Exam 11: Identifying Parts of Speech in Sentences

Write the correct verb in the blank. The raven (set, sat) on the bust and croaked, "Nevermore."

Write the incorrect pronoun in the blank. Mrs. Danner told Beverly that her husband was lazy.

One punctuation mark or capital letter is omitted in each of the following sentences. Insert them as needed. (Pairs of quotation marks are considered one unit.) She had two reasons for going to correct her popularity poll and to demonstrate her courage.

Identify the part of speech of each italicized and bold-printed word or group of words by placing the appropriate abbreviations in the blanks. ​ Have any of those people voted before? ​   _________, _________.

Write the simple subject, without modifiers, in the first blank; write the verb in the second blank. Some sentences have compound subjects, compound verbs, or both. Under the terms of that contract, the car repair was covered.   _________, _________. ​

​ In each blank, write P for good parallel structure or NP for nonparallel structure. We must hope for the best and prepared for the worst. ​

Write the correct verb in the blank. The janitor (raises, rises) the flag every morning before we arrive.

Insert all necessary commas or semicolons in the following sentences. Freud wanted to go to Rome, a city that fascinated him but his purpose was never clear to me.

Insert all necessary commas in the following sentences. Their trip which occupies the first part of the book is a story of suffering compassion and sacrifice.

One or two words in each sentence should be omitted or corrected.  Write the word or words that should be omitted or the correction in the blank. When the winner was about to be announced, Shelly couldn't scarcely breathe. ​

Write the correct verb in the blank. By the time school began, Salima had (risen, raised) enough money for her tuition.

Insert all necessary commas or semicolons in the following sentences. Motorists must wear their seat belts or they risk getting a ticket.

​ In each blank, write P for good parallel structure or NP for nonparallel structure. ​ They rowed in silence over the deep, dark lake that felt cold.

Identify the part of speech of each italicized and bold-printed word or group of words by placing the appropriate abbreviations in the blanks. ​ Others had confidence that the menu would change.   _________, _________. ​

Insert all necessary commas in the following sentences. Many of these common people are migrants and farm workers and most are basically good.

Combine each group of sentences into a single sentence.  Use coordination, subordination, or one of the other ways of combining ideas. These objects are made to smell like marijuana or the chemicals used to manufacture explosives. They become training tools.

In each blank, write P for good parallel structure or NP for nonparallel structure. ​Madison Avenue takes people as they are and leaves them there intellectually. ​

​ Indicate the kind of sentence by writing the appropriate abbreviation in each blank. ​             S          simple             CP        compound             CX        complex             CC        compound-complex. I found the information where you said I would. ​

Write the appropriate identification in each blank. ​             OK       correct             CS        comma splice             RO       run-on             FRAG fragment He used his own horse, an old nag with a sagging back.

Write the correct pronoun in the blank. Brown & Company is having (its, their) spring clearance sale now.