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DGP Quiz #4
Use the following sentence to answer the questions below:
while were reading the novel of mice and men by john steinbeck well read to a mouse a
poem by robert burns
For questions 1-8, identify the part of speech for the word
indicated:
1) were
a. action verb future tense
b. helping verb past tense
c. first person nominative pronoun + helping
verb present tense
d. third person objective pronoun + linking
verb past tense
e. second person objective pronoun +
helping verb past tense
2) reading
a. action verb present tense
b. linking verb past tense
c. helping verb present tense
d. action verb future tense
e. helping verb future tense
3) the
a. adverb
b. adjective
c. article
d. participle
e. gerund
4) by
a. adverb
b. linking verb
c. helping verb
d. preposition
e. infinitive
5) while
a. action verb
b. coordinating conjunction
c. relative pronoun
d. preposition
e. subordinating conjunction
6) well
a. first person objective pronoun + helping
verb future tense
b. first person nominative pronoun + helping
verb future tense
c. second person objective pronoun +
helping verb future tense
d. third person nominative pronoun +
helping verb future tense
e. interjection
7) read
a. action verb future tense
b. linking verb future tense
c. helping verb present tense
d. preposition
e. infinitive
8) poem
a. proper noun
b. possessive common noun
c. possessive proper noun
d. common noun
e. pronoun
For questions 9-15, identify the sentence function (part of
the sentence) for the word(s) indicated:
9) we
a.
b.
c.
d.
10) novel
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
subject
appositive phrase
prepositional phrase
infinitive phrase
object of preposition
direct object
indirect object
subject
object of participle
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11) of mice and men
a. appositive
b. object of preposition
c. predicate nominative
d. direct object
e. object of infinitive
12) john steinbeck
a. subject
b. object of preposition
c. predicate nominative
d. predicate adjective
e. object of infinitive
13) will read
a. transitive verb
b. intransitive verb
c. infinitive phrase
d. prepositional phrase
e. predicate nomnative
14) to a mouse
a. subject
b. object of the preposition
c. direct object
d. object of gerund
e. infinitive phrase
15) by robert burns
a. participial phrase
b. gerund phrase
c. infinitive phrase
d. prepositional phrase
e. appositive phrase
16) a poem by robert burns
a. appositive phrase
b. object of the preposition
c. direct object
d. participial phrase
e. predicate nominative
17) What kind is the first clause?
a. Independent
b. Dependent
18) What kind is the second clause?
a. Independent
b. Dependent
c. There isn’t a second clause
19) What kind is the third clause?
a. Independent
b. Dependent
c. There isn’t a third clause
20) What kind of sentence is it?
a. Simple
b. Compound
c. Complex
d. Compound-complex
21) Rewrite the sentence below with proper
punctuation and capitalization (15 points)
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