Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Basic Grammar and
Usage—Use Types of Clauses—RIT 201-210
Before you leave for the game, you must clean your
room.
Choose the best interpretation of this sentence.
a. | You don’t have to clean your
room. | c. | You may clean your room after the
game. | b. | You must clean your room. | d. | If you want to go to the game, you must clean your room
first. |
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Basic Grammar and
Usage—Use Types of Phrases—RIT 201-210
1. Those birds might have been
resting in our
garage.
A
B
C D
Which underlined
word or words is a prepositional phrase?
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Choose the underlined phrase
that tells “which”.
a. | By the
time I finish my chores, it will
be time to go. | c. | Before
noon we’d already eaten
lunch. | b. | The dress with the long sleeves is my favorite one. | d. | Look under
the blankets for the pajamas. |
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Basic Grammar and
Usage—Use/Distinguish Verb Tenses—RIT 201-210
Which sentence indicates an event that is in the
future?
a. | We had pizza for lunch last
Friday. | c. | We will be going
on a field trip next week. | b. | Today we are practicing division. | d. | We stayed up until midnight last
night. |
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The wind has driven the cattle
to find shelter.
Which choice means nearly the same as the underlined verb?
a. | has
thrown | c. | has
blown | b. | has shown | d. | has forced |
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Yesterday, Jason and Ellen
________ to school together.
Choose the correct verb.
a. | walk | c. | walks | b. | walked | d. | walking |
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Kids throwing rocks ________
all the windows in that shack.
Choose the correct verb.
a. | has
broken | c. | have
broken | b. | have broke | d. | has breaked |
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Identify which cluster of verbs
is in the present tense.
a. | bring, eat,
fly | c. | dragged, ate,
gav | b. | knew, drew, flew | d. | blown, begun, chosen |
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She ________ to see the doctor
for hours.
Choose the correct verb phrase.
a. | have been
waiting | c. | has been
waiting | b. | has been waited | d. | have been waited |
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Capitalization—Capitalize Pronoun “I”--RIT 191 - 200
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Which of the following sentences is not capitalized correctly?
a. | I won the race. | c. | Sally
and i ate lunch together. | b. | Mom said I forgot
to call. | d. | I saw a shooting star. |
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Which of the following sentences is written
correctly?
a. | i think i’ll call her. | c. | I believe I’ll have a cookie. | b. | she answered My letter. | d. | She said i’m
late |
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Capitalization—Capitalize Proper Nouns and Adjectives--RIT 191-200
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We crossed the mississippi river on a warm tuesday.
Which words should be
capitalized?
a. | mississippi, warm | c. | mississippi, river, tuesday | b. | river, warm, tuesday | d. | crossed,
warm |
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I enjoyed reading the novel call of the wild by
Jack London.
Which words in the book title should be capitalized?
a. | call, the | c. | of,
the | b. | call,wild | d. | of,
wild |
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Which of the following is a proper
noun?
a. | girl | c. | beth | b. | lady | d. | woman |
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If the poem “Lady of the Lake” is
capitalized correctly, which of the following is also capitalized
correctly?
a. | “Hound of the Valley” | c. | “Teacher of the animals” | b. | “boy of the Wildnerness” | d. | “memory of
the trees” |
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Which of the following is a proper
noun?
a. | pumpkin | c. | my
friends | b. | her mirror | d. | Sandy
Turner |
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Which of the following is capitalized
correctly?
a. | My family loves campbell’s
soup. | c. | Maria bought a Hershey’s candy
bar. | b. | Do you have the new nintendo
game? | d. | We bought new crayola crayons. |
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Identify the sentence below that is capitalized
correctly.
a. | Gerry loves chinese food. | c. | We listened to spanish music at school. | b. | My mother can speak French and German. | d. | My father bought
an american car. |
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Which of the following sentences is capitalized
correctly?
a. | My soccer team is the Cleveland
Cougars. | c. | My sister plays for the cleveland
cats. | b. | We won a game against the Denver darts last
week. | d. | Last year’s winners were the magic
miners. |
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Capitalization—Use
Beginning Capitalization--RIT 191-200
Which sentence is correct?
a. | Trudy went to the store for her mother to buy eggs and
milk. | c. | nate always wanted to fly helicopters when he grew
up. | b. | tricia raced down the street to greet the ice cream man
at his stand on the corner. | d. | ahad sat quietly in the movie while other around him
roared with laughter. |
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dear
sue,
how was the
party? I wish I could have been there. I miss
you.
love,
Cindy
Which underlined words should be capitalized?
a. | dear, how, there | c. | dear,
party, love | b. | dear, how,
love | d. | dear, how, party |
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Jean asked, “where did the
girls put my keys?”
Which underlined word should be
capitalized?
a. | keys | c. | where | b. | girls | d. | asked |
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Which sentence is written
correctly?
a. | all the children wanted to pet the cute, warm, cuddly
kitten. | c. | many children screamed with laughter when the little cat
meowed. | b. | the kitten was terrified at first when fifteen children
ran to pet it. | d. | Two children in the class eventually became the kitty’s
caretakers. |
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my dog is a golden retriever and she loves water.
you should see susie dive for rocks! down under the surface she goes, and up she comes with a nose
full of water and a huge rock in her mouth!
Which words should be
capitalized?
a. | my, you, susie, down | c. | susie, down, nose, water | b. | my, nose, rock,
mouth | d. | my, you, susie, water |
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liza and bobby looked forward to visiting their
grandparents. grandma ruth and grandpa john lived in
the country and had lots of farm animals.
they were really excited about the horses.
Which words should be capitalized?
a. | liza, bobby, grandparents, grandma ruth, grandpa
john | c. | liza, grandparents, country, animals,
they | b. | liza, bobby, grandma ruth, grandpa john,
they | d. | liza, bobby, grandparents, they, horses |
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as the young boy sauntered down the street, he
yelled, “buy your newspaper from me!”
Which words should be
capitalized?
a. | as, street | c. | as,
buy | b. | as, boy | d. | as,
newspaper |
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When writing a direct quotation, which word or
words are always capitalized?
a. | all of the nouns | c. | the
last word in the quotation | b. | all important
words | d. | the first word in the quotation |
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