Exam 11: Identifying Parts of Speech in Sentences

Insert all necessary commas in the following sentences. Sometimes though we must admit that we were wrong. ​

Write the correct verb in the blank. After the explosion, (was, were) there any people unaccounted for?

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.) You can't understand it without the punctuation; is it two boys hats or one?

Write the appropriate identification in each blank. ​             OK       correct             CS        comma splice             RO       run-on             FRAG fragment Don Quixote would do what he could to rid the world of evil Sancho Panza would be rewarded with his own island kingdom. ​

​ Indicate the kind of sentence by writing the appropriate abbreviation in each blank. ​             S          simple             CP        compound             CX        complex             CC        compound-complex. ​ Never underestimate the strength of your enemy in planning your defensive moves.

Combine each group of sentences into a single sentence. Use coordination, subordination, or one of the other ways of combining ideas. Some large farm owners took advantage of the workers. The workers banded together. ​

Write the correct verb in the blank. Before his mother said a word, he told everyone he had been (lying, laying) down when the fire started.

Insert all necessary commas or semicolons in the following sentences. Ronald mailed his resume to twenty potential employers three of them called him to schedule interviews.

One word in each sentence should be omitted or corrected. Write the word that should be omitted or the correction in the blank. ​Lauren had the most perfect voice for the role of Violetta of any who tried out. ​

Write the incorrect pronoun in the blank. In that class, they don't have to write a research paper.

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.) Tucker said to them, "Remember that Papa said, The good die young!"

Write the appropriate identification in each blank. ​             OK       correct             CS        comma splice             RO       run-on             FRAG fragment Don Quixote and Sancho Panza were deadly serious, they had a mission. ​

Write the correct pronoun in the blank. Neither the teacher nor the students could find (her, their) missing hamster.

Write the incorrect pronoun in the blank. This is my brother's dog, whom you met at church last Sunday.

Write the correct verb in the blank. A number of persons (was, were) killed on that road last year.

Insert all necessary commas in the following sentences. Alison you are not telling the whole truth.

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.) Maria Perez, the defense attorney, asked judge Robert Stone to declare a mistrial.

Write the correct verb in the blank. Across the aisle (rests, rest) the ashes of one of England's greatest poets.

In each blank, write P for good parallel structure or NP for nonparallel structure. ​The drivers were suspected of changing the compression of both the motor and the size of the wheels. ​

Combine each group of sentences into a single sentence.  Use coordination, subordination, or one of the other ways of combining ideas. A police dog's education begins with obedience training. It continues with endurance and agility training.