Deck 17: Handbook of Grammar, mechanics, and Usage

Question 1

Which of the following italicized words is an adjective?

A)too dark
B)silent movie
C)into the theater
D)badly missed
E)paid in full

Answer 1

silent movie

Question 2

Punctuation goes inside quotation marks if the whole sentence is quoted but outside the quotation marks if only the last part of the sentence is a quote.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Which one of the following punctuation marks is used to separate a dependent clause at the beginning of a sentence from the rest of the sentence?

A)semicolon
B)colon
C)comma
D)dash
E)hyphen

Answer 3

C

Question 4

You should include a comma when a date consists only of the month and year.

Question 5

Which of the following is a demonstrative pronoun?

A)he
B)this
C)who
D)anyone
E)either

Question 6

The difference between "lie" and "lay" is that "lie" is an intransitive verb and "lay" is a transitive verb.

Question 7

Many adverbs are formed by adding "-ly" to adjectives.

Question 8

Which of the following is a sentence fragment?

A)The bigger they are,the harder they fall.
B)He put the package in the mail right away.
C)Come here.
D)Moxie,depending on his friends for support.
E)Try it.

Question 9

The following sentence uses all words correctly: She was disinterested in paying me a complement.

Question 10

In the following sentence,which word should not be capitalized? "After talking with President Hilda Bruckner,Morton decided that the Insurance industry would provide a suitable career for someone who was a graduate of the Department of Business at Gable University."

A)Department
B)President
C)Gable
D)Insurance
E)University

Question 11

A semicolon is used to separate independent clauses when the second clause begins with a conjunctive adverb such as "however" or "therefore."

Question 12

What is the tense of the verb in this sentence? "We had given Tim the money a week before he arrived."

A)present
B)past
C)future
D)past perfect
E)auxiliary

Question 13

Which of the following words is misspelled?

A)accomodate
B)exaggerate
C)occurrence
D)receive
E)forth

Question 14

Which of the following terms should not be hyphenated?

A)The relationship was long-term.
B)We had a long-term relationship.
C)That is one self-confident politician.
D)I introduced her as my ex-wife.
E)Please meet my mother-in-law.

Question 15

The plural of "son-in-law" is "sons-in-law," but the possessive is "son-in-law's."

Question 16

A linking verb is always followed by a noun,pronoun,or adjective.

Question 17

Which of the following possessive phrases is not correct?

A)the team's contract with the players
B)the teams' contract with the players
C)its advantages to the players
D)it's advantages to the players
E)the plans for the team

Question 18

The verb "do" is an example of a regular verb.

Question 19

The pronoun "who" is in the nominative case; the pronoun "whom" is in the objective case.

Question 20

What is the problem with this sentence? "We can give him a small raise,he deserves it."

A)comma splice
B)sentence fragment
C)dangling modifier
D)excessive infinitives
E)incorrect participles