Strengthening Sentences Quiz

1. Which term best describes extremely long sentences?

• a. Grammatically incorrect

• b. Difficult to follow

• c. Artful and literary

• d. Easy to understand

2. Which of the following sentences has a redundant word or idea?

• a. The airplane's pilot put the airplane into a dive

• b. The gray kitten played with an older cat.

• c. This house is much bigger than our last one.

• d. I'd rather go to the circus than the county fair.

3. Which of the following sentences is in the passive voice?

• a. A house was built at the end of the road.

• b. The spider built a complicated web.

• c. I just finished building my airplane model when the phone rang

• d. I am building a new house for my dog.

4. Which of the following sentences is in the active voice?

• a. The sweater was bought by Cassie.

• b. The students were put to sleep by the boring teacher

• c. Moby was hit on the head by an anvil.

• d. I consider myself a great student.

5. Which of the following is a true statement about the passive voice?

• a. It turns the predicate of a sentence into the subject

• b. It turns the predicate of a sentence into an object

• c. It turns the object of a sentence into a subject

• d. It turns the subject of a sentence into a predicate

6. What is the modifier in the sentence, "Tom ate the burger and fries as if he were in a race?"

• a. Tom

• b. Ate

• c. Burger and fries

• d. As if he were in a race

7. The words "very" and "really" are considered trite. In this context, what does "trite" mean?

• a. Useful

• b. Overused

• c. Grammatically incorrect

• d. Misspelled

8. How can you use a thesaurus to improve your writing?

• a. You can look up the correct spellings of words

• b. You can figure out whether words are modifiers or not

• c. You can find interesting words to replace bland ones

• d. You can find ways to change passive-voice sentence constructions into active-voice ones

9. Which of the following steps should you follow to strengthen your writing?

• a. Read your writing out loud to see if it's clear and interesting

• b. Replace short, boring adjectives with longer ones

• c. Count how many words each of your sentences has

• d. Make sure you never use the passive voice

10. What effect does a modifier have on a sentence?

• a. It gives the sentence a clever double meaning

• b. It makes the sentence more interesting or descriptive

• c. It simplifies the sentence

• d. It changes a sentence into the active voice