Abeka 8th grade grammar test 12

Which sentence is capitalized correctly?

A. Lake Hiller in Australia is a bright pink color.

Which sentence is capitalized correctly?

C. My World History 102 class visited a World War 11 memorial at the park.

Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

D. A fishing pole, a baseball glove, and tennis racket—these three things were on Daniel's list to take on vacation.

Which sentence uses manuscript form correctly?

C. Twelve of the 319 students who applied were awarded the scholarship.

The meal HAD BEEN PREPARED the night before.

Past perfect

Rose and Clark WILL MAKE the signs for the bake sale.

Future

Nathan CONSIDERED all his options.

Past

Blake GIVES his all in everything he does.

Present

Which statement is correct?

B. The verb is passive.

Which statement is correct?

D. Olympic games is compound

Come here now, please, I need you.

Run-on

Are you going?

Sentence

In 1938, when Adolf Hitler seized power in Germany, the world was unaware of the desperate battle for freedom that lay ahead.

Sentence

Going to the fair on Friday.

Fragment

The Romanov dynasty in RUSSIA ended in 1918.

Noun

Queen Victoria was a BRITISH monarch.

Adjective

Cinderella WAS a princess in a story by Grimm brothers.

Verb

The king sent Marco Polo TO Asia.

Preposition

Most kings and queens are CONSIDERED very rich.

Verb

The OLDEST child often becomes the next king.

Adjective

The men POLITELY bowed when the king entered.

Adverb

WOW! Maria Antoinette of France was only eighteen when she became queen.

Interjection

DURING the Irish Potato Famine of 1845, many Irish people came to America.

Preposition

WHO was the first person to be processed through Ellis Island.

Pronoun

Did you know that FOOD made with spinach is called Florentine?

Noun

Catherine the Great of Russia founded SEVERAL orphanages and did much to encourage education for women during her reign as queen.

Adjective

Eleanor of Aquitaine was the only queen to have an active part as a MILITARY leader during the Crusades.

Adjective

Luxembourg celebrates the official birthday of the reigning sovereign on June 22, no matter WHEN the sovereign's actual birthday occurs.

Conjunction

The Hebrews enjoyed a theocracy; God was their ONLY king.

Adjective

Our bodies can digest a MEAL in only twelve hours.

Direct object

The swarm of desert locusts is FRIGHTENING to watch.

Predicate adjective

Faith sent her GRANDMOTHER a postcard from Venice.

Indirect object

The Sarawak Chamber in Malaysia is the largest CAVE in the world.

Predicate nominative

The snake swallowed the bird EGG.

Direct object

Please take out your books, CLASS.

Direct address

The train TO CATCH leaves in one hour.

Adjective

Mary and Drew are singing a duet in the CONCERT.

Object of Preposition

Florida, the Sunshine State, actually gets rain days of the summer.

Appositive

Thundering and lightning, the storm RACED through the valley.

Verb

Mallory is the girl standing IN THE DOORWAY.

Preposition : adverb

PEERING THROUGH THE MICROSCOPE, Dr. Johnson could see the pond water was teeming with life.

Participial : adjective

Maria heard the waves crashing IN THE DISTANCE.

Preposition : adverb

BAKING COOKIES is Grandma's specialty.

Gerund : noun

You need to plan early IF YOU WANT TO GO TO CAMP IN JUNE.

Adverb

Rex left muddy footprints ON THE NEWLY WASHED FLOOR.

Preposition : adverb

SLOWLY CIRCLING THE SMALL CRAFT, the shark came closer and closer.

Participial : adjective

The man THAT WILL NOT WORK should not eat.

Adjective

The young child wanted WHAT HE COULD NOT HAVE.

Noun

SINCE YOU ARRIVED EARLY, you may help set up the decorations.

Adverb

Joe's best friend, WHO IS FROM SINGAPORE, speaks four languages fluently.

Adjective

BECAUSE THE PLANE LEAVES AT EIGHT O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING, I will need to pick you up at six.

Adverb

His belief THAT THE NEIGHBORHOOD PARK WAS THE BEST LOCATION THE PARTY was accurate.

Noun

Emperor Vespasian built the Colosseum in Rome

Simple

Emperor Titus, the son of Vespasian, held the first games in the Colosseum; they lasted for one hundred days.

Compound

The building, which had eighty entrances and could hold over fifty thousand spectators, had an arena the size of a modern football field.

Complex

Under the Colosseum were two underground levels, and over the Colosseum was a special awning, which kept the rain off the spectators.

Compound-complex

It is estimated that over 700,000 people were killed fighting in the arena.

Complex

Many tourists in Rome visit the Colosseum every year; it is one Rome's most recognizable structures.

Compound

Neither these planets nor Mercury ______ close to Jupiter.

Is

Several constellations ____ been identified by the students.

Have

There ____ almost twenty-five hours in a day on Mars.

Are

Uranus is the planet that ____ many moons.

Has

The president is ____ a goal for America to return to space.

Setting

I ____ the film of Neil Armstrong stepping onto the moon.

Saw

Sara and ____ are writing their informative papers on the space-shuttle program.

She

Jacob went to the planetarium with you and____.

Me

____ and Buzz Aldrin were two of the first Americans in space.

He

The information in the catalog that tells a brook's location in the library is the ___?

Call number

The most important sentence in the paragraph is them ____ sentence.

Topic

The two types of the outline are ____ and sentence.

Topical

What is a brief composition that states the main ideas of d longer piece of writing?

Summary

The sentence that will give your essay direction is the ____ sentence.

Thesis

Which sentence would go on this construction?

A. My little sister Lisa sent the family three postcards when she was gone for a week at cheer camp, but my older brother Tom couldn't call when he went to South Africa for a month.

What sentence structure is indicated by diagram?

D. Compound-complex