Exam 17: Grammar Exercises

What form of adjective or adverb is used to compare three or more people or things?

Which of the following would be enclosed in a set of single quotation marks?

Many of the applicants for the front-desk job at our plushest resort hotel, seemed to think that room and board were included in the benefits package.

Which of the following sentences uses capital letters correctly?

Choose the pronoun that correctly completes the sentence: When the file was accidentally deleted, _____ and Sandy worked together to rewrite it.

Fill-in-the-Blank Questions Select one of the options in parentheses to correctly complete the sentence. -Not wearing appropriate business attire to a job interview appears _______ (unprofessional, unprofessionally).

Sentence Correction Questions Make any necessary corrections to the sentences below. -The event will take place in a restaurant at 194 East Twenty-ninth Street.

Which of the following phrases is correct?

Sentence Correction Questions Make any necessary corrections to the sentences below. -Nearly 1/4 of the coupons distributed to local households were redeemed.

Identify the part of speech of the underlined word: My manager becomes angry when e-mails are unnecessarily long.

At the meeting several shareholders seemed displeased by the decision so it wasn't a surprise that many shares were sold afterward.

Pronouns that follow linking verbs must be in what case?

Which word can you mentally add between adjectives to test the need for a comma?

Which of the following words is a conjunction?

Sentence Correction Questions Make any necessary corrections to the punctuation in the sentences below. -The company has organized employees into teams, that will work independently on finding efficiencies.

Fill-in-the-Blank Fill in the blank with the word in parentheses, capitalizing if necessary. Your answer must be case sensitive. -To see how the new model is assembled, look at _______ (figure) 4 in the brochure.

Fill-in-the-Blank Questions Select one of the options in parentheses to correctly complete the sentence. -We would like to work with her on _______ (the, a) future project.

Sentence Correction Questions Make any necessary corrections to the punctuation in the sentences below. -The distributor of the fasteners we use to secure the bases, has moved its head office to Montreal.

Fill-in-the-Blank Questions Select one of the options in parentheses to correctly complete the sentence. This exercise is case-sensitive, so you must use capital letters where necessary. -Choose the correct punctuation mark: At the meeting the CEO gave an uplifting speech and congratulated the staff on a good year ______ although the year-end results fell below forecasted revenues.

Eli Johanssen, _______ (36, thirty-six), is our company's youngest CEO ever.