NOTE: Quiz #3 for J101 Grammar for Journalists includes nouns, pronouns. Please study the sections on adjectives, adverbs, prepositions and conjunctions before completing this homework assignment.

Answers to Example of Quiz #3

Identify the underlined part of speech.

1. Workers searched damaged homes and businesses after a tornado hit.

2. With the daylight fading, they are going house to house, looking for anyone who needs help.

3. Maurice Greene runs faster than any man in the world.

4. These changes are necessary.

5. The plan will finished this summer although most of the work will be finished next year.

6. The changes should produce annual savings of $400 million a year.

7. The chain has been building and remodeling more than 900 stores

8. The surge in destructive hurricanes is expected to continue this year.

9. Storms must generate winds at least 74 mph before they are classified as hurricanes.

10. They have examined long-range forecasts; therefore, scientists expect increased hurricane activity.

11. Within the past five years, scientists have identified 60 hurricanes in the Atlantic.

12. Neither the director nor forecasters expect to see the number of storms diminish.

13. The court ruling criticizing the government angered the attorney general.

14. The boy is looking forward to competing with his classmates.

15. Now the team has a chance to win.

16. The boy is frightened about being returned to Cuba.

17. We waited a long time for the tickets to go on sale.

18. He said that he wanted to play first base.

19. Alex refused to attend a game without his baseball glove.

20. The attorney's argument may be heard by the full circuit court or by the Supreme Court.

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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