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Grammar Test 1
YOUR NAME ___________________________________
You can have errors regarding commas / semicolons / capitalization / homonyms / word choice / apostrophes / hyphens / colons / fragments (F) / run on sentences (R) / dangling modifiers (D) or sentences can be correct.
1. Seventeen years ago, I joined the air force.
2. I was really young when I went in so it was a difficult experience for me.
3. Because I had a self-defeating attitude when I joined this branch of military service.
4. When Mr. Glass was caught leaning against a locker during inspection, he was forced by his drill instructor to say “What’s up GQ daddy?”
5. Every time my name was called I was forced to utter these words.
6. It might have bin embarrassing, but it was a lesson that I would never forget.
7. Standing at the locker as the other airmen laughed, a feeling of utter stupidity was ineffectively concealed by Dan.
8. I am a lot different then I was at that time in my life.
9. Over the course of a persons life, he or she has to change.
10. If a person chooses to remain the same, then they will make the same mistakes over and over again.
12. One day, my flight was suppose to donate blood.
12. As a reward for doing this we would be able to drink soda and eat cookies.
13. Unfortunately, the squadron leaders were yelled at for the entire flight not being able to make their beds thus they weren’t allowed to go for this special treat.
14. The reality was that the leaders hadn’t distances themselves from the rest of the group, this situation had to be rectified immediately.
15. For the majority of the day the leaders had to make bed after bed to perfect specifications.
16. Making beds to military specification a task that seems difficult at first was something that we became professional at.
17. On April 13 1990 I stepped onto the bus that would take me to Basic Training.
18. This was located at Lackland Air Force Base, which is located outside of the city of San Antonio Texas.
19. Many things that I tried to do during that time seemed to effect me in a negative way.
20. I could not march good to save my life.
21. The first Sunday night, I was forced to stand on a balcony and think about how bad I marched.
22. For an hour or so, I wondered back and forth on the metal staircase as I pondered the situation that I had gotten myself into.
23. Nevertheless, I eventually got use to some of the things that I had to do to make it to tech school.
24. For instance, we were forced to fold our T-shirts into 6 inch squares.
25. There was a specific method of doing this that involved folding the shirt spraying starch onto it ironing it so that it would stay in place using tweezers to pull the edges even and then starching and ironing it again.
26. This seemed to be the most ridiculous thing at the time but there was a method to the drill instructors’ madness.
27. If a person could pay attention to detail with a mundane task like this he could achieve anything that he set his mind to.
28. Also, when a person is forced to rise to the occasion, he either will do this, or he will fail, in this, it is better to separate those people who can’t do their job properly before they get into a situation where someone else’s life depends on them working well under intense pressure.
29. I can remember one guy who wanted to quite, so he just stopped trying.
30. He got sent back to our group for failing to do a task properly, and with this he decided that it wasn’t worth it to work to complete his training anymore.
31. The instructors decided that they weren’t going to let him give up on himself, so for the next 2 nights, they placed his bed in the drill sergeants’ corridor and would kick his bed repeatedly to keep him awake; eventually, he excepted his destiny in the military.
32. During guard duty people would take out there aggression on each other by scuffing up the toes of other airmen’s boots.
33. If someone did this to you, then a person would have to wake up and shine his boots.
34. If someone messed with your sleep, it was a capitol offense!
35. The lesson in this was that you wanted to be a person who didn’t stand out in to positive or negative a way.
36. There were only a few real requirements for physical training being able to run 2½ miles, being able to do 30 sit ups, and being able to accomplish 30 pushups.
37. Other than this we had to make it through the confidence coarse without messing up on more than 1 water obstacle.
38. Of course, I fell into the water on the rope swing; this event is recorded on a video tape that I still have to this day.
39. Mr. Glass I don’t know if I can do all of this work that is required for the class.
40. Yes you can do the things that you put your mind to.

1-13. List the rules of commas
14. List the semicolon rule
15. List the hyphen rule
16. List the colon rule
17. What are apostrophes used for and how do you use them correctly. If you don’t correctly list this, then you don’t get points.
18. What is the name of the river outside of RACC? Spelling counts.
19. What is the difference between proper and common nouns?
20. What is a comma splice?
For all word listings, make sure you either number or label the groups correctly.
21-27. Name 7 coordinating conjunctions.
28-30. Name 3 articles.
