Testing Your Grammar Knowledge: Six Challenging Questions

Can you pass a high school grammar class? Let’s find out. I’m asking you six progressively harder questions. If you get two or more wrong, you’re gonna have to reread. To kill a Mockingbird. Starting off easy. Which punctuation Mark is used to indicate possession? Say your answer out loud. That is an apostrophe. What part of speech is the word quickly? The L Y words. What are those? That is an adverb. What is the past participle form of the verb to swim? The past participle form. Make a guess. That is just swam. What is the term for the main noun that a pronoun refers to? What is the term for that? Got your stump now, huh? That is an antecedent. Which rhetorical device is the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses? I need to retake grammar. Jeez. If you understood me, what is that? That is an anaphora. Now the hardest one. What is the term for a verb that requires both a direct and indirect object? What is the term for that? That type of verb? That is a ditransitive verb. How’d you do?