ELEMENTARY EDUCATION CONTENT
ACTUAL EXAM FULL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A PLUS
●● common noun
Answer: a word (such as "singer," "ocean," or "car") that refers to a
person, place, or thing but that is not the name of a particular person,
place, or thing
●● collective noun
Answer: common collective nouns are class, crowd, flock, panel,
committee, group, audience, staff, and family. A collective noun is one
that in the singular form, denotes a number of separate persons or things.
●● Preposition
Answer: words that indicate location
(on, in, beside, above)
●● Conjunction
Answer: a part of speech that is used to connect words, phrases, clauses,
or sentences
(For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So)
,●● Participial Phrase
Answer: dressed up like verbs, but they function as adjectives to
describe nouns
Shivering, the couple ran out of the rain and into the house.
●● Prepositional Phrase
Answer: At home, In time
●● Appositive Phrase
Answer: An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another
noun right beside it
The insect, a cockroach, is crawling across the kitchen table.
●● Subject-verb agreement
Answer: A singular subject (she, Bill, car) takes a singular verb (is, goes,
shines), whereas a plural subject takes a plural verb.
●● present tense verb
Answer: write or writes
●● past tense verb
Answer: Wrote, played
, ●● present perfect tense
Answer: formed with a present tense form of "to have" plus the past
participle of the verb. This tense indicates either that an action was
completed (finished or "perfected") at some point in the past or that the
action extends to the present
I have walked, we have seen
●● Past perfect tense
Answer: indicates that an action was completed (finished or "perfected")
at some point in the past before something else happened. This tense is
formed with the past tense form of "to have" (HAD) plus the past
participle of the verb
ex: I had walked two miles by lunchtime.
●● Future perfect tense
Answer: indicates that an action will have been completed (finished or
"perfected") at some point in the future. This tense is formed with "will"
plus "have" plus the past participle of the verb: "I will have spent all my
money by this time next year."
●● active verb
Answer: the subject of the verb is doing the action
More than 300 million people speak Spanish.
[subject] [active verb]
ACTUAL EXAM FULL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A PLUS
●● common noun
Answer: a word (such as "singer," "ocean," or "car") that refers to a
person, place, or thing but that is not the name of a particular person,
place, or thing
●● collective noun
Answer: common collective nouns are class, crowd, flock, panel,
committee, group, audience, staff, and family. A collective noun is one
that in the singular form, denotes a number of separate persons or things.
●● Preposition
Answer: words that indicate location
(on, in, beside, above)
●● Conjunction
Answer: a part of speech that is used to connect words, phrases, clauses,
or sentences
(For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So)
,●● Participial Phrase
Answer: dressed up like verbs, but they function as adjectives to
describe nouns
Shivering, the couple ran out of the rain and into the house.
●● Prepositional Phrase
Answer: At home, In time
●● Appositive Phrase
Answer: An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another
noun right beside it
The insect, a cockroach, is crawling across the kitchen table.
●● Subject-verb agreement
Answer: A singular subject (she, Bill, car) takes a singular verb (is, goes,
shines), whereas a plural subject takes a plural verb.
●● present tense verb
Answer: write or writes
●● past tense verb
Answer: Wrote, played
, ●● present perfect tense
Answer: formed with a present tense form of "to have" plus the past
participle of the verb. This tense indicates either that an action was
completed (finished or "perfected") at some point in the past or that the
action extends to the present
I have walked, we have seen
●● Past perfect tense
Answer: indicates that an action was completed (finished or "perfected")
at some point in the past before something else happened. This tense is
formed with the past tense form of "to have" (HAD) plus the past
participle of the verb
ex: I had walked two miles by lunchtime.
●● Future perfect tense
Answer: indicates that an action will have been completed (finished or
"perfected") at some point in the future. This tense is formed with "will"
plus "have" plus the past participle of the verb: "I will have spent all my
money by this time next year."
●● active verb
Answer: the subject of the verb is doing the action
More than 300 million people speak Spanish.
[subject] [active verb]