31-35. Name 5 relative pronouns
36-40. List 5 transitional expressions
41-48. Name 8 subordinate conjunctions
49-55. Name 7 Conjunctive adverbs
56-75. List 20 different prepositional phrases that use a different preposition in each.

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THAT’S IT!!!! The final grammar test of this class
YOUR NAME ____________________________________
1. After finishing the class, jubilation will wash over my students.
2. The semester that has been giving you so many headaches since day one.
3. Finally, Spring classes at RACC will be finished, and you can go on vacation.
4. I know that there are only a few days that you will truly be off but you should do your best to enjoy every minute of your time away from teachers, books, and homework.
5. As for me I won’t be going anywhere.
6. This sounds an awful lot like when Bob Dylan warbles “You ain’t goin’ nowhere!”
7. I may sing bad, but I’m not that bad at singing.
8. When I drive to school I have been known to sing along to my car stereo.
9. Right now, Crackers CD entitled Greatest Hits Redux is on heavy rotation in my truck.
10. Yesterday albright college had an awareness of school costs day.
11. It was suppose to educate students as to why their tuition is so high.
12. However it only made many of the students angry.
13. These students were wandering why they had to hear the school complain about costs when the tuition was already so high.
14. For example the cost of water and sewage is $220,000 a year.
15. According to the accounting people at this local berks county college, it costs $44 million to run the school for a year.
16. Compared to the cost of over $26,000 a year, $348 for a 3 credit class is not a bad price to get comparable college credits.
17. This day, a day officially known as tuition ran out day, is something that many students need to see and understand.
18. Whether or not you now what it takes to earn $348, you need to know that the costs of school comes out of someone’s pockets.
19. Taxes are not a bad thing if there used for the right things.
20. Some people try to scam the system nevertheless they eventually get discovered and lose their rights to get financial aid.
21. However, bye this time, they have already taken your tax dollars and used them for whatever it is that they were trying to do.
22. All things considered, the cost of living in Reading Pennsylvania is much higher than any amount of after class “profit” that these scam artists have made.
23. Unfortunately, when enough people fine a way to beat the system, it adds up to a lot of money that is wasted for the community as a whole.
24. Eventually, you will be paying money into the funds that are used to help people get through school and benefit from other Social Programs.
25. Some programs that are very helpful to a student trying to balance family and school without “going under.”
26. The feeling is that if the students are financially helped and become proficient at a skill they can contribute to the economy by putting their tax dollars back into the system.
27. When it comes to American politics, members of the Democratic Party are more likely to want to contribute to financial assistance programs; especially ones that benefit people that are having difficulty making ends meet.
28. More conservative members of the Republican Party feel that they should be able to choose what they spend their money on and thus, they don’t want to feel mandated to a cause that they don’t necessarily believe in.
29. When I think of tax programs that I could support, I think of the military the police department the fire companies the compulsory educational system and anything that has to do with environmental concerns.
30. Environmental concerns range from picking up and disposing trash to the United States national park system.
31. Personally, I don’t feel that profits should take precedence over the future of our natural world.
32. I am by no means a member of the green party, but I do believe that we need wild and unspoiled lands for our enjoyment.
33. Ricketts Glen State Park is by no means unspoiled, but it is supposed to be a place where a person can get away from their cares for a while.
34. If you don’t know that this is my favorite place to visit in America, then you haven’t been conscious all trimester.
35. In the winter a person could snowmobile within the confines of the park.
36. In spring, the same person could go fishing, he could also go hiking.
37. As all of you so clearly know, my greatest passion is taking a ton of pictures of the roaring streams with black and white film.
38. I love to be alone on the trails as the sun rises up above the tree line.
39. If I was truly lucky, I might be able to see a dear dart off into the brush.
40. However, I mostly see squirrels birds and chipmunks running off in front of the thumping sounds of my boots.
41. Granted, if I had a choice, I wouldn’t where boots, but all things considered, they do give my ankles a little more support.
42. You wouldn’t know this if you had heard me wine about how twisted up my foot got from stepping wrong on a rocky pathway.
43. This, however, was the fault of the crampons that I was wearing.
44. My groans and complaints might have sounding like I was in morning, but the truth was that it really did hurt.
45. I know that yous feel sad for me!
46. After all of the horrible grammar tests that you have had to endure, the last thing that you want to do is feel sorry for your teacher not being able to walk properly while hiking through the woods in winter.
47. I am sure that you would rather I kept quite and just taught you how to figure out if this sentence is a dangling modifier or not.
