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Quiz

Underline your example in each response. Use The Things They Carried as the basis for your responses for  questions 1-11.  

1.     Write six sentences showing pronoun/ antecedent agreement, three correct, three incorrect. (Use subjective, objective, possessive pronouns).

2    Write two sentences demonstrating parallelism, one correct, one incorrect.

3.   Write two sentence showing subject/verb agreement,  one correct, one incorrect. 

4.       Write ten sentences indicating the following verb forms: (use same base sentence throughout)

Simple: present, past, future,

Perfect: present, past , future

Progressive: present progressive, past progressive, future progressive, present perfect progressive

5.       Write two sentences .  Then subordinate one to the other in a third sentence.

6.       Write two sentences using whoever and whomever correctly.

7.       Write two sentences that each include two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction, one correct and one incorrect.

8.       Write two related sentences, then combine them in a third sentence that includes a relative pronoun and a relative clause.

9.       Write three sentences indicating the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.

10.   Write two sentences showing the correct and incorrect use of a semicolon.

11.   Write a sentence that includes all the parts of speech, and label the “parts” above the words in the sentence.

12.   In the following sentence, underline the subject ,and the predicate verb, and the dangling modifier, then re-write it correctly.

Yelling for help, a grizzly bear chased a frightened visitor down the road in Yellowstone National Park.

13.    Write a citation for the Bedford Handbook In MLA format,.

14.    Revise the following sentence for clarity.   n.b. students’ answers will vary!

  Its perhaps the most frequently served item on the cafeterias menu despite the fact that the Food and Drug  Administration has advised against the eating of French fries by children because they exceed the recommended daily percentages of fat and carbohydrates and a leading cause of obesity in children.