NOTE: Quiz #3 for J101 Grammar for Journalists includes adjectives, adverbs, preposition and conjunctions. Please study the sections on adjectives, adverbs, prepositions and conjunctions before completing this homework assignment.
Identify the underlined part of speech.
1. Workers searched damaged homes and businesses after a tornado hit.
a. coordinating conjunction b. adverb c. subordinating conjunction d. adjective
2. With the daylight fading, they are going house to house, looking for anyone who needs help.
a. adverb b. correlative conjunction c. coordinating conjunction d. preposition
3. Maurice Greene runs faster than any man in the world.
a. coordinating conjunction b. adverb c. subordinating conjunction d. adjective
4. These changes are necessary.
a. adverb b. predicate adjective c. adjective d. conjunctive adverb
5. The plan will finished this summer although most of the work will be finished next year.
a. coordinating conjunction b. preposition c. subordinating conjunction d. adjective
6. The changes should produce annual savings of $400 million a year.
a. coordinating conjunction b. preposition c. subordinating conjunction d. adjective
7. The chain has been building and remodeling more than 900 stores
a. coordinating conjunction b. preposition c. correlative conjunction d. adjective
8. The surge in destructive hurricanes is expected to continue this year.
a. correlative conjunction b. preposition c. subordinating conjunction d. adjective
9. Storms must generate winds at least 74 mph before they are classified as hurricanes.
a. correlative conjunction b. preposition c. subordinating conjunction d. adjective
10. They have examined long-range forecasts; therefore, scientists expect increased hurricane activity.
a. conjunctive adverb b. subordinating conjunction c. coordinating conjunction d. preposition
11. Within the past five years, scientists have identified 60 hurricanes in the Atlantic.
a. adverb b. predicate adjective c. coordinating conjunction d. preposition
12. Neither the director nor forecasters expect to see the number of storms diminish.
a. correlative conjunction b. coordinating conjunction c. subordinating conjunction d. adjective
13. The court ruling criticizing the government angered the attorney general.
a. conjunctive adverb b. predicate adjective c. coordinating conjunction d. adjective
14. The boy is looking forward to competing with his classmates.
a. adverb b. coordinating conjunction c. subordinating conjunction d. preposition
15. Now the team has a chance to win.
a. adverb b. conjunctive adverb c. subordinating conjunction d. adjective
16. The boy is frightened about being returned to Cuba.
a. adverb b. predicate adjective c. coordinating conjunction d. preposition
17. We waited a long time for the tickets to go on sale.
a. adverb b. predicate adjective c. adjective d. preposition
18. He said that he wanted to play first base.
a. preposition b. coordinating conjunction c. subordinating conjunction d. adjective
19. Alex refused to attend a game without his baseball glove.
a. adverb b. predicate adjective c. adjective d. preposition
20. The attorney's argument may be heard by the full circuit court or by the Supreme Court.
a. correlative conjunction b. coordinating conjunction c. preposition d. adverb
Instructions: Choose the word that correctly completes each sentence.
21. You have a) fewer b) less items than I do so please go ahead.
22. Pop quizzes tend to a) elicit b) illicit sighs from the class.
23. a) Because b) Since Bill arrived at class late, he missed the quiz.
24. Many executives wished they had been more a) discreet b) discrete in sending internal memos.
25. Duck fans are a) anxious b) eager about the game against the top-rated team in the country.
Choose the word that is spelled incorrectly.
26. a. passable b. sustanence c. movable d. embarrassed
27. a. argument b. occasional c. hierarchy d. irresistable
28. a. sherrif b. demagogue c. quotient d. discernible
29. a. consensus b.mischievous c. accelarate d. preference
30. a. gullible b. preffered c. sufficient d. miscellaneous
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