Sample Questions for the Final Exam

Label the parts of speech in the following sentence
The students are very scared of the final exam.

--Write down the eight parts of speech

Label the independent and dependent clauses:
I eat chocolate when I am depressed.

Write a sentence with a dependent clause first, then an independent clause.

Place the commas in the right place:
Did you know Steve that Chinese New Year is in February?
I invited James Laura and Michelle to the party.
The class was boring and I didn’t understand the assignments. However the teacher was funny.

Where does the semicolon go? Why can you use a semicolon instead of a period?
Happiness is in the mind sadness is in the heart.

Where does the colon go? Why does it go there?
I like three bands Nirvana, The Roots, and The Buzzcocks.

Where does the dash go? Why?
Jimmy whose ex-wife hates him is a good police officer with a drinking problem.

--How do you use a period?
--When do you use a question mark?

Correct the shift in time:
Gary feels sad, so he went to the doctor.

Correct the shift in person:
Students need to study more efficiently. If a student doesn’t study effectively, it doesn’t matter how many hours they study.

Label the verbal:
Playing basketball is the only worthwhile hobby.

Correct for parallelism:
A good president should have a forceful personality, be an informed mind, and a loving heart.

Label the three basic sentence patterns

Correct for subject-verb agreement
Everyone who enjoys sports love to meet professional athletes.

Correct the following sentence:
Limping in pain, Ted helped the injured man get to the hospital.