HESI A2 Grammar Practice Questions: 25 Questions With Answers
Grammar questions test your understanding of standard written English. Rather than memorizing rules in isolation, practice applying them to sentences and learn why an answer is correct. These original Naxles questions are for study purposes and are not official HESI exam questions. Confirm the subjects included in your school's admission test.
Practice questions
1. Choose the correct sentence.
- A. The students studies every evening.
- B. The student study every evening.
- C. The student studies every evening.
- D. The student studying every evening.
- Answer: C. A singular third-person subject takes a verb ending in -s in the simple present tense.
2. Which sentence uses the apostrophe correctly?
- A. The nurses station is busy.
- B. The nurse's station is busy.
- C. The nurses's station is busy.
- D. The nurse station's are busy.
- Answer: B. The singular possessive nurse's shows ownership or association with one nurse.
3. Complete the sentence: “Neither the instructor nor the students _____ ready.”
- A. is
- B. was
- C. are
- D. has
- Answer: C. With neither…nor, the verb commonly agrees with the nearer subject. Here, students is plural.
4. Which word is a pronoun? “She reviewed the assignment carefully.”
- A. Reviewed
- B. Assignment
- C. Carefully
- D. She
- Answer: D. She replaces a noun referring to a person.
