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Practice Test (Module 1 Unit 1 Grammatical Terms) Flashcards

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  1. Which of the following sentences contains a PARTICIPLE CLAUSE?

    Answer: Having finished the exam, he left the room.

    A participle clause uses a participle (present or past) to form a non-finite clause that modifies the main clause.

  2. The term 'LEXICAL VERB' refers to:

    Answer: verbs that carry the main meaning in a sentence

    Lexical (or main) verbs carry the primary meaning of the clause, as opposed to auxiliary verbs which support them.

  3. Which of the following is an example of a SUFFIX?

    Answer: -ness in 'happiness'

    A suffix is an affix added to the end of a word; '-ness' is added to 'happy' to form the noun 'happiness.'

  4. In the sentence 'Neither the students nor the teacher was prepared,' which grammatical rule is illustrated?

    Answer: subject-verb agreement with correlative conjunctions

    With correlative conjunctions like 'neither…nor,' the verb agrees with the subject closest to it.

  5. Which of the following is a COORDINATING CONJUNCTION?

    Answer: but

    Coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) join grammatically equal elements.

  6. A GERUND is best described as:

    Answer: a verb form ending in -ing that functions as a noun

    A gerund is an -ing verb form that acts as a noun in a sentence (e.g., 'Swimming is fun').

  7. In the TKT, the term 'SYNTAX' refers to:

    Answer: the rules governing the arrangement of words in sentences

    Syntax is the branch of grammar concerned with how words combine to form grammatical sentences and phrases.