Final Grammar Test
Please mark you answer by highlighting your choice of answer. Please see example.
Example: The following word group is a FRAGMENT: The boy, upstairs in his room.
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Part I: True or False
The following word group is a FRAGMENT: That movie, one of my favorites.
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The following word group is a FRAGMENT: The local baseball team, needing a good pitcher most of all.
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The following word group is a FRAGMENT: Using a flashlight, he looked under the bed for his shoes.
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The capitalized verb agrees with the subject: Three employees from our company and one from our competitor WAS fired.
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The capitalized verb agrees with the subject: Three of my friends LIKE this band.
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The capitalized verb agrees with the subject: Six girls and one boy WAS in the dance class.
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Quotation marks are correctly used in the following sentence, the entire sentence is correctly punctuated, and all words in the sentence are correctly capitalized:
"This is a fantastic opportunity", the salesman insisted.
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Quotation marks are correctly used in the following sentence, the entire sentence is correctly punctuated, and all words in the sentence are correctly capitalized:
"Are you serious ?!?" Fred asked.
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Quotation marks are correctly used in the following sentence, the entire sentence is correctly punctuated, and all words in the sentence are correctly capitalized:
My best friend said that "She'd heard something like that."
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Part II: Multiple Choice
In the following sentences, identify if the word grouping contains sentence fragments, a comma splice, or a run-on sentence, or if the grouping is a complete sentence.
Cats, unlike dogs and fond of sitting on laps.
__ Sentence fragment
__ Comma splice
__ Run-on sentence
__ Complete sentence (contains no error)
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