grammar review for midterm

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Date:____________________________________________

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Dewalt Study Guide for Midterm Exam

Be sure to study all vocabulary words, and especially the literary terms that you have been given throughout the year so far. 

1.      What is a noun?

2.      What is a pronoun?

3.      What is an adjective and what does it modify?

4.      What is a verb?

5.      What is a preposition?

6.      What is a conjunction?

7.      What does FANBOYS represent?

Directions: Circle all the nouns in the following sentence.

8.      The mantis is an unusual insect of strange habits.

9.      This creature lives in many parts of the world.

10.  Perhaps twenty different species can be found in the United States.

11.  The mantis is a friend of the farmer.

12.  Its victims often include grasshoppers and caterpillars.

Circle all the pronouns in the following sentence.

13.  These are our tickets for Romeo and Juliet.

14.  I think my aunt would like to sit with us, if that is all right with you.

15.  She wants to see her son play the part of Mercutio, who is the best friend of Romeo.

16.  Your friend Mike designed most of the stage set himself, and he is very proud of it.

17.  It was the first Shakespeare play that some of us had ever seen.

Circle the adjectives and draw an arrow to the word it modifies or describes.

18.  The early Greeks readily believed that mantises had supernatural powers.

19.  The mantis is a long, predatory insect.

20.  The female mantis lays many eggs in a frothy mass.

21.  This mass hardens eventually into an egg case, which is fastened tightly to the woody stem of a plant.

22.  The tall milkweed is a very common place to find egg cases.

Circle the verbs in the sentence and tell me in the blank if it is a transitive or intransitive verb.

23.  Mr. Jenkin’s cat watched the birds in the trees.____________________________________________

24.  We will not buy a new car until next summer._____________________________________________

25.  The small boat moved slowly._________________________________________________________

26.  Diane tripped on the top step and fell downstairs.__________________________________________

27.  Please order a hamburger and a milkshake for me. _________________________________________

Circle the adverbs in the sentence and write what question it answers (How?, When?, or Where?)

28.  During the fire drill, everyone acted very calmly.

29.  The monkeys at the zoo swing wildly from branch to branch.

30.  The brown bears roared fiercely while lying on the rocks.

31.  I proudly displayed my field day ribbons on our refrigerator.

32.  I went bowling, yesterday, with my family.

Circle the prepositions and underline the prepositional phrases in the following sentences.

33.  You can find the dishwashing soap beneath the sink and behind the cleanser.

34.  According to the newspaper, the new statue will stand beside the river.

35.  Because of the heavy rains and flooding, the bus could not make it through the city.

36.  Please park the trailer in front of the house.

37.  Did you remember to place the scarecrow near the garden?

Circle the all the conjunctions in the following sentence AND underline the interjections.

38.  Gosh, it’s not blinking, and it does not seem to move like an airplane.

39.  People either believe in UFOs or they do not.

40.  Well, my friends Todd and Louisa believe in flying saucers, yet there is not much

evidence that they exist.

41.  I thought the light was coming closer, but it was just my imagination.

42.  Oops, the light is neither an airplane nor a UFO, but only the planet Venus.