Punctuation
Is the following correct? If not, how would you fix it? The teacher asked me to recollect the pencils after the test.
Re-collect means to collect again and thus requires a hyphen.
Is the following in active or passive voice? If passive, change it to active. You will be taken to school by your sister this morning.
passive / Your sister will take you to school this morning.
"The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is any where directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour."
Adam Smith, "Wealth of Nations"
Is this a correct footnote citation? If not, how would you fix it? Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 1995), 36.
It is correct.
Is the following correct? If not, how would you fix it? To bake a cake we need: flour, sugar, and eggs.
No / To bake a cake, we need a few ingredients: flour, sugar, and eggs. [Left of the colon must be an independent clause.]
What is the subject of these sentences as well as the correct verb? Some children [ is / are ] not well behaved when over tired. Some of my favorite holidays [ is / are ] in the fall.
children - are / some - are
What is an idol, according to Francis Bacon?
something (a human error, really) that gets in the way of your ability to understand (idols of the tribe, cave, marketplace, & theater)
Is the following correct? If not, how would you fix it? Our dog and cat ran through the house, and got mud everywhere.
No / Our dog and cat ran through the house and got mud everywhere.
Is the following sentence active or passive? Whichever it is, change it to the other. Did your dad pass out the cake at your party?
active / Was the cake passed out by your dad at the party?
Immanuel Kant, What is Enlightenment?
What features do experiment include, according to the scientific method? Reference three we studied and how they work.
hypothesis - an attempted answer to a scientific research question / independent (those that you set up) and dependent (those that changed) variables
Write a sentence on the board that uses an em dash correctly.
What is the subject, and what is the correct verb? The teacher and the student [ see / sees] the problem with the sentence. A jacket as well as a hat [ are / is ] necessary. Either of my parents [ plans / plan ] to be there.
teacher and student - see / jacket - is / either - plans
"But as soon as I had acquired some general notions respecting physics, and... had observed how far they can carry us, and how much they differ from the principles that have been employed up to the present time, I believed that I could not keep them concealed without sinning grievously against the law by which we are bound to promote, as far as in us lies, the general good of mankind."
René Descartes, Discourse on Method
Is the following a correct bibliography citation without an author? If not, how would you fix it? “Civil War Begins.” United States Senate, accessed August 1, 2022. https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Civil_War_Begins.htm.
No - “Civil War Begins.” United States Senate. Accessed August 1, 2022. https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Civil_War_Begins.htm.
What are the seven coordinating conjunctions, and when do you need a comma before them? What are five subordinating conjunctions, and when do you need a comma when using them?
for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so / comma needed before a cc when it joins two independent clauses / because, when, since, though, while, etc. / when the subordinating conjunction starts the sentence (introductory clause)
Which of the following indefinite pronouns always take a plural verb? others, anything, few, some, both, none, many, several, everyone, much
others, few, both, many, several
"Knowledge is power."
Francis Bacon
What is epistemology, what are two "camps" of it, and what was Kant's contribution?
the study of knowledge (how we know what we know) / empiricism (senses) & rationalism (reason) / Kant reconciled the two (both)