YEAR 8 LEARNING TEAM LANGUAGE TEST

1. Rewrite the following making all the necessary corrections (5MARKS)

1. The babies rattle _________________________________
2. The kittens dinner (singular) _________________________________
3. The peoples anger _________________________________
4. Moses people _________________________________
5. The mountains height (pural) _________________________________

1. Convert the following phrases into the proper format as covered in class (10MARKS)

1. the roar of the lion _________________________________
2. a holiday of one week _________________________________
3. the captain of the team _________________________________
4. the holiday of two weeks _________________________________
5. the song of the birds _________________________________
6. the employees of the companies _________________________________
7. the shouts of the girls _________________________________
8. the eggs of the geese _________________________________
9. the scurrying of the uniformed bellboys _________________________________
10. the curving marble staircase of the hotel _________________________________

1. Complete the following chart (10 MARKS)

2. SUPERLATIVE	COMPARATIVE	ADJECTIVE
   greatest
   		bad
   	more beautiful
   		witty
   most

3. Complete the following chart (15 MARKS)

E1 Complete the following analogies below by putting in a suitable word. (5 MARKS)

1. An eskimo is to igloo as _________________ is to pouch
2. Oil is to well as coal is to _____________________
3. School is to __________________________as _____________________is to patient
4. Ten is to ____________________ as two is to hands

E2 Create 5 analogies of your own in the spaces provided below (5 MARKS)

1

2

3

4

5

F. Write the contraction next to its extended form (10 MARKS)

1. are not ______________
2. was not _______________
3. he is ____________
4. there is ___________
5. there has _____________
6. could have ______________
7. should have _____________
8. we are _____________
9. it will _______________
10. does not _______________

7. State what part of speech each of the words in italics is in the following sentences. You may choose from the following: noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, verb, conjunction, interjection, preposition.

1. The children playing football in the street dashed for the pavement as the car sped past

Children ___________________

Football ___________________

Street ____________________

Dashed _____________________

For _____________________

Pavement ___________________

As ___________________

Car ____________________

Sped ___________________

Past ___________________ (5 MARKS)

Total ______________/ _____65__________