Unit 2 Grammar - Parts of Speech

Question 1

Which word is a possessive pronoun? Many New England colonists built their homes out of logs.

Accepted Answer

their

Question 2

Locate the concrete noun. They crossed the desert in searing heat, with very little water to quench their thirst.

Accepted Answer

water

Question 3

Which is the collective noun? No driver of a stagecoach could handle a team of horses as skillfully as Charlie.

Accepted Answer

team

Question 4

Pick the correct personal prounouns to replace the bolded words: School children across America sing this song often.

Accepted Answer

They, it

Question 5

Which sentence(s) has a plural noun(s)?

Accepted Answer

Boys and girls crowded closer to see the dancing lions., The dancers practiced for the Lunar New Year for many months.

Question 6

Which sentence has a subordinating conjunction in it?

Accepted Answer

Because these workers were enslaved, they could not leave their jobs.

Question 7

Which sentence has a pair of correlative conjunctions?

Accepted Answer

Not only did they learn English, they also became fluent in Spanish.

Question 8

Identify the adverb is the following sentence: The alarm clock rang noisily in my ear.

Accepted Answer

noisily

Question 9

Which word in the sentence is an adjective? Sam has a small, shady garden.

Accepted Answer

small

Question 10

Which of the sentences has a proper noun in bold type?

Accepted Answer

No one knows exactly when Leif Ericson sailed to North America.

Question 11

Which of thes nouns is an abstract noun? In the colonial period, some settlers built cabin out of whole logs.

Accepted Answer

period

Question 12

Which of the following sentences has a linking verb in BOLD faced type?

Accepted Answer

This stamp is the oldest one in my collection.

Question 13

What are the proper noun(s) in this sentence? The cruel King Minos ruled the island of Crete.

Accepted Answer

King Minos, Crete

Question 14

What is the helping verb in the following sentence? Our family has visited Paul Revere's house in Boston, Massachusetts.

Accepted Answer

has

Question 15

Which is the possesive noun? The colonists' friend, Squanto had helped them build houses and plant crops.

Accepted Answer

colonists&#x27;

Question 16

What is the main verb in the following sentence: Our family has visisted Paul Revere's house in Boston, Massachusetts.

Accepted Answer

visited

Question 17

Pick the sentence that has the adjectives ordered correctly.

Accepted Answer

The five, boxy, black cars are from the 1920s.

Questions 17