Grade 9 Grammar Terms 1 & 2 Revision Quiz

Describe a noun.

• Describe a noun

• Describes an action or state of being

• Names a person, place, thing, or idea

• Modifies a verb, adjective, or adverb

'I have been walking' is

• past perfect continuous tense

• present perfect continuous tense

• past perfect tense

• future perfect continuous tense

What is a verb?

• Names a person, place, thing, or idea

• Describes an action or state of being

• Describes a noun

• Replaces a noun

What is an adjective?

• Describes a noun

• Modifies a verb, adjective, or adverb

• Replaces a noun

• Shows time/space relationships

What is a simple sentence?

• Two main/independent and at least one subordinate/ dependent clause

• Two main/independent clauses joined by a conjunction

• One main/independent clause and one or more subordinate/dependent clauses

• One main/independent clause

What is a compound sentence?

• One main/independent clause

• Two main/independent clauses joined by a conjunction

• One main/ independent clause and one or more subordinate/dependent clauses

• Two main/independent and at least one subordinate/dependent clause

What is concord? Multiple answer may apply.

• A singular subject takes a singular verb

• A plural subject takes a plural verb

• Indefinite pronouns like 'everyone' are singular

• Collective nouns usually take plural verbs

'I had been walking' is

• past perfect tense

• future perfect continuous tense

• present perfect tense

• past perfect continuous tense

Identify the example of the present simple tense?

• I am walking

• I walk

• I walked

• I had walked

identfy the example of direct speech?

• He said, 'I am tired.'

• He said that he was tired.

• In indirect speech, pronouns change.

• No quotation marks in indirect speech.