Basic Three English Grammar Second Term

CHRISTMAS TERM 2019/2020 EXAMINATION

SUBJECT: ENGLISH LANGUAGE

CLASS: BASIC THREE

NAME OF PUPIL: …………………………………………………………

DATE ………………………..

PART A

OBJECTIVES

INSTRUCTION: Choose the best answer from the given alternative

1. Capital letters are used at the beginning of words that are proper nouns.
2. True (b) False (c) Not sure
3. Capital letters are used at the beginning of the title of a book (a) True (b) False (c) Not sure
4. Capital letters are used in the middle of words that are prepositions (a)True (b) False (c) Not sure
5. Most word that are common always have capital letters as their last letters
6. True (b) False (c) Not sure
7. Capital letters are always used to write out acronyms (a) True (b) False (c) Not sure
8. Another name for full stop is (a) Pause (b) Panic (c) Period
9. Full stops are used to indicate the of a sentence (a) end (b) middle (c) beginning
10. Quotation marks are also known as (a) Inverted commas (b) Hyphenated dash (c) Reported speech
11. Words that are written in quotation marks indicate (a) Orders that must be obeyed b)Instructions that may be neglected (c) The actual word of the speaker
12. Hurray it’s my birthday today, the part of speech of the underlined word is a)Conjunction (b) Exclamation mark (c) Quotation mark
13. Where are you going, the part of speech of the underlined word is  a) Noun (b) Pronoun (c) Adjective

Circle the noun in this sentence, my dad is sleeping (a) My (b) Dad (c) Is

God is good. What part of speech is good? (a) Noun (b) Adjective (c) Verb

There are ______ parts of speech (a) eight (b) nine (c) ten

___________ are descriptive words (a) Pronouns (b) Adjective (c) Conjunctions

Write out all the adverb in this sentence,

1. I saw him at the park yesterday a)At (b) Park (c) Yesterday
2. Suddenly it started to rain, the adverb in the above sentence a) Suddenly (b) Started (c) Rain
3. ____________are naming words. (a) Nouns (b) Pronouns (c) Preposition
4. A is a word which slows relationship between two or more things is called  _____________ a)Conjunction (b) Preposition (c) Adverb
5. The King walks majestically, the adverb in the sentence is a)King (b) Walks (c) Majestically

PART B THEORY

1a. What is an adjective? _______________________________________________________

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1b. List out three parts of speech you know

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Fill the gaps

2a.

3a. What is a clause?___________________________________________________

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3b. Write out two examples of clause

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4 Fill the gap with the correct preposition.

1. This book is made wood
2. I prefer rice bread
3. Please kindly switch the fan
4. My dad is an accountant. He works a bank.

5. Fill in the gaps