48. Its not.
49. Honest.
50. At least you got too watch the classic movie entitled Gridiron Gang.
51. Watching the Rock, laughter is always something that I am prone to.
52. I use to find it humorous when he did his catch phrases.
53. For example, he might say “The Rock doesn’t care what you think!”
54. Mr. Glass would never be uncaring with regards to what you think all the same he feels that using words like think and believe show uncertainty.
55. “Your job as students is to know or find out,” he has said on many a occasion.
56. The Rock might refer to his adversary as a jibroni, but Mr. Glass would never say any thing negative about you.
57. He respects you as students and people, and even if you don’t pass this class, he still feels that you have value as a person since you had the heart to stick it out until the end.
58. You are probably all ready aware that Mr. Glass loves to use the term “heart.”
59. Because he watches too much ESPN Sportscenter.
60. It is soon getting to be that time when Mr. Glass summons up all of his venom for the Evil Empire.
61. Yes, nothing beats meaningless days in front of the television wishing the over rated Derek Jeter the worst.
62. If I could, I would put him on a raft down the Schulykill River and hope that he doesn’t return until 2018.
63. Even that might be two soon.
64. I don’t know what’s worse the puppy dogs eyes or the way that the announcers swoon over everything that he does.
65. “Oh Derek, you’re so wonderful” Joe Buck Jr. will say “How do you set the stars in the sky?”
66. I prefer the baseball crushing power of Albert Pujols, the clutch hitting of David Ortiz, a slugger known as “Big Papi,” and the desire to beat out any infield grounder that possesses Ichiro Suzuki in his quest to be the next player to hit .400 in a season.
67. And I am definitely looking forward to Daisuke Matsuzaka’s gyroball as it leaves Robinson Cano, Alex Rodriguez, and Jason Giambi looking like fools as they strike out looking!
68. When it comes to sheer love of the game, I definitely prefer David Eckstein’s scrappy presence to the brooding narcissism of Barry Bonds, which is just a chore to deal with.
69. I would like to see Barry Bonds rocketed to the kuiper belt before he gets a chance to break Hank Aaron’s historic homerun record.
70. All this talk about baseball is making me excited for the warm whether of spring!
71. I am currently having a hankering for some rasberry iced tea.
72. Nevertheless, I will stay away from it since I gave up caffiene almost 3 years ago.
73. There was a time that I would drink coca cola like it was going out of style.
74. Know, I prefer to drink ice cold water, Hawaiian Punch, or pink lemonade.
75. I know, these are sophisticated tastes.
76. Then again, the simple things in life give me a sense of inner piece.
77. For example, I can be appeased easy with a couple of Pizza Hut pan pepperoni pizzas and the Pulp Fiction DVD.
78. Samuel L. Jacksons one-liners always make me laugh like a goofball.
79. I’m not ashamed to admit it!
80. You won’t catch me berrying my head in the sand over some of the stupid things that I did as a kid.
81. For example, I once skinned the backs of my ankles when I jumped off the bed while trying to play air guitar to Billy Idol’s White Wedding.
82. My sister will always tell that story to Mom, and then, the 2 of them will laugh at what a goofball I was when I was little.
83. All things considered, I am probably more eccentric then any one that you know.
84. If you aren’t careful, you might loose your mind like your beloved teacher!
85. On March 19, 2007 this class will be over for good.
86. You should reward yourself for all of your hard work.
87. I wood like to start a tip jar just to see if people would donate to the Mr. Glass Is Wonderful Fund.
88. However, since that is unethical I won’t bother.
89. It’s not like I would get alot of money to go on vacation to the desert anyway.
90. I would like to commend you for excepting the challenge to be a great student.
91. You have shown that a winner doesn’t quit, a quitter doesn’t win.
92. A great way to reward yourself is to go to east coast Massage Therapy.
93. Granted, it is $53 to get an appointment, but your body will thank you when the masseuse removes all the stress and strains that your body has built up over the past 3 months.
94. I will be going on principle alone.
95. I won’t be going to the US Capital building in the nation’s capitol over this vacation.
96. I also won’t be going to the country of England on vacation; besides, it is too expensive to get a ticket.
97. What I will be doing is sitting on my lazy but for the better part of a week.
98. The first thing that I will have to due is to finish figuring out your grades by next Thursday.
99. Overtime, that will be a daunting process, but in the end, I will complete the mountains of paperwork that will arise from the last week of school.
100. And so with that, I bid you, “auf wiedersehen.”