Grade 4 ELA Practice Test: Prepositional Phrases and Adjective Order
- Prepositional Phrases and Adjective Order
- 10 questions
- 15 minutes
Questions 1-3 and 8-10 are about prepositions, and questions 4-7 are about the order of adjectives. Tip: in English, size usually comes before age, and age before color.
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Question 1
Which group of words is a prepositional phrase?
Correct answer: B
A prepositional phrase starts with a preposition (under) and ends with a noun (bridge). The other groups have no preposition.
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Question 2
Which word is the preposition in this sentence? "The cat slept beside the warm fireplace."
Correct answer: C
Beside shows where the cat slept in relation to the fireplace, so it is a preposition. Slept is the verb, and warm describes the fireplace.
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Question 3
After dinner, we walked to the park.
Which prepositional phrase tells WHERE?
Correct answer: D
To the park tells where they walked. After dinner is also a prepositional phrase, but it tells when.
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Question 4
Which words are in the correct order? "We ate lunch at a ____ table."
Correct answer: C
Adjectives usually go in this order: size, then shape, then material. So small round wooden table sounds right.
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Question 5
Which words are in the correct order? "My neighbor has a ____ dog."
Correct answer: A
Size (big) comes before age (old), and age comes before color (brown).
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Question 6
Which words are in the correct order? "We saw two ____ kittens at the shelter."
Correct answer: D
An opinion word like cute comes first, then size (little), then color (black).
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Question 7
Which sentence has the adjectives in the correct order?
Correct answer: B
Age (new) comes before color (blue), and the purpose word (soccer) stays right next to the noun ball.
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Question 8
The girl with the red backpack is my cousin.
Which word does the phrase with the red backpack describe?
Correct answer: A
The phrase tells which girl is the cousin, so it describes the noun girl. It works like an adjective.
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Question 9
Which word best completes the sentence? "The library closes ____ 5 o'clock."
Correct answer: C
Use at for an exact clock time. On is used for days (on Monday), and in for months or years.
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Question 10
She put the book on the shelf in the hallway.
How many prepositional phrases are in this sentence?
Correct answer: B
The two phrases are on the shelf and in the hallway. Put and the book are not prepositional phrases.
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