English Language: Elementary School: 1st and 2nd Grade Quiz - Grade 1 Language - Determiners (Articles and Demonstratives) (Questions)

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This quiz helps children identify which indefinite article and demonstrative to use. This quiz should be used after elementary school children have learned which letters are vowels. Becoming familiar with when to use the indefinite articles and demonstratives helps their sentence level. In addition, it adds a feather in their English and literacy cap.

Instead of ‘a’, if a word begins with a vowel, we write ‘an’. If we wrote ‘elephant’ but there was one, we would write ‘an elephant’ because the word begins with an ‘e’, a vowel. We always write ‘an’ for words beginning with vowels.

See if you know when to use ‘a’ or ‘an’.

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Look at the picture. Choose the correct word to fit into the blank.
The woman smells ____ flowers.

[ ]	these
[ ]	those
[ ]	this
[ ]	that

Which of these words would you write 'an' in front of?

[ ]	banana
[ ]	strawberry
[ ]	grape
[ ]	apple

Which of these words would you write 'an' in front of?

[ ]	goat
[ ]	elk
[ ]	hedgehog
[ ]	bunny

Look at the picture. Choose the correct word to fit into the blank.
The ocean lies underneath ____ clouds.

[ ]	this
[ ]	that
[ ]	these
[ ]	those

Look at the picture. Choose the correct word to fit into the blank.
The woman and child are feeding ____ dog.

[ ]	this
[ ]	that
[ ]	these
[ ]	those

Which of these words would you write 'a' in front of?

[ ]	assortment
[ ]	arrangement
[ ]	animal
[ ]	toy

Which of these words would you write 'a' in front of?

[ ]	seal
[ ]	otter
[ ]	octopus
[ ]	eel

Look at the picture. Choose the correct word to fit into the blank.
The hiker will climb ____ mountain.

[ ]	this
[ ]	that
[ ]	these
[ ]	those

Look at the picture. Choose the sentence that is written correctly.
The sun shines over ____ trees.

[ ]	this
[ ]	that
[ ]	these
[ ]	those

10.

Which answer is correct?

[ ]	an rose
[ ]	an garden
[ ]	a rose
[ ]	a orange flower

English Language: Elementary School: 1st and 2nd Grade Quiz - Grade 1 Language - Determiners (Articles and Demonstratives) (Answers)

Look at the picture. Choose the correct word to fit into the blank.
The woman smells ____ flowers.

[x]	these
[ ]	those
[ ]	this
[ ]	that

If you say each sentence out loud, you might easily spot the correct one.

Which of these words would you write 'an' in front of?

[ ]	banana
[ ]	strawberry
[ ]	grape
[x]	apple

The word 'apple' begins with an 'a', which is a vowel. Because the word begins with a vowel, we would write 'an apple'.

Which of these words would you write 'an' in front of?

[ ]	goat
[x]	elk
[ ]	hedgehog
[ ]	bunny

An elk is a type of deer.

Look at the picture. Choose the correct word to fit into the blank.
The ocean lies underneath ____ clouds.

[ ]	this
[ ]	that
[ ]	these
[x]	those

The ocean lies underneath those clouds.

Look at the picture. Choose the correct word to fit into the blank.
The woman and child are feeding ____ dog.

[x]	this
[ ]	that
[ ]	these
[ ]	those

The woman and child are feeding this dog.

Which of these words would you write 'a' in front of?

[ ]	assortment
[ ]	arrangement
[ ]	animal
[x]	toy

We could say it is an assortment of toys, or a toy.

Which of these words would you write 'a' in front of?

[x]	seal
[ ]	otter
[ ]	octopus
[ ]	eel

We would say 'a seal' and all the others begin with a vowel and would have 'an' in front of them.

Look at the picture. Choose the correct word to fit into the blank.
The hiker will climb ____ mountain.

[ ]	this
[x]	that
[ ]	these
[ ]	those

Remember that these and those are both plural words.

Look at the picture. Choose the sentence that is written correctly.
The sun shines over ____ trees.

[ ]	this
[ ]	that
[ ]	these
[x]	those

The sun shines over those trees.

10.

Which answer is correct?

[ ]	an rose
[ ]	an garden
[x]	a rose
[ ]	a orange flower

The words 'a' and 'an' mean one, so if you are writing about roses, you wouldn't use either indefinite article.