Grammar 1
Is the following sentence active or passive?
The cake was eaten.
Passive
Identify the direct object in the following sentence.
We built a henhouse in our back yard.
henhouse
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
MLK "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
Nat Turner wasn't going around preaching pie-in-the-sky and "non-violent" freedom for the black man.
Malcolm X "Learning to Read"
Burglary
What is the subject of the following sentence?
After a long interval, the referee made the call.
Referee
what is an appositive?
a noun that restates or renames another noun
Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness, that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.
W.E.B. DuBois "Of Our Spiritual Strivings"
Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust.
MLK "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
What is the name of James Baldwin's nephew, to whom he wrote the letter?
James Baldwin
What is a gerund?
A verbal that ends in ing and acts as a noun.
What is the past perfect form of to be in the first person singular?
I had been
It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.
James Baldwin "Letter to my Nephew"
We can see in the United Nations a new world order being shaped, along color lines -- an alliance among the non-white nations.
Malcolm X "Learning to Read
W.E.B. DuBois helped to found which civil rights organization?
NAACP
Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence.
I took a bus into town.
into town.
According to the formal rules of American English Grammar which pronoun case is correct in the following sentence?
This is (us, we).
we
The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of the questions of social equality is the extremest folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to use must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
Booker T. Washington, "The Atlanta Compromise"
In all things that are purely social, we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
Booker T. Washington "The Atlanta Compromise"
Booker T. Washington was the first head of what school?
The Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University)
Place the comma in the correct place in the following sentence.
I love cheese but I hate Gruyere.
I love cheese, but I hate Gruyere.
Is the adjective clause (all caps) in the following sentence essential or non-essential?
My brother, WHO LIVES IN DETROIT, sells insurance.
Non-essential
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
W.E.B. DuBois "Of Our Spiritual Strivings"
I certainly could not discover any principled reason for not becoming a criminal, and it is not my poor, God-fearing parents who are to be indicted for this lack but this society.
James Baldwin "Letter From a Region in My Mind"
Baldwin begins his "Letter from a Region in my Mind" with a quotation from what poem?
"The White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling