Parts of speech
Other Grammar
ACT Style
Popular Literature
Miscellaneous
100
A person, place, thing, or idea is called this...
What is a noun
100
True or False: This is correct apostrophe usage... My brother's baseball is his favorite toy.
What is true
100
I grew up with buckets, shovels, and nets waiting by the back door; hip-waders hanging in the closet; tide table charts covering the refrigerator door; and a microscope *was sitting* on the kitchen table. F. NO CHANGE G. would sit H. sitting J. sat
What is H- sitting (Sitting follows the parallel structure...waiting, hanging, sitting")
100
Grendel is a monster in this epic poem...
What is Beowulf.
100
Spell the first and last name of your teacher...
What is K I M H E A L Y or K I M B E R L Y H E A L Y
200
I walked to the store. Walked is this part of speech.
What is a verb
200
True or False: This is correct subject verb agreement... She have a lot of friends.
What is false
200
*Having studied, my mother is* a marine biologist. A. NO CHANGE B. As my mother’s interest is science, she is C. My mother’s occupation is that of D. My mother is
What is D. My mother is (It is the most clear, concise answer)
200
Holden Caulfield is the lonely teenager hiding out in New York after flunking out of another prep school in this JD Salinger book...
What is Catcher in the Rye
200
Spell the first and last name of our principal
What is S H E L D O N H O U S E
300
"Under the bridge" is an example of this...
What is a prepositional phrase
300
Place the commas where they belong... Because of my peanut allergy I cannot eat peanut butter almond cookies or peanut brittle.
What is Because of my peanut allergy, I cannot eat peanut butter, almond cookies, or peanut brittle.
300
*The moon being* closer to the earth when full, so its gravitational pull is stronger. A. NO CHANGE B. Since the moon is C. The moon is D. The moon,
What is C. The moon is (This choice creates a structurally sound compound sentence with two complete independent clauses connected by the coordinating conjunction so.)
300
In Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye", Pecola wants this more than anything...
What are blue eyes.
300
There are 3 things that Ms. Healy really dislikes. Name one of them.
What are snow fish comma splices
400
He is my best friend. He is an example of this part of speech...
What is a pronoun
400
This is correct apostrophe usage... Emilys' phone is always ringing.
What is false
400
The moon is closer to the earth when full, so *its* gravitational pull is stronger. F. NO CHANGE G. one’s H. it’s J. its’
What is F. NO CHANGE (It is not possessive.)
400
Professor Snape and Professor McGonagall are educators in this book turned movie series...
What is Harry Potter
400
Spell the name of our school mascot...
What is W O L V E R I N E
500
She never wins, nor does she want to. Nor is an example of a...
What is a (coordinating) conjunction
500
Correctly place the commas... On April 14 1912 the Titanic hit an iceberg took in a lot of water and eventually sank.
What is On April 14, 1912, the Titanic hit an iceberg, took in a lot of water, and eventually sank.
500
Later, we would see her sitting at the kitchen table, peering *at a drop of water* through the lenses of her microscope from the bottle—watching the thousands of tiny swimming organisms. The best placement for the underlined portion (in between the starred portion) would be: A. where it is now. B. after the word lenses. C. after the word microscope. D. after the word bottle (but before the dash).
What is C. after the word microscope (It is the only choice where the sentence elements are placed in a logical, comprehensible order. The mother is "peering through the lenses of her microscope at a drop of water from the bottle." No other order makes sense.)
500
In this text, the main character gouges his own eyes out after realizing that his wife is actually his mother...
What is Oedipus
500
What does this sentence/phrase say? ¿Qué dice este frases?
What is What does this sentence/phrase say?
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