HESI A2
HESI A2 Version 5 Grammar Questions
Question 1 of 5
Select the word or phrase that makes this sentence grammatically correct: The development committee struck a bargain with the city planners.
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: The correct answer is 'C: struck.' The sentence should read: 'The development committee struck a bargain with the city planners.' 'Struck' is the past tense of 'strike,' which is the appropriate verb to use in this context to indicate that the development committee successfully negotiated or made a deal.
Question 2 of 5
Select the word or phrase that makes this sentence grammatically correct: Children who obey their parents tend to do better in school.
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: In this sentence, 'who' is the correct relative pronoun to refer to 'Children.' The sentence structure requires a relative pronoun to connect the dependent clause 'who obey their parents' to the main clause. 'Which' is used for things, not people. 'Should' is a modal verb, and 'to' is a preposition, neither of which fit the context of the sentence. Therefore, the correct choice is 'A: who.'
Question 3 of 5
Select the word or phrase that makes this sentence grammatically correct: The childā€™s fever was too high for him to lie comfortably in bed.
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: The correct answer is 'C: too.' In this sentence, 'too' is the appropriate word to indicate an excessive level of fever that prevented the child from lying comfortably in bed. The sentence structure requires 'too high' to convey that the fever was at a level that was beyond what was comfortable for the child.
Question 4 of 5
Select the word that makes this sentence grammatically correct: Is the new student coming out to lunch with?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: The correct answer is 'Us.' The sentence should read, 'Is the new student coming out to lunch with us?' In this sentence, 'us' is the correct pronoun to use as it functions as the object of the preposition 'with.' The pronoun 'us' is required to complete the sentence and make it grammatically correct.
Question 5 of 5
Which word in the following sentence is the subject? The nurses went to the conference room.
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: In a sentence, the subject is the noun or pronoun that performs the action of the verb. In this sentence, 'nurses' is the subject as they are the ones performing the action of going to the conference room. The other choices, 'conference', 'went to', and 'room' do not act as the subject because they do not perform the action of the verb.