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  • 1. 
    How many common nouns are there in the sentence "Carlos fed his two cats"?

  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 1

  • 2. 
    Which of these words refers to proper pronunciation?

  • orthotics
  • orthodoxy
  • orthoepy
  • orthography

  • 3. 
    Which of these refers to proper spelling?

  • orthodoxy
  • orthotics
  • orthodontics
  • orthography

  • 4. 
    Which word is correct in the sentence "If she _____ about his party, she would have gone"?

  • had known
  • knows
  • knew
  • will know

  • 5. 
    Which phrase is correct in the sentence, "I’ll ____their house while they’re gone"?

  • look on
  • look after
  • look over
  • look into

  • 6. 
    Which of these words is a preposition?

  • beneath
  • giving
  • hospital
  • Africa

  • 7. 
    Which of these words is a conjunction?

  • porcelain
  • and
  • merry-go-round
  • above

  • 8. 
    Which of these punctuation marks can be used to join two words into a single compound word?

  • hyphen
  • colon
  • ampersand
  • em dash

  • 9. 
    Which does not pertain to verbs?

  • imperfect
  • future
  • perfect
  • accusative

  • 10. 
    Which of these prefixes means "formerly"?

  • mid
  • post
  • ex
  • trans
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