Comprehensive Grammar Checkpoint
Axia College Material
Appendix F
Comprehensive Grammar CheckPoint
Enter the correct answer for each item by typing A or B in the second column. Provide an explanation for each choice in the Rationale column. The boxes expand to accommodate the text.
Item | Correct Answer(A or B) | Rationale | 1. | B | “her name” assumes female. | 2. | A | “because I’m a girl” implies all girls aren’t good at math | 3. | B | A infers the expectation that Muslims are not nice | 4. | B | Cuban American is not necessary to the context of the sentence | 5. | A | Sentence states fact | 6. | B | A implies all younger people know more about technology | 7. | A | I felt that the “hearing impaired” information is needed to decide the accommodations needed | 8. | B | A assumes that because of the last name, raw fish will be served. Makes general cultural assumption | 9. | B | Second sentence of A is a fragment. It needs a conjunction and a reference to who or what “never found out”. | 10. | B | Sentence A is a fragment and has no subject | 11. | A | B should have a period after “ankles”. | 12. | A | A uses a semi-colon to join 2 closely related ideas | 13. | A | Rule is words ending in y preceded by a consonant, change the y to an i and add es | 14. | B | “Commitment” is spelled incorrectly in sentence A | 15. | B | University is part of the proper name of the school | 16. | A | Days of the week, months, and holidays need to be capitalized; “McDonalds” is a proper noun (place) and needs to be capitalized | 17. | A | Apostrophe is needed in “It’s” to indicate the missing letter (It is). | 18. | A | Rule is add an apostrophe and an s to show the possessive case of plural nouns that do not end in s or es | 19. | A | Add an apostrophe s to form the possessive case of “Robinson”, a singular noun. For “ours’”, the rule is add only an apostrophe if adding the additional s after the apostrophe would make the word difficult to pronounce | 20. | A |
Appendix F
Comprehensive Grammar CheckPoint
Enter the correct answer for each item by typing A or B in the second column. Provide an explanation for each choice in the Rationale column. The boxes expand to accommodate the text.
Item | Correct Answer(A or B) | Rationale | 1. | B | “her name” assumes female. | 2. | A | “because I’m a girl” implies all girls aren’t good at math | 3. | B | A infers the expectation that Muslims are not nice | 4. | B | Cuban American is not necessary to the context of the sentence | 5. | A | Sentence states fact | 6. | B | A implies all younger people know more about technology | 7. | A | I felt that the “hearing impaired” information is needed to decide the accommodations needed | 8. | B | A assumes that because of the last name, raw fish will be served. Makes general cultural assumption | 9. | B | Second sentence of A is a fragment. It needs a conjunction and a reference to who or what “never found out”. | 10. | B | Sentence A is a fragment and has no subject | 11. | A | B should have a period after “ankles”. | 12. | A | A uses a semi-colon to join 2 closely related ideas | 13. | A | Rule is words ending in y preceded by a consonant, change the y to an i and add es | 14. | B | “Commitment” is spelled incorrectly in sentence A | 15. | B | University is part of the proper name of the school | 16. | A | Days of the week, months, and holidays need to be capitalized; “McDonalds” is a proper noun (place) and needs to be capitalized | 17. | A | Apostrophe is needed in “It’s” to indicate the missing letter (It is). | 18. | A | Rule is add an apostrophe and an s to show the possessive case of plural nouns that do not end in s or es | 19. | A | Add an apostrophe s to form the possessive case of “Robinson”, a singular noun. For “ours’”, the rule is add only an apostrophe if adding the additional s after the apostrophe would make the word difficult to pronounce | 20. | A |