Unit 5 Grammar Review

Identify the choice that best describes the underlined phrase in this sentence.

The book on the table belongs to me.

• adjective phrase

• adverb phrase

• appositive phrase

Identify the choice that best describes the underlined phrase in this sentence.

Did you drive to the grocery store today?

• adjective phrase

• adverb phrase

• appositive phrase

Identify the choice that best describes the underlined phrase in this sentence.

Ms. Reyes, my English teacher, is fluent in Spanish and French.

• adjective phrase

• adverb phrase

• appositive phrase

Identify the choice that best describes the underlined phrase in this sentence.

The suggestion that Jim run for student body president was greeted with enthusiasm.

• adjective phrase

• adverb phrase

• appositive phrase

• gerund phrase

Identify the choice that best describes the underlined phrase in this sentence.

Jim’s uncle, the former mayor, helped him plan his political campaign.

• adjective phrase

• adverb phrase

• appositive phrase

• gerund phrase

Identify the choice that best describes the problem for the sentence.

Hoping for a warm day, the picnic supplies were all packed.

• misplaced modifier

• dangling modifier

• phrase fragment

• none of the above

Identify the choice that best describes the problem for the sentence.

Hiking along the path in the state park.

• misplaced modifier

• dangling modifier

• phrase fragment

• none of the above

Identify the choice that best describes the underlined phrase in this sentence.

Despite their name, French fries are not originally from France.

• independent clause

• adverb clause

• adjective clause

• noun clause

Identify the choice that best describes the underlined phrase in this sentence.

Although he had never tried it, Jeff knew he would like hot and sour soup.

• relative pronoun

• subordinating conjunction

• personal pronoun

• preposition

Identify the choice that best describes the sentence.

Each year, Americans eat 152 pounds of refined sugar per person; this is 24 pounds more than in 1970.

• simple sentence

• compound sentence

• complex sentence

• compound-complex sentence