The document contains questions about grammar topics such as parts of speech, subjects and predicates, possessive nouns, verbs, adjectives, and figurative language. It also includes short passages and poems to analyze. The questions cover a wide range of foundational grammar and literary analysis skills.

2. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SIMPLE
SUBJECT AND A COMPLETE SUBJECT?

3. WHAT TYPE OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IS USED
IN THE LINES BELOW?
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

4. WRITE A SENTENCE. UNDERLINE THE SIMPLE
SUBJECT ONCE AND THE SIMPLE PREDICATE
TWICE.

5. WHAT IS THE ADJECTIVE IN THE SENTENCE
BELOW?
I work at the elementary school around the corner.

6. WHAT MISTAKE IS MADE IN THE FOLLOWING
SENTENCE?
Gwen and Stacy gave her doll to Madeline.

7. WHAT IS THE ADVERB IN THE SENTENCE
BELOW?
I swam quickly to shore when I saw the shark.

8. Cats are very hard to train, but some people have figured out how to do it. The secret
is that a cat’s brain is in its stomach. All you need is cat food, a spoon, and plenty
of time! Put some food on the spoon and hold it wherever you want the cat to go.
The cat will learn to obey your hand motions, even when there isn’t any food.
The passage mainly tells:
A. how to teach an old dog new tricks.
B. where the parts of a cat are located.
C. how to train a cat.
D. the differences between cats and dogs.

9. WHAT TYPE OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IS USED
IN THE LINE BELOW? HOW DO YOU KNOW
THIS? a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
Once upon
“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe

10. WHAT PART OF SPEECH IS THE UNDERLINED
WORD IN THE SENTENCE BELOW?
Dan’s father cleared the table after they ate dinner.

11. WHAT PART OF SPEECH IS THE UNDERLINED
WORD IN THE SENTENCE BELOW?
The class took a trip to Washington, D.C.

12. WHICH WORD IN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE IS
USED INCORRECTLY?
The dog licked it’s paws after it came inside.

13. WHICH WORD IN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE IS
USED INCORRECTLY?
The teacher gave there group a good grade for the project.

14. WHAT ARE THE THREE POSSESSIVE NOUNS
RULES?

15. WHAT PART OF SPEECH IS THE UNDERLINED
WORD IN THE SENTENCE BELOW?
Maria and Lucy ran around the track after school.

16. WHAT POSSESSIVE NOUNS MISTAKE IS MADE
IN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE?
The womens’ dinner started at 8:00 P.M.

17. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SIMPLE
PREDICATE AND A COMPLETE PREDICATE?

18. WHAT IS THE ADJECTIVE IN THE SENTENCE
BELOW?
The black cat sat on my doorstep.

19. WHAT MISTAKE IS MADE IN THE FOLLOWING
SENTENCE?
Thomas and me went out for ice cream.

20. WHAT IS THE RHYME SCHEME IN THE
FOLLOWING STANZA?
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost