WR 121
Grammar/Mechanics Skills Test
DIRECTIONS: Part of each word group below is underlined. If the underlined part appears to be correct, Mark A on the scantron. If the underlined part appears to be faulty, mark B.
1. Rocky works at the pizzeria. Every weekend and on Tuesday and Thursday nights.
2. Before we entered the house, Corinna peeked through all the windows. No one was home.
3. Simon danced across the rain-soaked lawn. His shirt-tail flapping in the breeze.
4. Whenever you get the urge to sing. Be brave.
5. Hearing the old song, I started to cry. It reminded me of you.
6. I looked for my dog in the fields behind my house, he was gone.
7. I had told everyone in the neighborhood to watch out for him he didn’t show up for three days.
8. We never found out where he had been.
9. I believe he made friends with old man Fletcher, he lives in the abandoned barn.
10. Someday I plan to visit the old man and I’ll bring him cookies.
11. Its the least we can do for him.
12. The barn and the surrounding fields have been in his fathers family for many generations.
13. They’re originally from Arkansas.
14. Your familiar with that old barn, aren’t you?
15. I once took a picture of its south side and one of the north side.
16. Both of the pictures is prize winners.
17. Every one of the photos in my many journals are important to me.
18. Brice and Kevin, in between chemistry and physics, has studied photography.
19. A line of dark clouds is forming on the horizon.
20. The pulses emitted by a neutron star recur at precise intervals.
21. Yesterday, Miles carries his trumpet to band.
22. Miles has wore the same shirt for a week.
23. After running the Boston Marathon, Shelley return to a sedentary life.
24. Before the marathon, she had run ten miles every day.
25. Her marathon record has never been broke.
26. Corinna has invented her own mathematical system.
27. Professors should follow his or her own rules.
28. Neither of these books lives up to their reputation.
29. After Mary talked with Angie, she got angry.
30. Last year, I performed in three plays and held a part-time job, but now I don’t have time to do it.
31. William reached for the silver applies of the moon , and the golden apples of the sun.
32. Is John Updike the author of the poem Piano Player?
33. We laughed and sang old songs together , but soon the morning arrived and made us strangers again.
34. If I had only known how important she was to me , I would have made more of an effort to show her.
35. Now that she’s gone , I’m left with only memories.
36. Researchers are studying the affect of antidepressants.
37. I will not except late homework.
38. Alot of teachers on campus have the same policy.
39. If only she had received her grant money, she would of purchased her books on time.
40. She has had to many purchases recently.
41. Imagine that you and your daughter are walking in the forest or hiking on the beach.
42. Some children must deal with an overprotective parent, a hostile sibling, and to live in a single parent home.
43. After our freshman year, my friend Tom and me were trying to decide if we wanted to major in business.
44. The manager of Quality Pie Must see that the business runs smooth and efficient.
45. All animals are equal – but some are more equal than others.
46. Everyone is a genius at least once a year , a real genius has his (or her) original ideas closer together.
47. When choosing between two evils , I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before.
48. I don’t know who my grandfather was , I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
49. If fifty million people say a foolish thing , it is still a foolish thing.
50. I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor , rich is better.