SAT Prep Grammar Practice Quiz

When the Beatles were introduced in America, everyone wanted copies of the original singles.

Sue and Ann went to a party for a friend of (theirs / their's).

(Who / Whom) was Martin Luther King's mentor?

Tom would have understood those words he would have believed them, too.

Almost 90 percent of a patrol (officers / officer's) job is running service calls.

Everyone on the committee (tries / try) to solve the problem.

(Its / It's) not surprising that Jack's painting won first prize.

The puppy's favorite activity was chasing (its / it's) tail.

Gudrun and Thorvald made up new Icelandic names for Javier and (I / me) on the spot.

I would like to manage the theater alone rather ____ depend on other people for assistance.

The cat meowed and yawned, stretching ____ back in an arch-like motion.

Fables are short stories that (conveys / convey) a moral.

A (crocodile's / crocodiles') life span is about thirteen years.

Also promoted them, arranged club dates for them, and badgered record companies for them.

There (is / are) many committee meetings and much discussion.

A central motif in the field of economics (is / are) guns and butter.

I hope that ____ grades will be even better than last semester.

Before reaching college, nearly everyone already (knows / know) several facts about fables.

The tutor was satisfied that Max had (wrote / written) a fairly intelligent essay.

Yuri arrived in the United States (at / on / in) a Wednesday in June.

There (is / are) generally only two or three characters in an Aesop fable.

The fable "Belling the Cat" (describes / describe) the long battle between mice and cats.

From the minute we arrived in Iceland, the steep prices astonished Javier and (I / me).

The employee (who / whom) we at first suspected was in Cleveland on the night of the theft.