College Training - TEAS - English - Identify: Level 09

How can you fix a sentence with a misplaced modifier?

• Change the modifier
• Move the modifier
• Delete the modifier
• Write a new sentence

The police chased the bear in the squad car.

This sentence needs to be corrected because of ____________.

• faulty tense
• a dangling modifier
• a misspelled word
• a misspelled modifier

The grateful soldier relaxed after years of battle in his living room.

This sentence depicts an example of _______________.

• faulty parallelism
• a misplaced modifier
• running on
• comma errors

Another word for the structure of language is ___________.

• mechanics
• word usage
• grammar
• vocabulary

Grammar is called the ____________ of language.

• word usage
• structure
• vocabulary
• mechanics

What word is the modifier?

“Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”

• think
• beginning
• is
• beautiful

The use of components in a sentence that are the same or similar in their construction, sound, meaning, or meter is called ________________.

• alliteration
• grammatical
• parallelism
• foreshadowing

What is the problem with this sentence?

“When the lady left her house, she was hoping to see her best friend, grab a few groceries, and that she would be home before supper.”

• tense shift
• comma splice
• run on
• faulty parallelism

What change should be made to the sentence below?

While we were on vacation I bought a sombrero.

• Add a comma after “we”
• Add a comma after “While”
• Add a comma after “vacation”
• Add a comma after “bought”

Which of these sentences has the correct use of the comma?

• I want to buy the new jacket but it is too expensive.
• I want to buy the new jacket, but it is too expensive.
• I want to buy the new jacket, but it is, too expensive.
• I want to buy the new, jacket but it is too expensive.

What is the anxiety or excitement about an outcome in a story?

• fear
• suspect
• motive
• suspense

The new girl at school didn’t talk to anyone all day. When the teacher called on her she looked down at her desk. I don’t think she made any friends on her first day.

From this situation we can guess that the new girl is probably _________________.

• kind
• shy
• funny
• mean

“Alot” is ________________________

• a word that means, “few”
• a word used to mean, “many”
• a word that often ends a sentence
• not a word in the English dictionary

An idiom is a ________________________.

• phrase or expression with a different meaning
• phrase that might not make sense
• phrase or expression meaning what it says
• term for a person with low aptitude

The meaning of a word is called the ___________.

• description
• definition
• dictation
• etymology

What is a synonym for the word politely?

• smartly
• meanly
• strictly
• kindly

What change if any would correct the following sentence?

We went to the store to buy two loafs of bread.

• Change the word went to are going
• Change the word two to too
• Change the word loafs to loaves
• Make no change to the sentence

You can look for _____________ in a sentence to help figure out what confusing words mean.

• similar words
• synonyms
• context clues
• punctuation

Which word is an antonym for emancipate?

• confuse
• rescue
• liberate
• enslave

What is the base word of misguided?

• mis
• guided
• guide
• misguide

Select the correct pronoun to complete this sentence.

Both of the boys turned ___________________ homework in late.

• their
• his or her
• his
• her

This is a noun (or group of words acting as a noun) to which a pronoun refers.

• interrogative pronoun
• reflexive pronoun
• subject
• antecedent

What type of word is Everyone?

Everyone reads a part of the novel to the class.

• pronoun
• proper noun
• indefinite pronoun
• verb

Find the superlative form of the adjective delicious.

• deliciouser
• deliciousest
• more delicious
• most delicious

What is the noun, proper noun, or compound noun being used as an adjective in the following sentence?

The story came from a newspaper reporter.

• reporter
• newspaper
• came
• from

In this sentence, the word ourselves is an example of which type of pronoun?

We let ourselves into the old cabin through the back door.

• personal
• relative
• intensive
• reflexive

A narrative device in which suggestions or warnings about events to come are dropped or planted is called ________________.

• parallelism
• alliteration
• foreshadowing
• suspense

What is the type of pronoun They represents in this sentence?

They bought the desk.

• personal
• reflexive
• subject
• object

In the following sentence, what type of word is right?

When the driver reached the intersection, she turned right.

• adjective
• adverb
• verb
• noun

What type of word is beautiful in this sentence?

Some of the ruins are absolutely beautiful.

• pronoun
• verb
• adverb
• adjective

Which change corrects the sentence?

^{the forty cars in the annual car show, were only Chevrolets.}

A. Among
B. their
C. too
D. No change is necessary.

Which change corrects the sentence?

^{the forty cars in the annual car show, were only over thirty years old.}

A. Between
B. there
C. too
D. No change is necessary.

Which change corrects the sentence?

^{the fifty signs we saw on the trip, were advertising lawyers.}

A. Between
B. their
C. two
D. No change is necessary.

Which change corrects the sentence?

^{the forty cars in the annual car show, were only two .}

A. Between
B. their
C. Fords
D. No change is necessary.

Which change corrects the sentence?

^{the fifty signs we saw downtown, were only advertising restaurants.}

A. Between
B. their
C. too
D. No change is necessary.

Which change corrects the sentence?

^{All three states have a major public university in .}

A. except
B. there
C. capitol
D. No change is necessary.

Which change corrects the sentence?

^{All three states have a major public university in .}

A. accept
B. their
C. capitol
D. No change is necessary.

Which change corrects the sentence?

^{All three states have a major public university in .}

A. accept
B. there
C. capital
D. No change is necessary.

Which change corrects the sentence?

^{All three states have a major public university in .}

A. accept
B. there
C. capitol
D. No change is necessary.

Which change corrects the sentence?

^{All three states have a major public university in .}

A. accept
B. there
C. capital
D. No change is necessary.