8th Grade: How's Your Grammar? Trivia Quiz
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How good is your grammar? Can you pass this 8th-grade grammar test? If you think you know everything about the grammar taught in 8-grade, you can easily ace this quiz. We have got some grammar-specific questions for you in this quiz. So, you have to be pretty confident while taking this quiz. Proceed with the quiz, and see how well you remember the 8th-grade grammar. All the best! You can challenge your friends and others to check their scores on the quiz.
- 1.A sentence has a _______________________ if there are 2 or more verbs that each have the same subject. Ex: We ate and drank until we were full.
- A.
Modifier
- B.
Simple subject
- C.
Compound predicate
- D.
Compound subject
- 2.The complete subject in the following example is? Ex: The jolly young man told good jokes all the time.
- A.
Young man
- B.
The jolly young man told good jokes all the time.
- C.
The jolly young man
- D.
Told good jokes all the time
- 3.A compound sentence is two or more simple sentences joined together. Most compound sentences are joined by?
- A.
Predicates
- B.
Pronouns
- C.
Conjunctions
- D.
Independent clauses
- 4.A semicolon (;) can take the place of a conjunction in a compound sentence?
- A.
True
- B.
False
- C.
Only if it is a coordinating conjunction
- D.
Only when the semicolon comes after a dependent clause
- 5.An independent clause:
- A.
Cannot stand alone and is an incomplete thought
- B.
Always begins with a subordinating conjunction
- C.
Must contain a dependent clause
- D.
Can stand alone as a sentence
- 6.A dependent clause can also be referred to as:
- A.
Main clause
- B.
Subordinate clause
- C.
A complete thought
- D.
Prepositional phrase
- 7.Another kind of incomplete sentence is a:
- A.
Incomplete predicate
- B.
Sentence fragment
- C.
Coordinating conjunction
- D.
Incomplete subject
- 8.A complex sentence:
- A.
Contains one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses (location does not matter)
- B.
In a complex sentence, a dependent clause must come before the independent clause.
- C.
In a complex sentence, a dependent clause must come in the middle of the independent clause.
- D.
In a complex sentence, a dependent clause must come after the independent clause.
- 9.In the following sentence, who or what is the subject? Lauren was singing and dancing in the park.
- A.
Lauren
- B.
Singing and dancing
- C.
Park
- D.
Was
- 10.A Predicate is defined as:
- A.
Says something about the noun (verb or action)
- B.
an adjective describing a verb
- C.
Preposition describing a verb
- D.
The pronoun used in place of a noun
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