Exam 17: Grammar Exercises

Which of the following is a correct form of the nominative case?

The award is presented annually to whomever has the highest average monthly sales.

Identify the concrete noun below.

Fill-in-the-Blank Questions Select one of the options in parentheses to correctly complete the sentence. -Each of the documents _______ (need, needs) to be signed by the intern's manager.

Fill-in-the-Blank Fill in the blank with the word in parentheses, capitalizing if necessary. Your answer must be case sensitive. -When Harold Tanner, _______ (operations manager), arrived, Mr. Dhingra was in a meeting.

Fill-in-the-Blank Questions Fill in the correct preposition to correctly complete the sentence. If nothing is required, insert a dash or hyphen ( - ) to correctly complete the sentence. -There was silence inside _______ the boardroom.

Select the most appropriate conjunction to complete the following sentence: The company wisely invested in a website, _______ a typo in its URL has prevented customers from finding it.

Which of the following words is a preposition?

Which of the following sentences is in the active voice?

Which of the following phrases contains a word or words that should be capitalized?

Worse is what type of adjective?

Sentence Correction Questions Make any necessary corrections to the sentences below. -If Lydia was in line for a promotion, she would have bought a new car, but since she likely has years to wait, she purchased a used one.

Sentence Correction Questions Make any necessary corrections to the punctuation in the sentences below. -Anyone in the office, who is interested in playing on the softball team, should contact Pete.

Which of the following sentences is in the indicative mood?

Sentence Correction Questions Make any necessary corrections to the sentences below. -Twenty-three hundred employees will be out of work if the plant closes.

A collective noun is treated as plural when

Fill-in-the-Blank Questions Fill in the correct preposition to correctly complete the sentence. If nothing is required, insert a dash or hyphen ( - ) to correctly complete the sentence. -I worked _______ retail before going back to college.

Fill-in-the-Blank Questions Select one of the options in parentheses to correctly complete the sentence. -The article the refers to a ________ (non-specific, specific) noun.

Fill-in-the-Blank Questions Fill in the correct preposition to correctly complete the sentence. If nothing is required, insert a dash or hyphen ( - ) to correctly complete the sentence. -Where will the meeting be held _______?

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. -A phrase that begins a sentence is followed by a comma if it has four or more words or contains ________ (a verb, an adjective, a noun) form.