Unit 2 Review

1. Which sentence has a noun underlined?

A. My grandfather has been on several long voyages.

B. Recently, he returned from India.

C. He said that his last voyage was turbulent.

D. His boat rocked on the tossing waves.

2. Which sentence has a common noun underlined?

A. I am going to get to go with my grandfather when he leaves next.

B. We will travel to Alaska and see a few things there.

C. Next, we will sail over to Russia and travel by plane to Moscow.

D. We will fly from Moscow to New York City and then home.

3. Which sentence is written correctly?

A. My grandfather visited boston a few years ago, and I went with him.

B. Sailboats fill Chesapeake Bay and Boston Harbor during July.

C. That Summer I had a lot of fun learning to Sail.

D. He promised me that I could go next july on my Summer vacation.

 

4. Which sentence is written incorrectly?

A. I watched some sailboat’s race while I was there.

B. I saw a young boy’s binoculars fall into the water.

C. Mr. Jones’s sailboat came in second.

D. Some sailboats’ sails got damaged by the rough winds.

5. Which sentence is written correctly?

A. Grandpa is a member of two sailing societies.

B. He comes to pick me up on Saturdaies.

C. We saw two fishermans as we reached the dock.

D. They were unloading their boates and counting their fish.

6. Which sentence is written correctly?

A. My grandma grows tomatos in her garden.

B. On Sundayes, I work in my grandmother’s flower bed.

C. I watched some videos on gardening to learn more.

D. She is teaching me how to take care of different kinds of plantes.

7. Which sentence has a collective noun underlined?

A. My grandmother is very special to me.

B. We spend a lot of time together on the weekends.

C. She takes me to Wal-Mart with her sometimes.

D. I even get to go with her to the gardening club.

8. Which sentence is written correctly?

A. That store has banana’s for sale.

B. My mom likes the apples’ with caramel on them.

C. I eat grapes at lunch every day.

D. The bananas’s skin is turning brown.

9. Which sentence has an appositive underlined?

A. Sammy, my best friend’s cat, has gray fur with black stripes.

B. I like to play with Sammy when I go to my friend’s house.

C. He loves his Squeaky, a small rubber mouse.

D. I like to watch him chase Squeaky all over the house!

10. Which sentence has an appositive phrase underlined?

A. My family and I recently moved to a different county.

B. I don’t really like Matthews Elementary, my new school.

C. I like Kealing Elementary, my old school, much better.

D. Hopefully, Matthews will turn out to be better once I make friends.

11. Which sentence is written correctly?

A. Matthews, my new school was built in 1970.

B. My old school Kealing, was built in 1985 and is much newer.

C. I miss my friends at Kealing but I am starting to make friends.

D. Delia Smith, a girl at Matthews, invited me to her party yesterday.

12. Which sentence is written correctly?

A, Delia’s party a slumber party, was a lot of fun.

B. I met Suzy Coates one of Delia’s best friends.

C. Suzy and I both play the clarinet, a woodwind instrument.

D. Suzy’s friend, Bobby Jones, plays the trombone.

13. Which sentence uses a nonessential appositive phrase?

A. An important French seaport Marseille is located on the Mediterranean.

B. Some French villigers, the old-timers, prefer to travel the dirt roads.

C. The artist Monet was a great French painter.

D. The famous poet T. S. Elliot wrote a poem called “The Wasteland.”

14. Which sentence uses an essential appositive phrase?

A. Sixty million people, France’s population, are dispersed throughout the country.

B. Many rural people, farmers, are moving to urban areas.

C. Nearly 1/6 of the population is located near Paris, the capital.

D. France has a lower population growth rate than its neighbor Germany.

15. Which sentence is written correctly?

A. The short poem “Ozymandias” by Shelly addresses some science fiction themes.

B. Jonathan Swift wrote a satire essay called A Modest Proposal.

C. Edgar Allan Poe is the author of the short story “The tell-tale Heart.”

D. The movie “The Planet of the Apes” was first released in 1968.

16. Which sentence is written correctly?

A. I wrote an essay on Ray Bradbury’s book Fahrenheit 451.

B. We learned to sing Swing Low, Sweet Chariot in music class.

C. She is a huge fan of the television series “The Office.”

D. Her favorite episode of “Spongebob Squarepants” is Best Day Ever.

17. Which sentence is written correctly?

A. Kurt Vonnegut’s book “Welcome to the Monkey House” includes the short story A Long Walk to Forever.

B. Some of the stories were originally published in magazines like The Atlantic Monthly.

C. In 1970, he wrote a play called “Happy Birthday, Wanda June.”

D. “the New York Times” called Kurt Vonnegut “a laughing prophet of doom.”

18. Which sentence is written correctly?

A. The “Star Wars” movies are some of my favorites.

B. Writer/Director George Lucas based his story on Joseph Campbell’s book Hero With A Thousand Faces.

C. Here They Come! is an exciting song on the “Star Wars” soundtrack.

D. My essay, “Leia through the Trilogy,” will have to be revised now that the new movies have been released.

19. Which sentence uses italics or quotation marks incorrectly?

A. One of my favorite books is Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

B. I even bought the book that went along with it, The Tales of Beatle the Bard.

C. “The Deathly Hallows” is a short story from The Tales of Beatle the Bard.

D. They are making two movies out of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

 

20. Which sentence uses italics or quotation marks incorrectly?

A. L. Frank Baum wrote the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

B. It was made into a movie called The Wizard of Oz.

C. Gregory McGuire wrote the book “Wicked,” which tells the wicked witch’s side of the story.

D. E.T. is a movie that is a variation of The Wizard of Oz, where a stranger finds himself in another world.

 

Answers1. C2. A3. B4. A5. A6. C7. D8. C9. C10.C

11.D12.C13.B14.D15.A16.A17.B18.D19.A20.C