1. Core Test Grammar Review

2.  In the following slides, your knowledge of parts of speech, sentence structures, commas, adverbs, colons, and parentheses will be tested in an effort to prepare you for the core test. With each word you see on the following slides, you will need to either define it or give an example of it. After you finish, the person next to you will do the next word and so on. The trick is to answer as many as you can before the timer rings, and you don’t want the timer to ring while it is your turn or the other team wins a point. Good luck!

3. DAY’S MARKET

4. TO WANDER

5. GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF USING PARENTHESES.

6. THOUGH I LOVE SUMMER I DO NOT LIKE ALL THE BUGS THAT COME OUT.

7. LIST ONE COLON RULE.

8. ADJECTIVE

9. I RAN A MARATHON, AND I TOOK 1 ST PLACE.

10. INFINITIVE VERB PHRASE

11. FOURTEEN

12. GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF USING A COMMA WITH AN INTRODUCTORY PHRASE

13. A popover has four common ingredients flour, milk, salt, and butter.

14. RUNNING

15. TO SWIM

16. HIKE

17. BLUE

18. PRONOUN

19. THEY

20. HE

21. THAT

22. A, AN, THE

23. FOR, AND, NOR, BUT, OR, YET, SO

24. OVER

25. NOUN

26. IN

27. WAS HIKING

28. BY

29. ADVERB

30. IS

31. THROUGH

32. ABOVE

33. YIKES!

34. WAS

35. AM RUNNING

36. WOW!

37. RUNNING SHOES

38. BECAUSE, SINCE

39. HIKING BOOTS

40. HELPING VERB

41. I RAN A MARATHON.

42. INTERJECTIONS

43. WHEN I WAS FIFTY, I RAN A MARATHON, AND I TOOK 1 ST PLACE.

44. PREPOSITION

45. WHEN I WAS FIFTY, I RAN A MARATHON.

46. CONJUNCTION

47. DOG

48. SIMPLE SENTENCE

49. LINKING VERB

50. GERUND

51. COMPOUND SENTENCE

52. PARTICIPLE

53. COMPOUND COMPLEX SENTENCE

54. GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF USING A COMMA WITH AN INTRODUCTORY PHRASE

55. DURING LUNCH I ATE PIZZA.

56. COMPLEX SENTENCE

57. WHILE SLEDDING BEHIND THE FOUR-WHEELER JEN BROKE HER ARM.

58. WHEN I WAS 12 I WAS AFRAID OF SPIDERS.

59. WHILE RIDING HIS BIKE JACK RAN OVER A SKUNK.

60. WHAT IS AN ADVERB?

61. JACK WHO HAS ORANGE SHOELACES IS FIFTEEN.

62.  A _____ is a signal that something is to follow: a rephrased statement, a list, or a formal quotation. Use a ______ if you can insert namely after it.   Use a _____ at the end of a complete statement to show anticipation—that is, to show that amplifying details follow, such as a list, a series of items, a formal quotation, or an explanation.

63. DURING THE MOVIE I STARTED TO CRY.

64. After five minutes of silence, the actor uttered those famous words “To be or not to be; that is the question.”

65. GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF AN ADVERB.

66. LIST ONE COLON RULE.

67. Of all the gauges in an airplane cockpit, three are crucial the altimeter, the gas gauge, and the crash- warning indicator.

68. MY MOM THE BEST COOK IN THE ENTIRE WORLD BOUGHT A NEW DRESS.

69. LIST ONE COLON RULE.

70. ACTION VERB

71. WHEN DO YOU USE PARENTHESES?

72. OH!

73. AM

74. SOFT

75. ARTICLE