A phrase is group of words that function as one part of speech. Phrases clarify meaning by adding information or by describing the subject, the action, or other nouns in the sentence.
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What is the narrator's name?
Jing-mei
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“Invisibility of one’s own culture”
The idea that practices within one's own culture just seem to be "the way things are."
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Verb that's what's...
...happenin'!
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What is an adjective?
An adjective is a word that describes a noun or a pronoun.
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What is an infinitive phrase? (Say what an infinitive is first.)
A phrase that includes an infinitive (to do, to run, to jump) and its object (example: to order in fluent Spanish). They can function as a noun, adjective, or adverb.
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What instrument does narrator play?
Piano
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“cultural inheritance"
What the individual inherits from the larger culture
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We gave that dog a big fat bone and...
...now he barks at Mrs. Jones.
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What is a verb?
A word that expresses action, condition, or state of being.
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What is gerund phrase?
A gerund phrase begins with verb form ending in -ing that functions as noun. It also can include the object of the gerund.
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What is an internal conflict that took place in "Two Kinds"?
Any logically justified answer could work.
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Inclusive pronoun
A pronoun that includes the reader, such as us or our.
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Conjunction Junction, what's your function?
Hookin' up words and phrases and clauses.
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What is a pronoun?
A pronoun is word that replaces a noun in a sentence.
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What is participial phrase?
A participial phrase begins with a past (like -ed) or present (like -ing) participle and functions as an adjective. It also can include an object.
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What is an example of an external conflict that took place in "Two Kinds"?
Any logically justified answer could work.
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"Conflict"
A struggle or a problem in a story
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Lolly, lolly, get your...
...adverbs here!
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What is an adverb?
An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
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What is the difference between a participial phrase that uses the -ing form of a verb and gerund phrase that uses the -ing form of a verb?
Gerunds function as nouns. Participial phrases function as adjectives.
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Why does Jing-mei hate Waverly?
They were raised like sisters and Waverly is rude to her.
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"Pluralism"
The idea of lots of cultures existing within one society, but maintaining their individual traditions.
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What animal did Albert Andreas Armadillo want the Sarsaparillas to get for him?