Grammar Theme Park: Desperate Housewives

Desperate Housewives show the real life in a seemingly perfect American ________ is, in fact, far from perfect.

1. suburb that
2. suburb which
3. suburb, that
4. suburb, which

The life on Wisteria Lane is seen through ________ eyes of a dead neighbor, Mary Alice Young.

1. ---
2. any
3. some
4. the

Desperate Housewives is so packed with humor and great storylines that you are ________ to get hooked on this show.

1. bound
2. however
3. probably
4. supposed

The first season of Desperate Housewives is really addictive. If I wasn't currently in school, ________ it finished in a day.

1. I had
2. I'd had
3. I'd have
4. I'll have

It was Marc Cherry's mother ________ gave him the idea for a hit TV show called Desperate Housewives.

1. ---
2. that
3. what
4. which

While the four women go through their everyday life, they all want to find out why Mary Alice ________ herself.

1. had shot
2. shooted
3. shoots
4. shot

Lynette's children are driving her ________ so she decides to hire a nanny.

1. crazily
2. crazy
3. to be crazy
4. to craziness

Gabrielle's husband suspects her ________ an affair.

1. having
2. of having
3. that she has
4. to have

The first season of Desperate Housewives ended up ________ the fourth most watched series in the United States.

1. as being
2. being
3. like
4. to be

Laura Bush at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner ________ to being a “desperate housewife.”

1. accepted
2. admitted
3. denied
4. proved