Grammar L. 23

1. Carrots are a _ vegetable. route root 2. _ in vitamin C, the sailors developed a disease called scurvy. Deficient Sufficient 3. The tourist _ the train. mist missed 4. Known for their buzzing, flies are an annoying _. spider insect 5. Please place your coats over _. their there 6. Frogs _ croaking a funny song. was were 7. Monkeys like the jungle climate, but _too hot _ for me. it's , there its, their 8. _ a manatee have gills? Do Does 9. Has missedis the_participle of the verb miss. present past Replace the blank with the singular present tense form of the underlined verb 10. Chefs mash potatoes. Rob mashes potatoes. 11. I shall show you a rare butterfly. past present future Type each preposition12. In a forest of South America, an ocelot hunts at night. 13. What is not a preposition? beside between buy during 14. paws concrete abstract 15. habit concrete abstract What is the collective noun?16. A herd of cows grazed in the pasture. herd cows What is the simple subject?17. Did the groomer brush the pony? groomer pony What is the simple predicate?18. Did the groomer brush the pony? brush Did brush 19. Miss Ng whistles as she _ her chores. do does 20. The present form of hunt is hunting. 21. The plural form of deer is deer. 22. The plural form of shelf is shelves.