Jeopardy! Grammar Exam #2

1. Jeopardy! Grammar Exam #2

2. Category 1 – 10 points Define a sentence fragment.

3. Category 1 – 20 points What are the two kinds of run-on sentences?

4. Category 1 – 30 points • Which sentence is correct? • On Monday we went outside for recess it was fun. • On Monday we went outside for recess, it was fun. • On Monday we went outside for recess, and it was fun. • On Monday we went outside for recess and it was fun.

5. Category 1 – 40 points How do you fix a fragment?

6. Category 1 – 50 points What are the four ways to fix a run-on?

7. Category 2 – 10 points In the following paragraph, identify the number of fragments and run-ons. You will need to be able to defend your answer: It soon became obvious that Luke’s love of dinosaurs would endure. Anything with dinosaur patterns elicited from Luke expressions of sheer glee. So nearly every gift from his friends or family catered to this taste.

8. Category 2 – 20 points In the following paragraph, identify the number of fragments and run-ons. You will need to be able to defend your answer: My sister always dreamed of being a singer. She had grandiose dreams of being famous despite the reproving looks from our every practical grandma. Grandma was a stalwart German who believed things like singing and dancing were frivolous and wouldn’t help in the face of a depression, the rest of us pretended not to notice.

9. Category 2 – 30 points In the following paragraph, identify the number of fragments and run-ons. You will need to be able to defend your answer: As my family gathered around the table, my attention focused on my faux china plate where the source of the reeking smell was laid out before me, it was green!! Not just any green. It was a dark sinister, depressing green, as if from a deep dark forest. The long stalks lay on my plate. Contaminating the wonderful and blessed mashed potatoes and gravy. The pigment grew more menacing the deeper the layers went.

10. Category 2 – 40 points In the following paragraph, identify the number of fragments and run-ons. You will need to be able to defend your answer: Before long, representations of dinosaurs adorned his bed sheets and pillow cases. His shower curtain, his bath mat, and even the walls of his room. When Luke’s teachers completed the dinosaur unit and moved onto Native Americans. Luke’s passion for the former did not abate. His parents arranged a trip to various zoos and museums, they visited New York’s Museum of Natural History, whose dinosaur display enthralled the future paleontologist.

11. Category 2 – 50 points In the following paragraph, identify the number of fragments and run-ons. You will need to be able to defend your answer: It had been a long week, the ever aloof Rosemary got up from her last meeting, patted her hair into place and strode toward the exit. When Harry, the bumbling mail boy cut her off as she rounded the corner. “Oh goodness, ma’am, I’m so sorry,” Harry stuttered as he banged the cart into cubical walls. Trying to get out of her way. Rosemary just stood there, tapping her foot, not a modicum of empathy for the terrified boy. When he finally pulled the cart back, crumpling to the floor behind it, Rosemary strode forward without looking behind her.

12. Category 3 – 10 points Determine if each sentence is a fragment, a run-on, a comma splice, or correct. Be able to explain your answer. She yelled.

13. Category 3 – 20 points Determine if each sentence is a fragment, a run-on, a comma splice, or correct. Be able to explain your answer. This is going to be the most difficult exam of your college career, you had better start studying for it immediately.

14. Category 3 – 30 points Determine if each sentence is a fragment, a run-on, a comma splice, or correct. Be able to explain your answer. Although he had been an often decorated soldier during World War II and had fought many battles for the losing cause of liberalism in Congress. *

15. Category 3 – 40 points Determine if each sentence is a fragment, a run-on, a comma splice, or correct. Be able to explain your answer. Knowing better than anyone else how the state legislature had ignored the needs of the community college system and created a crisis characterized by an uneducated workforce that had no place to go for proper training and realizing that someone had to do something about the situation or the state would begin to lose jobs to states in the American south that were more aggressive in providing and publicizing excellence in education, Representative Fuentes began to lay plans for an education bill that took into consideration the needs of the state's community colleges and the students who attended them.

16. Category 3 – 50 points Determine if each sentence is a fragment, a run-on, a comma splice, or correct. Be able to explain your answer. If we're ever going to get out of here in time, we're going to have to re-write all these papers, set up the desks, and clean the chalkboards; stack those books in the corner and clean up the mess around the wastebasket.

17. Category 4 – 10 points List, and fix if necessary, all contractions, plurals, or possessive forms in the following: 25,000 fans cheered enthusiastically.

18. Category 4 – 20 points List, and fix if necessary, all contractions, plurals, or possessive forms in the following: All the Harry Potter movies are showing next weekend; lets go see them!

19. Category 4 – 30 points List, and fix if necessary, all contractions, plurals, or possessive forms in the following: While many people in the city are familiar with the Orpheum, its best features are often lost amidst the throngs of people at shows.

20. Category 4 – 40 points List, and fix if necessary, all contractions, plurals, or possessive forms in the following: Lets get the childrens basketball signed by the colleges basketball team.

21. Category 4 – 50 points List, and fix if necessary, all contractions, plurals, or possessive forms in the following: A mans scuffle with officers went awry as he was hit with there Taser twice before officers handcuffed him.

22. Category 5 – 10 points Identify one way to use a comma and give an example of that way.

23. Category 5 – 20 points Identify one way to use a comma and give an example of that way.

24. Category 5 – 30 points Identify one way to use a comma and give an example of that way.

25. Category 5 – 50 points Add in missing commas, if needed. You will need to be able to defend your answer. While the novel contains numerous references examples and explanations about liquids like water sweat tears and even blood this analysis focuses on natural water.

26. Category 5 – 40 points Add in missing commas, if needed. You will need to be able to defend your answer. As Amabelle’s dreams reveal she remembers and she becomes further drawn to water throughout her life culminating in ending her life in water.

27. Final Jeopardy!As a team, decide how much you will wager (must be equal to or less than your team’s current total score).

28. Final Jeopardy! Add missing commas in this sentence:The beautiful brunette woman walked up to the tall handsome man grabbed his hand and said “Hello there.”

29. Final Jeopardy! ANSWER:The beautiful brunette woman walked up to the tall, handsome man, grabbed his hand, and said, “Hello there.”