d - Answer Select the best word for the blank in the following sentence.
He was _______________________ by her kind words.
a. affect
b. effect
c. effected
d. affected
b - Answer Which of the following senteces is grammatically incorrect?
a. He performed well on the test.
b. He performed good on the test.
c. He performed poorly on the test.
d. He performed adequately on the test.
c - Answer In the following sentence, which is the dependent clause?
We played a game while we waited, and then we had dinner.
a. We played
b. then we had dinner
c. while we waited
d. a game
a - Answer Which of the following sentences is grammatically correct?
a. She drove much farther than I did.
b. The campus is further up the road.
c. I will have to consider farther before making a decision.
d. The hospital was further away than he thought.
d - Answer Select the best word for the blank in the following sentence.
He thought it was _________ than 3 miles to the hospital.
a. further
b. fewer
c. bigger
d. less
a - Answer Select the best words for the blanks in the following sentence.
The patient wanted to _____ down on the bed, but first she had to ______ her tray of
food on the table.
a. lie, lay
b. lay, lie
c. lie, laid
d. lain, lying
c - Answer Which word from the following sentence is a noun?
The bird flew acoss the blue sky.
a. across
b. flew
c. bird
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d. blue
b - Answer Which word in the following sentence is a conjunction?
The little girl wanted a cookie, but she didn't take one.
a. little
b. but
c. take
d. the
c - Answer Which word in the following sentence is a direct object?
The nurse helped the patient with the medication.
a. helped
b. nurse
c. patient
d. medication
d - Answer Which word or phrase in the following sentence is a subject?
The nurses went to the conference room.
a. conference
b. went to
c. room
d. nurses
a - Answer Which of the following sentences is grammatically correct?
a. Walking home from class, the students watched the snow begin to fall.
b. Walking home from class, the snow began falling on the students.
c. Walking home from class, snow fell on the students.
d. Walking home from class, the students watched the snow fell.
b - Answer Select the best word for the blank in the following sentence.
The student sang well, but she danced _______.
a. bad
b. badly
c. poor
d. poorer
a - Answer Which of the following sentences is grammatically correct?
a. I wanted ice cream; he wanted cake.
b. I wanted ice cream he wanted cake.
c. I wanted ice cream, he wanted cake.
d. I wanted ice cream but he wanted cake.
b - Answer Select the best word for the blank in the following sentence.
The college _______ he chose is in New York.
a. which
b. that