Grammar and Vocabulary Quiz

Choose the sentence that is free from errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization.

• Cassandra and Laocoon, too Trojan, warned the citizens about the woden horse.

• Cassandra and Laocoon, two Trojans, warned the citizens about the wooden horse.

• Cassandra and Laocoon, two Trojans, warned the citizens about the wooden horse

• Cassandra and Laocoon two Trojans, warned the citizen about the wooden horse.

Which of the following are proper nouns?

• people's names

• seasons

• names of academic courses that don't have a number in them

• names of countries

• months of the year

Which of these words means also?

• too

• two

• to

• don't care

Choose the sentence that is free from errors in spelling, capitalization, grammar, and punctuation.

• Thier guidence, however, was ignored, and the horse was brought into the city of Troy.

• Their guidance, however, was ignored, and the horse was brought into the city of Troy.

• There guidance, however, was ignored, and the horse was brought into the city of Troy

• Their guidence, however, was ignored, and the horse was brought into the city of troy.

Which word is a contraction for they are?

• they are

• their

• there

• thier

• they're

What is a contraction in Standard American English?

• a possessive that uses an apostrophe to show ownership.

• when a paragraph needs to be indented

• a cue that lets a woman know she's about to give birth

• when an apostrophe is used to take the place of missing letters from the spelling of a word

• a plural that tells there is more than one and there needs an -s added