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Answers to the 8th Grade Test:
GRAMMAR (Time, one hour)
1. Give the nine rules for the use of Capital Letters.
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Always capitalize the first letter in a sentence or sentence fragment
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Always capitalize the first letter in a direct quotation
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Always capitalize the first letter in a direct question within a sentence
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Always capitalize the first letter in a line of poetry
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Always capitalize the first letter in proper nouns, including registered trademarks, names of treaties,
geological eras, planets, courts of law, the days of the week, and genera in zoology and botany
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Always capitalize the first letter in titles of books, magazines, newspapers, movies, works of art,
and music, except for conjunctions, prepositions, and articles (Gone With the Wind)
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Always capitalize the first letter in the names of ships, aircraft, and spacecraft (e.g., Sputnik)
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Always capitalize the first letter in peoples' names (e.g. John Smith)
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Always capitalize the first letter in a title preceding a person's name (e.g., Mr.)
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Always capitalize the first letter in words designating the Deity (e.g. God)
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Always capitalize the pronoun "I"
2. Name the parts of speech and define those that have no modifications.
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Noun: A word used in a sentence as a subject or object of a very or a preposition.
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Pronoun: A word used as a substitute for a noun and which refers to a person or thing.
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Adjectives: A word that modifies a noun.
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Verb: A word that expresses an act, occurrence, or mode of being.
3. Define:
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Verse: A line of metric writing
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Stanza: A series of lines within a poem that are arranged together and usually involve a recurring
pattern of meter and rhyme.
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Paragraph: A subdivision of a written composition consisting of one or more sentences dealing with
one point or giving the words of one speaker.
4. What are the principal parts of a verb?
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Transitive, intransitive, past, present, future, conditional, subjunctive
Give the principal parts of do, lie, lay, and run.
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Did, do, doing, shall do
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Lied, lie, lying, shall lie
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Lay, lay, laying, shall lay
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Ran, run, running, shall run
5. Define Case.
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A change in the form of a noun, pronoun, or adjective indicating its grammatical relation to other
words.
Illustrate each case.
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Near, nearer, nearest
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Nicely
6. What is Punctuation?
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Dividing a written matter with punctuation marks.
Give rules for principal marks of punctuation.
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Comma: Separates main clauses joined by a conjunction; separates words in a series; sets off an
adverbial clause.
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Semicolon: Links main clauses not joined by conjunctions.
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Colon: Introduces a clause that explains or amplifies what has gone on before.
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Period: Terminates a sentence.
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Hyphen: Used in some compound words.
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Question mark: Terminates a direct question.
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Exclamation point: Terminates an emphatic phrase or sentence.
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Apostrophe: Indicates the possessive case or omissions in contracted words.
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Parentheses: Sets off supplementary material.
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Quotation marks: Enclose direct quotations.
7-10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical
use of the rules of grammar.