HESI A2 Grammar study guide
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The HESI A2 Grammar Assessment is one component of the HESI Admission Assessment (A2), a multiple-choice admissions exam used by many nursing and allied health programs to gauge readiness before entry. This page is an independent study resource for candidates preparing for the grammar portion; it is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced by the exam's publisher. The grammar section tests standard written English: identifying complete sentences and fragments, subject-verb agreement, correct pronoun choice and reference, verb tense consistency, punctuation (commas, semicolons, apostrophes), capitalization, adjective and adverb use, and commonly confused words. Items typically ask you to pick the version of a sentence that is grammatically correct or to spot the error in a given sentence. Because the assessment is delivered on a computer and is usually timed per section, accuracy under mild time pressure matters as much as rule knowledge. Effective preparation means reviewing the rules you actually miss, not rereading a full grammar textbook. Topics on this exam: Grammar. The HESI A2 Grammar study guide has 1 section and about 433 words.
01Grammar
The HESI A2 Grammar section is a timed, multiple-choice test of standard edited American English. It asks you to choose the correct word, spot the error, or select the sentence that is punctuated and structured correctly-typically 50 questions in 50 minutes. Questions cluster around the eight parts of speech, sentence completeness, agreement, punctuation, capitalization, modifiers, parallelism, and commonly confused words. A verb agrees with its grammatical subject, not the nearest noun.
433 words, about 2 minMore study resources for HESI A2 Grammar
- Practice questionsChoose the sentence that correctly uses a subject-verb agreement rule for an indefinite pronoun.
- FlashcardsComma splice. A sentence error in which two independent clauses are joined only by a comma with no conjunction.
- Cheat sheetA complete sentence needs a subject, a finite verb, and a complete thought; a fragment lacks one of these, as in "Because the lab closed early" (dependent clause only) or "Running down the hall" (no subject).
- Key termsnoun. A word that names a person, place, thing, or idea, such as 'nurse,' 'clinic,' or 'health.' Nouns can be singular or plural, common or proper, and concrete or abstract.
- Study planIdentify and label the eight parts of speech in 40 mixed sentences, scoring at least 90% on a self-check.
- Common mistakesWriters are often corrected for using 'me' as a subject ('me and my friend went'), and they overgeneralize that correction to every position, including after prepositions and in compound objects where the objective case is required.
- Exam-day guideBring the original, unexpired photo ID you registered with (driver's license or passport are typical).