Comma Splices & Verb Tense
Appositive & Participial Phrases
Absolute & Prepositional Phrases
Adjective Clauses
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100
Correct the sentence: Although we frequently camp at the State Park, the National Park is our favorite place to visit, it has the longest mountain range in the country.
Although we frequently camp at the State Park, the National Park is our favorite place to visit because it has the longest mountain range in the country.
100
Identify the appositive phrase: The writer, an old man with a white mustache, had some difficulty in getting into bed.
What is an old man with a white mustache
100
Identify the absolute phrase: The man looked up, his dark, grizzled features full of horror, and nodded blankly.
What is his dark, grizzled features full of horror
100
Identify the adjective clause: Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings except upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.
What is who was usually very late in the mornings except upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night
100
Add an appositive phrase to the sentence: The detective found only one clue.
What is The detective (add) found only one clue (add).
200
Correct the sentence: In the sciences, students need to see a lab early in college, in the humanities, archives do not need to be seen until they are upperclassmen.
n the sciences, students need to see a lab early in college; however, in the humanities, archives do not need to be seen until they are upperclassmen.
200
Identify the participial phrase: Crouched on the edge of the plateau, the schoolmaster looked at the deserted expanse.
What is Crouched on the edge of the plateau
200
Identify ALL the prepositional phrases: Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings except upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.
What is 1. in the mornings 2. upon those not infrequent occasions 3. at the breakfast table
200
Identify ALL the adjective clauses: The boys, who were gathered in a group by the wall, stood on the far side of their bicycles, which established a protective fence between themselves and the girls.
What is 1. who were gathered in a group by the wall 2. which established a protective fence between themselves and the girls
200
Add a participial phrase to the sentence: The doctor prepared for surgery.
What is The doctor prepared for surgery (w/additions).
300
Correct the sentence: As soon as I booked my flight to visit my friends in New York, I am finding that all the prices for plane tickets were plummeting.
As soon as I booked my flight to visit my friends in New York, I found that all the prices for plane tickets had plummeted.
300
Identify the appositive phrase: His fists, huge brown rocks at the ends of those arms, were closed.
What is huge brown rocks (at the ends of those arms)
300
Identify ALL the absolute phrases: His head aching, his throat sore, he forgot to light the cigarette.
What is 1. His head aching 2. His throat sore
300
Identify ALL the adjective clauses: All the day the heat had been barely supportable, but at evening a breeze arose in the West, blowing from the heart of the setting sun and from the ocean, which lay unseen and unheard behind the scrubby foothills.
What is which lay unseen and unheard behind the scrubby foothills
300
Add an absolute phrase to the sentence: The student stared at the test.
What is The student stared at the test (w/ additions).
400
Correct the sentence: People who hate the pollution emitted by cities also tend to have despised the large companies that create the pollution.
People who hate the pollution emitted by cities also tend to despise the large companies that create the pollution.
400
Identify the participial phrase: Crumpled there, he held his temples desperately with both hands and was wretchedly sick.
What is Crumpled there
400
Identify ALL the prepositional phrases: On the way to the island, Ledare had told me sweetly that it was time we began seeing other people, that her parents were insisting that we break up soon after graduation.
What is 1. On the way 2. To the island 3. After graduation
400
Identify ALL the adjective clauses: Keaton, who overtopped Norris by five inches and outweighed him by a hundred pounds, gave the deputy a harsh little shake and then did let go.
What is who overtopped Norris by five inches and outweighed him by a hundred pounds
400
Add a prepositional phrase to the sentence: A single bystander watched everything.
What is A single bystander watched everything (w/additions)
500
Correct the sentence: Although he had never taken piano lessons, anytime that Jeff, who was unusually intelligent, sees a piano he was able to play a song, he is the best musician I know.
Although he has never taken piano lessons, anytime that Jeff, who is unusually intelligent, sees a piano he is able to play a song; he is the best musician I know.
500
Identify ALL the appositive and participial phrases: Tugged here and there in his stockinged feet, bewildered by the numbers, staggered by so much raw flesh, Dr. Sasaki, a skillful surgeon and sympathetic man, became an automaton, a mechanical and impersonal force.
What is 1. Tugged here and there in his stockinged feet (PP) 2. Bewildered by the numbers (PP) 3. Staggered by so much raw flesh (PP) 4. A skillful surgeon and sympathetic man (AP) 5. A mechanical and impersonal force (AP)
500
Identify ALL the absolute and prepositional phrases: From the small crossed window of his room above the stable in the brickyard, Yakov Bok saw people in their long overcoats running somewhere early that morning, everybody hurrying in the same direction.
What is 1. From the small crossed window 2. Of his room 3. Above the stable 4. In the brickyard 5. In their long overcoats 6. Everybody hurrying (in the same direction)
500
Identify the adjective clauses: They dropped his belongings at the freshman dorm, where the only sign of his roommate was a khaki duffel bag and a canvas chair printed to resemble a gigantic hand.
What is where the only sign of his roommate was a khaki duffel bag and a canvas chair printed to resemble a gigantic hand.
500
Add an adjective clause to the sentence: The teacher stood at the front of the room.
What is The teacher stood at the front of the room (w/additions).
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