Grammer Q3 Study Guide, Granger Middle School

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Identify the form of the capitalized verb: 1. At home in Mississippi, food had often SEEMED scarce.

past participle

Identify the form of the capitalized verb: 2. Young Wright HAD the acute, daily ache of hunger.

past form

Identify the form of the capitalized verb: 3. His stomach frequently was CHURNING with discomfort.

present participle

Identify the form of the capitalized verb: 4. Then Wright and his mother TRAVELED to his aunt's home in Arkansas.

past form

Identify the form of the capitalized verb: 5. They are VISITING Wright's Aunt Maggie and Uncle Hoskins today.

present participle

Re-write the word in the past tense (in lowercase-1st peson): 6. ride*

rode

Re-write the word in the past tense (in lowercase-1st person): 7. says*

said

Re-write the word in present tense (in lowercase-3rd person): 8. will become

becomes

Re-write the word in present tense (in lowercase-3rd person): 9. wanted*

wants

Re-write the word in future tense (in lowercase, may add "will"): 10. suggests

will suggest

Identify the word in past perfect tense. 11. LIVE*

had lived

Identify the word in the past perfect tense. 12. REACH*

had reached

Identify the word in the present perfect tense. 13. BRING*

has brought

Identify the word in the present perfect tense. 14. DO*

doing

Identify the word in the future perfect tense. 15. BREAK*

will have broken

Identify the progressive form that expresses the continuing action: 16. THEY ARE READING.

Present Progresive

Identify the progressive form that expresses the continuing action: 17. THEY WILL HAVE BEEN READING.

Future Perfect Progressive

Identify the progressive form that expresses the continuing action: 18. THEY HAD BEEN READING.

Past Perfect Progressive

Identify the progressive form that expresses the continuing action: 20. THEY WILL BE READING.

Future Progressive

Identify the progressive form that expresses the continuing action: 19. THEY WERE READING.

Past Progressive

Identify the progressive form that expresses the continuing action: 21. THEY HAVE BEEN READING.

Present Perfect Progressive

How would you make the following sentence present emphatic? 22. I READ THE NEWSPAPER EVERY DAY.

I do read the newspaper every day.

How would you make the following sentence present emphatic? 23. TONY READS THE PAPER OCCASIONALLY.

Tony does read the paper occasionally .

How would you make the following sentence past emphatic? 24. INEZ READ THE NEWSPAPER YESTERDAY.

Inez did read the newspaper yesterday.

Identify whether the following sentence is in active or passive voice: 25. THE CIVIL WAR ENDED SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES.

Active Voice

Identify whether the following sentence is in active or passive voice: 26. AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, LITTLE WAS DONE BY SOCIETY ABOUT THE PLIGHT OF AFRICAN AMERICANS.

Passive Voice

Make the tenses match by re-writing (in lowercase) the capitalized verb to match the other's tense. (27.) Aunt Maggie was a fine cook, and she SETS a variety of savory foods on the table.

set

Make the tenses match by re-writing (in lowercase) the capitalized verb to match the other's tense. (28.) As Wright BITES into a biscuit, he recalled his many hungry times.

bit

Make the tenses match by re-writing (in lowercase) the capitalized verb to match the other's tense. (29.) After his meals, Wright PUTS some extra food into a pocket or hid it the house.

put

Make the tenses match by re-writing (in lowercase) the capitalized verb to match the other's tense. (30.) Wright's mother FINDS a wad of bread when she washed the dishes.

found

Identify the correct simple subject and verb. [1.] Perhaps Michael's extraordinary abilities playing basketball (was/were) encouraged by her father.

abilities / were

Identify the correct simple subject and verb. [2.] Our parks (is/are) also a wonderful resource for recreation.

parks / are

Write the VERB form that agrees with the simple subject. [3.] Here (comes/come) the people who want to shop before they go out to dinner.*

come

Identify the proper subject and correct verb form that goes with it. [4.] Brady's eighteen years in major-league football (is/are) considered a long career.

years / is

Identify the appropriate form of each verb in parenthesis [5.] Many an athlete and spectator (feels/feel) excited when the lights in an arena dim.*

feels

Identify the appropriate verb in parenthesis. [6.] The players, in addition to the coach, (is/are) relieved that the performance went so well.

are

Write the appropriate form of the verb in parenthesis. [7.] Both of these (is/are) authentic variations.

are

Select and correctly identify the types of the two personal pronouns in the following sentence. [select 2 bubbles] (1.) His grandparents had just moved into the empty cabin next to ours.

His possessive, ours possessive

Objective

Possessive

Nominative

Ordinary form

Paolo often plays with his pet dog.

Emphatic form

Paolo does play with his pet dog.

Progressive form

Paolo is playing with his pet dog.

Ordinary form

They bake cakes in their cookery class.

Ordinary form

I read fairy tale stories for my little sister.

Emphatic form

I do read fairy tale stories for my little sister.

Emphatic form

They do bake cakes in their cookery class

Progressive form

I am reading fairy tale stories for my little sister.

Progressive form

They are baking cakes in their cookery class.

Pick the correct answer. (2.) If you get this question wrong, (its/it's) probably because you rushed through it.

it's

What is the rule about it's?

"it's" is not possessive but is short for "it is"

Pick the correct answer. (3.) We gave two players, Tom and (he/him), a bat and a ball.

him

Pick the correct pronoun to use in place of the capitalized words. (4.) Nobody likes Disney movies more than MY FAMILY AND I.

we

Pick the correct answer. (5.) (Who/Whom) did you say gave you the tickets to the movie?

Who

Pick the correct answer. (6.) When one studies hard, \________ can learn a lot.

one

Pick the correct answer. (7.) Many of the students bring \________ own computers to school.

their

Pick the correct answer. (8.) Principals and (us/we) use academic language frequently.

we