MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE BASIC GRAMMAR COURSE

Diagnostic Test July, 2019

NAME: _________________________________________________

INSTRUCTIONS: Answer ALL questions.

PART ONE – Grammar

Part two is grammar. It is divided into five sections. Answer all questions in this part.
SECTION 1

From the list below choose the appropriate term for each of the ten definitions.

phrase, simple sentence, headword, sentence, grammar, declarative sentence, compound

sentence, clause, adjectival clause, adverbial clause, complex sentence, prepositional phrase,
prefix, noun clause

1. A sentence that gives information: _____________________

2. A clause that functions as a subject, subject complement, direct object etc.: _____________

3. The largest unit of grammatical description: ____________

4. A clause type that tells of time, place, manner, reason, purpose, etc. : _____________

5. The main word in a phrase which is modified by other parts of the phrase: ___________

6. A sentence in which independent clauses are linked by coordinating conjunctions:

_______________

7. A sentence in which the subordinate clause is part of the main clause: ______________

8. A word or group of related words without a subject-verb pair: ________________

9. A clause that modifies a noun or pronoun: ________________

10. The ordering of words in a sentence: ________________

SECTION 2

Place the letter of the word from the bold-faced sentence that best matches the part of speech. A

strange man saw her run quickly down the road to the Red River and then dive in.
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___1. common noun A. strange B. man C. her D. the E. Red River

___2. proper noun A. man B. her C. road D. to E. Red River

___3. pronoun A. man B. her C. the D. and E. in

___4. adjective A. strange B. saw C. quickly D. then E. in

___5. verb A. saw B. quickly C. down D. to E. then

___6. adverb A. run B. quickly C. down D. road E. to

___7. preposition A. run B. road C. the D. to E. and

___8. conjunction A. strange B. quickly C. down D. to E. and

SECTION 3

Classify the Underlined word groups into: noun phrase, verb phrase or prepositional phrase.

1. Sometimes I answer questions about products and services

2. Other times I check balances for customers.

3. Oh, and I also help my boss.

4. He opens new accounts for customers and talks to them about investments.

5. I give customers information about our interest rates and help them with forms, that sort of

thing.
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