Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar - Muschla Gary Robert 2010

A Puzzle About You
Proofreading for mistakes in grammar
Usage and proofreading

If you get all of the following right, you will learn something about yourself. What are you?

To answer the question, read each sentence below and decide if the statement is true or false. If it is true, write the letter for true in the space above the sentence number at the bottom of the page. If it is false, write the letter for false. You will need to divide the letters into words.

1. Eight different kinds of words, called parts of speech, make up English.

W. True

I. False

2. A declarative sentence asks a question.

W. True

G. False

3. An interrogative sentence gives an order.

O. True

I. False

4. An imperative sentence always ends with an exclamation point.

S. True

A. False

5. In some sentences, the complete subject and the simple subject are the same.

Z. True

N. False

6. A simple predicate is a verb or verb phrase.

H. True

A. False

7. A complete sentence must have a subject and a predicate.

R. True

D. False

8. Only declarative sentences end with a period.

T. True

M. False