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Using this "voice," the subject is acted upon.
What is passive voice?
100
These parts of speech name general or specific persons, places, things, or ideas.
What are nouns?
100
This names a group that acts as a single unit.
What is a collective noun?
100
These describe nouns and pronouns.
What are adjectives?
100
These words or groups of words describe other words in a sentence.
What are modifiers?
200
Using this voice, the subject does the acting.
What is active voice?
200
These nouns follow no rules for forming their plurals. Give an example.
What are irregular nouns? child - foot - goose - man - ox -person - tooth -woman
200
Pronouns that refer to only one noun, and are clear which nouns they replace have made this clear.
What is pronoun reference?
200
These often end with -ly and describe verbs, adjectives, or adverbs.
What are adverbs?
200
This type of modifier is not next to the word in the sentence that it modifies (describes).
What is a misplaced modifier?
300
These are the passive verbs.
What are AM, IS, ARE, WAS, WERE, BE, BEEN, BEING?
300
When two or three words form a single noun to modify a word, this is how they are identified.
What is hyphenate them?
300
These pronouns do not refer to specific persons, places, or things, and they are often singular.
What are indefinite pronouns?
300
To compare two persons, places, or things, this form of adjectives or adverbs is used.
What is the comparative form?
300
This type of modifier does not have anything in the sentence that it modifies (describes).
What is a dangling modifier?
400
Correct this: After the robbery, he was taken away.
What is THE POLICE TOOK HIM AWAY AFTER THE ROBBERY.
400
These are the plurals of city and key.
What are CITIES and KEYS?
400
This is pronoun agreement.
What is having the pronoun agree (match) in gender and number the noun or pronoun it replaces?
400
To compare three or more persons, places, or things, this form of adjectives or adverbs is used.
What is the superlative form?
400
Correct this: Looking under the dresser, the dust ball went up my nose.
What is LOOKING UNDER THE DRESSER, I INHALED A DUST BALL?
500
Correct this: Some children are given more food than they need.
What is SOME PARENTS GIVE THEIR CHILDREN MORE FOOD THAN THE CHILDREN NEED?
500
This is the rule for plural words whose singular form ends in -f or -fe.
What is change the -f to -v and add -s or -es?
500
What are the three TYPES (CASES) of pronouns?
What are subjective, objective, and possessive?
500
These four words do not follow the regular rules of forming comparatives and superlatives.
What are GOOD/BAD - WELL/BADLY?
500
Correct this: The guests almost began arriveing twenty minutes early.
What is THE GUESTS BEGAN ARRIVING ALMOST TWENTY MINUTES EARLY?
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