Also called: TEAS-style English · HESI A2-style grammar · English language usage
Free English grammar & language usage (entrance exams) multiple-choice practice questions with hints and explanations, at three levels: key terms and facts, applying the concepts, cases and analysis.
Which sentence is declarative?
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Every word in a sentence has a job:
The same word can change jobs: “fast” is an adjective in “a fast car” and an adverb in “she ran fast”.
Answer: Adverb. “Peacefully” tells how the patient slept, so it describes the verb. An adjective would describe a noun.
A singular subject takes a singular verb, a plural subject a plural verb. Find the real subject first: in “The list of vaccines is on the wall” the subject is “list”, not “vaccines”.
Pronoun case: use the subject form (I, she, who) as a subject and the object form (me, her, whom) after verbs and prepositions: “between you and me”, “to whom”. Test by removing the other person: “She and I went” → “I went”.
Possessive pronouns never take an apostrophe: its, yours, theirs. It’s means “it is”.
Answer: The box of gloves is empty.. The subject is “box” (singular), so the verb is “is”. “Of gloves” is a prepositional phrase and does not change the subject.
Keep the tense consistent unless the time really changes. The present perfect links past and present (“has lived here since 2015”); the past perfect shows the earlier of two past events (“had already left when we arrived”).
Learn the common irregular verbs: break–broke–broken, write–wrote–written, lie (recline)–lay–lain, lay (put)–laid–laid.
After linking verbs (feel, seem, look) use an adjective: “I feel bad.” Describe actions with adverbs: “She did well.”
A modifier must sit next to the word it describes. “Walking into the room, the lights turned on” is a dangling modifier: the lights were not walking.
Answer: She has written the report.. After “has” you need the past participle “written”. “Wrote” is the simple past, and “have” does not agree with “she”.
A sentence needs a subject, a verb and a complete thought; otherwise it is a fragment (“Because the road was icy.”). Two sentences joined with only a comma form a comma splice.
Sentence types: simple (one independent clause), compound (two joined by a conjunction), complex (an independent clause plus a dependent clause).
Fix this sentence: “The nurse checked the chart, the doctor’s orders had changed.”
“The nurse checked the chart” and “the doctor’s orders had changed” can each stand alone, so the comma between them is a comma splice.
Use a semicolon, a full stop, or a comma with a conjunction. A subordinating word can also show how the ideas connect.
“When the nurse checked the chart, she saw that the doctor’s orders had changed.” or “The nurse checked the chart; the doctor’s orders had changed.”
Join the clauses with a semicolon, a conjunction or a subordinating word, or split them into two sentences.
Answer: The shift ended, so we went home.. Two independent clauses need a comma plus a conjunction. Using only a comma creates a comma splice.
Tricky spellings: necessary, separate, receive, definitely, accommodate, occurred, embarrass, privilege, conscience, maintenance.
Register: formal writing (emails to an instructor, reports) avoids slang (awesome, stuff), abbreviations (ASAP) and casual greetings. Be concise: “because” beats “due to the fact that”.
Answer: affect. A verb meaning “influence” is needed, so “affect” is correct. “Effect” is normally a noun, and “except” and “accept” mean something else.
Read the sentence aloud in your head with each option; then check it against the rule rather than trusting the sound alone.
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Which spelling is correct for the second month of the year?
“February” has an r after the b: Feb-ru-ary. It is often misspelled because the first r is not always pronounced.
Which spelling is correct for the word that means “to provide room for”?
“Accommodate” has a double c and a double m.
Which sentence clearly means that she likes her patients more than her coworkers like them?
“More than her coworkers do” compares how much she and her coworkers like the patients. B compares the patients with the coworkers instead, and C and D change the meaning.
Every word in a sentence has a job:
The same word can change jobs: “fast” is an adjective in “a fast car” and an adverb in “she ran fast”.
Every question has four options, and only one is right. Stuck? Open a small hint first, and the full explanation only when you need it.