Grammar Crammer: How to Write Perfect Sentences

Answers to Checkup Quizzes

ANSWERS TO CHECKUP QUIZZES Score as shown. If you score less than 900/0 on any quiz, review that section. If you score less than 650/0, buy and use a large grammar handbook. NOUNS (100 IS PERFECT SCORE) 1. Score Yi point for each correct answer (total: 42 points). roar ligament life raft size equally droopy lift-off equation brass Jones lady who noun? S A A S N N A A S A A N sing. pass. roar's (rare) ligament's life raft's size's lift-off's equation's brass's Jones's lady's 101 pl. pass. roars' (rare) ligaments' life rafts' sizes' lift-offs' equations' brasses' Joneses' ladies' 102 THE GRAMMAR CRAMMER noun? sing. pOSSe pl. pOSSe craze S craze's crazes' to N lens A lens's lenses' to dream S (none) so N equate N Staten Island A Staten Island's (none) very N dinnerware A dinnerware's (none) pity S pity's (none) blessing S blessing's (rare) blessings' (rare) to blossom S (none) communism A communism's (none) dancing S dancing's (rare) (none) elf A elf's elves' ghetto A ghetto's ghettos' or ghettoes' anybody else N* anybody else's (none) • This idiom is, strictly speaking, a pronoun, not a noun. 2. Score 3 points for each correct answer. piano player (not player piano) nailbrush nail file birdseed goosedown moonbeam comet tail guest towel war victims community citizens communist philosophy· • The shift here occurs mainly because it's hard to speak the phrase communism philosophy. Many words that seem exceptions to rules are the result of an attempt to make speech simpler or more comfortable. Answers to Checkup Quizzes 103 3. Score 1 point for each correct answer. They are, in order: Don Raux business sweepstakes people telling sweepstakes' appeal professors marketing seminar Wayne State University games ofchance professors hands hour's lecture Roux business card bottom chair stereo person skeptics chairs PRONOUNS (98 IS PERFECT SCORE) 1. Score2 points for each correct answer. a. who, his b. he, himself c. nobody, it 104 THE GRAMMAR CRAMMER d. me, those e. each, these, its f. one, one's (equally acceptable: she, her) g. one, oneself or one's self (less formal: one, himself or herself) h. everybody, he or she (if you said they're score 1 pt.), someone i. themselves j. his or her (not their) k. its (This means that the choir is writing as a group. If each member is writing a song, the sentence should read: The choir [members] are writing their own songs. For clarity, we would insert the word members.) 1. their, they, them (not it since the pronoun refers to the plural noun methods) 2. Score 2 points for each correct answer. a. its b. yours, his, theirs c . whose d. himself e. there's, whose f. I, whom g. whoever h. whom i. one j. one's, are k, stops 1. does m. does, his n. theirs o. it's, I, am p. theirs q. I, am (the verb reflects the person of the final pronoun ofa series), us Answers to Checkup Quizzes lOS VERBS (98 IS PERFECT SCORE) 1. Score 2 points for each correct answer. After class I laid my books on the table and set myself down (score 1 point for sat down) on a chair thatTdragged alongside (score 4 points extra if you deleted up) it. All at once I saw a paper lying there that I could havesworn I had given to my sister the day before. She probably had hopecITo hide it from met because it looked like it was torn. I would ha'Ve preferred (rather cannot be used as a verb in written English) she'd told (had told is okay too) me. Next time I lend something to hert she would do better not to rip it up and then try to squirrel it out of sight. I would not have lent it to her in the first place if I had known (I'd have known is okay) that she had become unable (she'd become unable is okay; score 1point for she'd gotten unable) to take care of things. 2. Score 2 points for each correct answer. a. will b. won't c. became or was; score 1 point for got, but do...