This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Test Prep > Sat > Sat Grammar – Quiz 21 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Sat Grammar Quiz 21 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Identify the sentence that avoids a dangling modifier. A) Running down the street, I felt my backpack was heavy. B) Running down the street, the heavy backpack was on my back. C) Running down the street, the backpack was heavy. D) While running down the street, the backpack was heavy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Running down the street, I felt my backpack was heavy. 2. Which sentence correctly uses pronoun/antecedent agreement? A) If Julia wants to keep healthy, she should eat broccoli. B) If Julia wants to keep healthy, they should eat broccoli. C) If Julia wants to keep healthy, it should eat broccoli. D) If Julia wants to keep healthy, we should eat broccoli. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) If Julia wants to keep healthy, she should eat broccoli. 3. Malaysians ..... eat rice for lunch. A) Never. B) Usually. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Usually. 4. Breakfast is one of the richest and most varied world traditions. As you traverse the globe, he may sit down to a bowl of steamy rice porridge in Thailand, strong coffee and oatmeal in Iceland, or fried doughnuts and coconut milk in Kenya. A) They. B) One. C) No change. D) You. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) You. 5. Did you remember ..... (buy) that bag of apples I asked you to get? We need those apples for the cake this evening. A) To buy. B) To buying. C) Bought. D) Buying. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To buy. 6. A goat ingests the vegetation particular to the meadow in which it grazes, which, along with other environmental factors such as altitude and weather shapes the cheese's taste and texture. If all foods were produced under the industrial model, we would have meals that are not very flavorful. A) NO CHANGE. B) Factors, such as altitude and weather,. C) Factors such as, altitude and weather,. D) Factors, such as altitude and weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Factors, such as altitude and weather,. 7. Select the sentence with correct word usage and punctuation. A) Its raining, lets go inside. B) It's raining, lets go inside. C) It's raining; let's go inside. D) Its raining; lets go inside. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It's raining; let's go inside. 8. This group of individuals was so powerful and corrupt that the New York Times, commented "There is absolutely nothing ..... in the city which is beyond the reach of this gang." A) Corrupt, that the New York Times commented,. B) Corrupt that the New York Times commented,. C) NO CHANGE. D) Corrupt, that the New York Times, commented. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Corrupt that the New York Times commented,. 9. It is not difficult to understand why a cash-strapped, understaffed publication might feel pressure to cut teams of investigative reporter's ..... their work is expensive and time-consuming. A) Reporters:. B) Reporter's;. C) NO CHANGE. D) Reporters,. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reporters:. 10. Someone facing an audience may experience uncontrollable anxiety caused by the adrenal glands pumping the hormone epinephrine into the bloodstream. [15] As a result, muscles grow tense, sweat glands erupt, the body trembles, the heart pounds, and dizziness and nausea may occur. A) NO CHANGE. B) Similarly. C) Besides. D) As a matter of fact. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) NO CHANGE. 11. Horses are ..... cheaper than cars. A) Also. B) But. C) In addition to. D) However. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Also. 12. What makes the theremin a unique musical instrument? You play it without touching it. When you place your ..... the pitch will shift as your hands move through the air. Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition? A) Hands between the two antennas,. B) Hand's between the two antenna's,. C) Hands' between the two antennas,. D) Hands' between the two antennas',. E) Hands between the two antennae,. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hands between the two antennas,. 13. I haven't met him again since we ..... school ten years ago. A. have left B. leave C. left D. had left A) D. B) A. C) C. D) B. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) C. 14. The work of transportation planners generally includes evaluating current transportation needs, assessing the effectiveness of existing facilities, and improving those facilities or they design new ones. A) Designing. B) Design. C) NO CHANGE. D) To design. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Designing. 15. The most challenging thing for young musicians are to listen to the rest of the ensemble. A) No error. B) Are listening. C) Are listen. D) Is having listened. E) Is to listen. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Is to listen. 16. The dogs bark ..... at the thieves. A) Politely. B) Fiercely. C) Happily. D) Softly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fiercely. 17. Drinking water is scarce in desert areas like Las Vegas, ..... it needs to be shipped from water-rich states. A) No change. B) Vegas. C) Vegas:and. D) Vegas;. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vegas;. 18. Choose the sentence that is written in the active voice. A) The cake had been eaten by the children. B) The cake was eaten by the children. C) The cake by the children was eaten. D) The children ate the cake. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The children ate the cake. 19. Choose the sentence that maintains verb tense consistency. A) She finished her homework and goes to bed. B) She finishes her homework and went to bed. C) She finished her homework and went to bed. D) She finish her homework and goes to bed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She finished her homework and went to bed. 20. Research studies, one of them in 2012 by the Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism, declared that 66% of France's population was not drinking the recommended amount of water per day. [20] Likewise, the journal Public Health Nutrition, drew similar conclusions about residents of Los Angeles and New York. A) NO CHANGE. B) For instance. C) More directly,. D) Similar,. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) NO CHANGE. 21. Before I go to bed, I always brush my teeth; it's a shame my breath still smells horrible. A) Correct use of a semicolon. B) Incorrect use of a semicolon. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Correct use of a semicolon. 22. Which sentence contains a sentence structure error? A) After the rain stopped, we went outside. B) We went outside after the rain stopped. C) After the rain stopped. We went outside. D) We went outside, after the rain stopped. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) After the rain stopped. We went outside. 23. Traditionally, three types of igloos were constructed. A) Noun. B) Verb. C) Pronoun. D) Adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verb. 24. African-American life during the 1920s was documented in great detail by the writers and artists of the Harlem Renaissance. Far less is known about it during the Depression in the 1930s, the market for their work disappeared almost overnight when the stock market crashed. A) Depression, in the 1930s the market. B) NO CHANGE. C) Depression in the 1930s the market. D) Depression. In the 1930s, the market. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Depression. In the 1930s, the market. 25. Which revision best improves the clarity of the following sentence? Running down the street, the backpack was heavy on my shoulders. A) Running down the street, my backpack was heavy on my shoulders. B) The backpack was heavy on my shoulders as I ran down the street. C) Running down the street, I felt the backpack was heavy on my shoulders. D) The backpack, running down the street, was heavy on my shoulders. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Running down the street, I felt the backpack was heavy on my shoulders. 26. It also makes from little to no sense why those who play the sport gets paid the exorbitant amounts that they do, even though he is in effect doing the same thing that high school and college students do on a daily bases. A) Have gotten. B) Has gotten. C) NO CHANGE. D) Get. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Get. 27. Identify the adverb:Martha began to feel really confident. A) Martha. B) Feel. C) Confident. D) Really. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Really. 28. Select the correct usage of "its" or "it's": A) The dog wagged its tail. B) The dog wagged it's tail. C) The cat licked it's paw. D) Its raining outside. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The dog wagged its tail. 29. Which revision best clarifies pronoun usage in the following sentence? "Alex told Jordan that he would win the award." A) Alex told Jordan that Alex would win the award. B) Alex told Jordan that he, Alex, would win the award. C) Alex told Jordan that he would win the award. D) Alex told Jordan that Jordan would win the award. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alex told Jordan that Alex would win the award. 30. One of my sisters (a) going on a trip to France. A) A. is. B) Are. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. is. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTest Prep QuizzesGrammar QuizzesSat Grammar Quiz 1Sat Grammar Quiz 2Sat Grammar Quiz 3Sat Grammar Quiz 4Sat Grammar Quiz 5Sat Grammar Quiz 6Sat Grammar Quiz 7Sat Grammar Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books