EngQuizzitive-1.2 (grammar) : Proper nouns:Answers

Hello students,

We begin with our online quiz series on grammar.Every alternate week we would take one aspect of grammar and help you create a template for the same.You have choice to read the theory first and then solve the quiz or solve the quiz and then read the theory and check your answers.

Language skeleton

Grammar consists of rules that link the various facets of a language.These rules along with the facets form the language skeleton.

The shortest unit in a language skeleton is a word.There are 8 types of words which are the eight parts of speech.These words together form phrases.These phrases together form a clause and these clauses would form a sentence.

There are three types of phrases : adjective,adverb and noun
There are three types of clauses : adjective,adverb and noun
There are three types of sentences : Simple,Compound and Complex

We begin with the parts of speech.These eight parts of speech are as follows:
Noun
Pronoun
Verb
Adverb
Adjective
Preposition
Conjunction
Interjection

According modern gramarians articles are also considered as one of the parts of speech.

We begin our grammar series with the relationship between articles and proper nouns.

Noun : derived from the latin word nomen (name) is a naming word.The different types of nouns are as follows :

Proper
Common
Abstract
Collective
Material.

This quiz deals with the usage of articles with proper nouns.For the article template check the following link:
http://engquizzitive.blogspot.com/2010/10/engquizzitive-cet-10-grammararticles_12.html

For other quizzes on the usage of articles check the following link : http://engquizzitive.blogspot.com/p/grammar-templates.html

Answers

1. He is a Bertie Wooster. or He is Bertie Wooster [the meaning would change with the placement of an article;a Bertie Wooster would mean like Wooster and without an article would mean his name is Bertie Wooster]
2. The Indus flows through the Punjab into the Arabian sea. [all geographic locations being one of their kind take the article 'the']
3. The English colonised more places compared to the French.
4. The great depression had little effect on the Soviet Union because of its communist form of government. [refers to a cluster so would take the definite article]
5. Martin Luther King who led a Gandhian revolution against racial discrimination achieved notable success. [refers to a revolution like the one lead by Gandhi]