This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Test Prep > Sat > Sat Grammar – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Sat Grammar Quiz 9 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Identify the error in the following sentence: "Neither the students nor the teacher have arrived." A) Subject-verb agreement error. B) Punctuation error. C) Verb tense inconsistency. D) Sentence fragment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Subject-verb agreement error. 2. Whats an example of concision in a sentence? A) Joe lives very much closer to the park than the school. B) Joe lives closer to the park than the school. C) Joe lives much more closer to the park then the school. D) Joe lives closer and more near the park than the school. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Joe lives closer to the park than the school. 3. Surfing (riding the waves on a wooden or plastic board) gained much of its' popularity in the 1950s and 60s in Hawaii, California, and Australia. A) Much of their popularity. B) Much of its popularity. C) [NO CHANGE]. D) Much of it's popularity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Much of its popularity. 4. Musicians should carefully craft a strategy for their online streaming-the ability for their music to be heard instantly via the internet through a computer or mobile device) to achieve maximum popularity. A) Streaming; the ability. B) Streaming. The ability. C) Streaming (the ability. D) [NO CHANGE]. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Streaming; the ability. 5. Identify the verb in the following sentence: "She quickly finished her homework." A) Quickly. B) She. C) Homework. D) Finished. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Finished. 6. Awarded a Newbery Medal, Doll Bones are the story of three children's quest to return a haunted doll to its proper grave site. A) Have been. B) Were. C) Is. D) No change. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Is. 7. What was the acronym that we used for capitalization? A) M.I.N.T.S. B) N.A.S.A. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) M.I.N.T.S. 8. Fifty percent of the people alive today haveA never made a phone call, butB thirty percent stillC have no electricity connections to theirD homes. No errorE. A) D. B) B. C) E. D) A. E) C. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B. 9. The length and intensity of such episodes [2] varies from person to person. A) Vary person to person. B) NO CHANGE. C) Varies among people. D) Vary from person to person. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vary from person to person. 10. The board of directors often criticized the museum director by her habit of choosing provocative artworks that made visitors angry, but they had to admit that her tactic increased ticket sales. A) For. B) Over. C) In. D) No change. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) For. 11. Alexandre Dumas's 19th century novel The Three Musketeers tell dramatic adventure stories about the French royal guard two centuries earlier. Choose 1 answer: A) NO CHANGE. B) Are telling. C) Were telling. D) Tells. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tells. 12. Which sentence uses punctuation correctly for an introductory phrase? A) After, the game we went out for pizza. B) After the game we, went out for pizza. C) After the game we went out for pizza. D) After the game, we went out for pizza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) After the game, we went out for pizza. 13. What part of speech is the word in italics? Jane walked slowly. A) Noun. B) Linking verb. C) Action verb. D) Adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Adverb. 14. Choose the correct word to complete the sentence: "Neither the teacher nor the students ..... ready for the exam." A) Were. B) Are. C) Was. D) Is. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Is. 15. Its easy to see-even on the dreariest of days, how Paris earned it's reputation as the City of Love. A) It's easy to see, even on the dreariest of days, how Paris earned its. B) Its easy to see, even on the dreariest of days, how Paris earned its. C) NO CHANGE. D) It's easy to see even on the dreariest of days how Paris earned it's. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It's easy to see, even on the dreariest of days, how Paris earned its. 16. What can I add to fix a run on? A) Period. B) Elipses. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Period. 17. Which sentence uses proper punctuation? A) My favorite colors are blue green and red. B) My favorite colors are blue, green, and red. C) My favorite colors are blue green, and red. D) My favorite colors are blue, green and red. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) My favorite colors are blue, green, and red. 18. Neither of the students ..... finished their report before the deadline. A) Has. B) Were. C) Had. D) Have. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Has. 19. Insects can be reared as mini-livestock in small, urban spaces and, in fact, thrives in high-density, vertical environments. A) Is thriving. B) NO CHANGE. C) Has thrived. D) Thrive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thrive. 20. HE dreamed he was alone on a deserted island. A) SP. B) OP. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) SP. 21. It ought to be her with whom you share your secrets, not me. A) Her with whom you share your secrets, not I. B) She with whom you share your secrets, not me. C) She with whom you share your secrets, not I. D) Her with who you share your secrets, not me. E) Her with whom you share your secrets, not me. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Her with whom you share your secrets, not me. 22. Select the sentence that uses a semicolon to join two independent clauses. A) I finished my homework:now I can relax. B) I finished my homework, now I can relax. C) I finished my homework; now I can relax. D) I finished my homework; because now I can relax. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I finished my homework; now I can relax. 23. Choose the best word to complete the sentence:The ..... of the medicine was positive. A) Infect. B) Defect. C) Effect. D) Affect. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Effect. 24. The ..... feathers shimmered brightly in the sunlight. A) Peacocks. B) Peacock's. C) Peacocks's. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peacock's. 25. Identify the subject-verb agreement error in the following sentence: "The list of items are on the table." A) Are. B) Items. C) List. D) Table. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Are. 26. Select the sentence that uses correct subject-verb agreement. A) The team have winning the game. B) The team were winning the game. C) The team are winning the game. D) The team is winning the game. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The team is winning the game. 27. Amidst the majestic hills of South Dakota, where iron ore was once mined, that young sparrows once frolicked. A) Amidst the majestic hills of South Dakota; iron ore was once mined and young sparrows once frolicked. B) Young sparrows once frolicked, and iron ore was once mined, amidst the majestic hills of South Dakota. C) [NO CHANGE]. D) Where iron ore was once mined amidst the majestic hills of South Dakota:now young sparrows frolic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) [NO CHANGE]. 28. What change, if any, should be made to the following sentence:I was sitting their with my mom. A) Change 'sitting' to 'sit'. B) No change. C) Change 'their' to 'they're'. D) Change 'their' to 'there'. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Change 'their' to 'there'. 29. While her medal, along with the medals of 910 others, were unfortunately taken away when Congress revised the Medal of Honor standards in 1917, an Army Board eventually reinstated Walker's award posthumously, reciting her "distinguished gallantry, self-sacrifice, patriotism, dedication; and unflinching loyalty to her country, despite the apparent discrimination because of her sex." A) Is. B) NO CHANGE. C) Was. D) Being. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Was. 30. Small, flat structures called spatulae are found at the tips of the hairs on a spider's leg. These spatulae temporarily bond with the atoms of whatever they touch ..... spiders are able to cling to and climb almost any surface. Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition? A) Similarly,. B) However,. C) For instance,. D) As a result,. 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