TEAS English and Language Usage Practice Questions: 25 Questions With Answers
The English and Language Usage portion of the ATI TEAS assesses your understanding of standard written English. Grammar rules, punctuation, spelling, and sentence construction all matter because small errors can change the meaning or clarity of a sentence. The original questions below help you review common language concepts. They are not official ATI questions.
Practice questions
1. Which sentence is grammatically correct?
- A. She don't understand the instructions.
- B. She doesn't understand the instructions.
- C. She doesn't understands the instructions.
- D. She not understand the instructions.
- Answer: B. With she, use doesn't followed by the base form understand.
2. Choose the correct word: “The nurse placed the files over _____.”
- A. their
- B. there
- C. they're
- D. theirs
- Answer: B. There refers to a place. Their indicates possession, while they're means they are.
3. Which sentence uses an apostrophe correctly?
- A. The students book was missing.
- B. The student's book was missing.
- C. The students' book's was missing.
- D. The student's books was missing.
- Answer: B. The singular possessive student's shows that the book belongs to one student.
4. Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
- A. Before the exam, Maria reviewed her notes.
- B. Before the exam Maria, reviewed her notes.
- C. Before, the exam Maria reviewed her notes.
- D. Before the exam Maria reviewed, her notes.
- Answer: A. The introductory phrase is correctly followed by a comma.
5. Which word is spelled correctly?
- A. Recieve
- B. Receive
- C. Receeve
- D. Receve
- Answer: B. Receive. The correct spelling is receive.
6. Choose the correct verb: “Each of the students _____ a notebook.”
- A. have
- B. has
- C. are having
- D. were having
- Answer: B. Has. The subject each is singular.
7. Which sentence is a complete sentence?
- A. Because the examination was difficult.
- B. After reviewing all the notes.
- C. The student completed the practice test.
- D. While waiting for the instructor.
- Answer: C. It contains a subject and a complete predicate and expresses a complete thought.
8. Which word is an adjective in the sentence “The careful student checked every answer”?
- A. Student
- B. Checked
- C. Careful
- D. Every
- Answer: C. Careful. It describes the noun student.
9. Which sentence avoids a comma splice?
- A. The class ended, the students left.
- B. The class ended; the students left.
- C. The class ended, and. the students left.
- D. The class ended the students, left.
- Answer: B. A semicolon can join two closely related independent clauses.
10. Choose the correct word: “The patient felt _____ after resting.”
- A. good
- B. well
- C. bestly
- D. goodly
Answer: B. Well. Well is commonly used to describe a person's health or condition.
11. Which sentence uses its correctly?
- A. The hospital updated its schedule.
- B. The hospital updated it's schedule.
- C. The hospital updated its' schedule.
- D. The hospital updated it schedule.
- Answer: A. Its is possessive. It's means it is or it has.
12. Which is the correct plural of analysis?
- A. Analysises
- B. Analysi
- C. Analyses
- D. Analysis's
- Answer: C. Analyses. The plural of analysis is analyses.
13. Which sentence has consistent verb tense?
- A. She studied for an hour and then takes a break.
- B. She studies for an hour and then took a break.
- C. She studied for an hour and then took a break.
- D. She studying for an hour and then took a break.
- Answer: C. Both verbs are in the past tense.
14. Choose the correct word: “The instructor gave advice to _____ students.”
- A. they
- B. them
- C. their
- D. theirs
- Answer: B. Them. The pronoun is the object of the preposition to.
15. Which sentence uses a colon correctly?
- A. Bring the following items: a pencil, an eraser, and paper.
- B. Bring: the following items a pencil, an eraser, and paper.
- C. Bring the following: items, a pencil, an eraser, and paper.
- D. Bring the following items a pencil: an eraser and paper.
- Answer: A. A colon can introduce a list after a complete introductory clause.
16. Which word is closest in meaning to concise?
- A. Brief
- B. Confusing
- C. Repetitive
- D. Lengthy
- Answer: A. Brief. Concise writing communicates efficiently without unnecessary words.
17. Which sentence contains a pronoun-antecedent agreement error?
- A. The nurse checked her notes.
- B. The students submitted their assignments.
- C. Each student brought their notebooks and were ready.
- D. The instructor explained the answer.
- Answer: C. Under traditional singular agreement, each student takes a singular verb such as was. Modern English also commonly uses singular they, but the sentence still has the verb-agreement problem.
18. Choose the correct word: “The medicine may _____ the patient's symptoms.”
- A. effect
- B. affect
- C. affekt
- D. effects
- Answer: B. Affect. Affect is generally a verb meaning to influence. Effect is commonly a noun meaning a result.
19. Which sentence correctly uses a comparative adjective?
- A. This question is more easier than the previous one.
- B. This question is easiest than the previous one.
- C. This question is easier than the previous one.
- D. This question is most easier than the previous one.
- Answer: C. Use easier to compare two things.
20. Which sentence has the clearest meaning?
- A. After the nurse spoke to the patient, she left.
- B. The nurse left after speaking to the patient.
- C. After speaking to her, she left.
- D. She spoke after she left to the patient.
- Answer: B. It clearly identifies who left and when.
How to improve your TEAS English score
Keep a record of grammar rules you frequently miss. Practice correcting sentences and explaining the rule behind each correction. For punctuation, identify the independent clauses before deciding whether to use a comma, semicolon, or period.
