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Basic Grammar Quiz

The following sentences all contain grammar errors. Please type the corrected sentences in the space provided. Spelling, punctuation, and word choice all count.

  • Example: Kevin felt badly about failing the Grammar test.
  • Correction: Kevin felt bad about failing the grammar test. 

There are 30 questions, and you have a total of 45 minutes to take the test. Good luck!

 

 

1 / 30

Speak clearer please.

2 / 30

The teacher tried to illicit a discussion about the novel.

3 / 30

Yesterday, Barry lay my jacket on the hood of the car.

4 / 30

He and she were real close friends.

5 / 30

The coach, not the players, have been ill.

6 / 30

That redwood tree has become taller then the oak tree next door.

7 / 30

They fought over their father’s estate because they felt angrily about the way he had treated them.

8 / 30

That SUV, that landed on its hood after the accident, was traveling at eighty miles per hour.

9 / 30

This phone call is for Bill and I.

10 / 30

Whomever drove in the carpool lane without any passengers will be fined.

11 / 30

She is one of the women who works hard.

12 / 30

l am doing fine. How about yoursell?

13 / 30

You look well in that running outfit.

14 / 30

The desk and the chair sits in the corner.

15 / 30

Don’t feel badly about forgetting my birthday.

16 / 30

We saw two puppies at the pound and took home the cutest one.

17 / 30

Each of us were scheduled to take the test.

18 / 30

Pollen effects my sinuses and makes me sneeze.

19 / 30

Your the only one for me.

20 / 30

La Donna talks fondly about the four years that she has went to the university.

21 / 30

There is only four days until Christmas.

22 / 30

Jake is the oldest of the two brothers.

23 / 30

May did good on the test she took yesterday.

24 / 30

It is us clerks who work hard.

25 / 30

Neither one of them are ready yet.

26 / 30

How will you be effected financially if downsizing means you will lose your job?

27 / 30

It’s a company who doesn’t judge others by their nationalities and accents.

28 / 30

Joan walks slow so her children can keep up with her.

29 / 30

Srdjian immigrated from his native Bosnia about five years ago.

30 / 30

Terrell is the smartest of the two.