Grammar and Usage Flashcards
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Which sentence uses the correct subject-verb agreement?
Answer: The team is playing well.
In American English, collective nouns like 'team' are typically treated as singular and take a singular verb.
Identify the correct use of a comma in the following options:
Answer: She loves hiking, biking, and swimming.
Commas are used to separate three or more items in a series (Oxford comma before 'and' is standard in US usage).
Which sentence is written in the active voice?
Answer: The children ate the cake.
Active voice means the subject performs the action; 'The children ate the cake' has the subject (children) doing the eating.
What is a 'pronoun antecedent' agreement error?
Answer: A pronoun that does not match its noun in number or gender
A pronoun must agree with the noun it replaces in number (singular/plural) and gender.
Which word is an example of a coordinating conjunction?
Answer: But
Coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) join two independent clauses.
A run-on sentence occurs when:
Answer: Two independent clauses are joined without proper punctuation or conjunction
A run-on sentence joins two or more independent clauses without the correct punctuation or a coordinating conjunction.