ECC Grammar Test with Complete Solutions

ECC Grammar Test with Complete
Solutions

A person, place, thing, or idea (e.g. table, hope, pencil, notes, Daniel) - ANS-Noun

Describes, modifies, or gives more information about a noun or pronoun (e.g. cold,
happy, young, little, fun) - ANS-Adjective

modifies a verb, an adjective, or adverb; tells how often, where, when (e.g. slowly, very,
always, well, too) - ANS-Adverb

joins two words, ideas, phrases together & shows how they are connected (e.g. and, or,
but, yet, because, so) - ANS-Conjunction

used in place of a noun or noun phrase to avoid repetition (e.g. I, you, it, we, us, them,
those) - ANS-Pronoun


I WAS STUDYING English. - ANS-Past continuous verb tense example

the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not
the source) of the action denoted by the verb - ANS-Passive Voice

My car HAS BEEN STOLEN! (we don't care about WHO did it) - ANS-Passive voice
example

joins two elements of equal grammatical rank and syntactic importance. They can join
two verbs, two nouns, two adjectives, two phrases, or two independent clauses (for,
and, nor, but, or, yet, & so) - ANS-Coordinating Conjunctions (FANBOYS)

Would you like cereal OR toast for breakfast? - ANS-Coordinating conjunction example

connects an independent clause with one or more dependent clauses; signals cause-
effect relationship (e.g. because, since, before, unless, however) - ANS-Subordinating
Conjunction

Robin wasn't allowed in the Batmobile any longer BECAUSE he wouldn't wear a
seatbelt. - ANS-Subordinating conjunction example

, words that show the relationship between nouns or pronouns and some other words in
a sentence (e.g. on, at, about, with, after, for - compound: according to, because of,
next to, due to) - ANS-Prepositions

He found the book ON the table. - ANS-Preposition example

modifies or describes the noun (e.g. a, an, the) - ANS-Articles

THE cat sat on the couch. - ANS-Article example

used to compare differences between the two objects they modify (larger, smaller,
faster, higher); Noun + verb + comparative adjective + THAN + noun - ANS-
Comparative Adjectives

My house is LARGER THAN hers. - ANS-Comparative adjective example

describe an object which is at the upper or lower limit of a quality (the tallest, the
smallest, the fastest, the highest); Noun + verb + THE + superlative adjective + noun -
ANS-Superlative Adjectives

My house is THE LARGEST one in our neighborhood. - ANS-Superlative adjective
example

names more than one person, place, thing, or idea (e.g. -s, -es) - ANS-Plural Noun

Cars, buses, teeth, etc. - ANS-Plural noun example

substances, concepts etc. that we cannot divide into separate elements. We cannot
"count" them. (e.g. milk) - ANS-Uncountable Nouns

Milk, water, advice, chaos, rice, hair, sleep, stress - ANS-Uncountable nouns example

verbs that do not add -ed to show past tense (e.g. blow, break, bring, broadcast) - ANS-
Irregular Verbs

word that has a grammatical function but does not fit into the main parts of speech (i.e.
noun, verb, adverb) - ANS-Particles

In, off, up, by, along, down, forward, under - ANS-Particles example

A verb form ending in -ing that is used as a noun - ANS-Gerund

RUNNING is so fun!; I like WRITING in English; My cat's favorite activity is SLEEPING -
ANS-Gerund examples

S + had + been + V-ing - ANS-Past Perfect Continuous Verb Tense