence punctuated correctly?
"The sparkling Christmas tree glittered impressively in the foyer of The Grand Hotel!" said Parker.

Incorrect

What is another name for the summarizing sentence?

Clincher sentence

What are the three ways to develop a paragraph?

incidents, reasons, and examples

What are the two types of outlines?

topical and sentence

What is the word used for points on an outline being grammatically similar?

parallel

What should be no longer than one-third of its original?

summary

Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were allies in ending the Cold War.

Diagram:

Ashley and her mother visited Ireland and stayed at Blarney Castle.

Diagram:

Shut the door, please.

Diagram:

Over the calm water sailed the boat.

Diagram:

Callie and Henry came in and sat down quietly.

Diagram: