Sentence Structure
The Curious Incident
Grammar
Whats Wrong?
The Handmaid's Tale
100
The two parts of a sentence. Used together they express a complete thought
What is a subject and verb?
100
The author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. Born September 1962 in England.
Who is Mark Haddon?
100
A word that takes the place of a noun
What is a pronoun?
100
"Lee went to the beauty parlour. To have her nails done for the vampire party.
What is a sentence fragment?
100
In Gilead, the Wives wear blue, the Marthas wear green and the Econowives wear _______
What are stripes?
200
A word that describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
200
She is a teacher at Christopher's school. She has tried to help him understand facial expressions
Who is Siobhan?
200
A sentence that either starts or ends abruptly.
What is fragment?
200
"some plates of cookies is on the table for you.
What is subject and verb disagreement?
200
Old women are rarely seen any more; they are sent to the _______
What are the colonies?
300
It describes a noun. also known as the predicate.
What is a verb?
300
Christopher finds people confusing because of this literary device. Often used in poetry.
What is a metaphor?
300
A piece of punctuation that separates two complete thoughts.
What is a semi colon?
300
"Molly has finally took aspirin for the headache she's had all day"
What is an irregular verb?
300
the greeting that Ofglen says to Offred when walking to town
What is Mayday?
400
It sits before a noun to to show the nouns relationship to another word
What is a preposition?
400
The setting of the story. Named in "the 20 best places to buy a property in Britain" by The Times in 2008.
What is Swindon?
400
He to who; Him to _______
What is whom?
400
"Single life offers more freedom of choice; more security is offered by marriage."
What is a nonparallel sentence?
400
The lower class guards, usually young men
What are the Guardians?
500
Words that join a dependent clause to an independent clause. Words such as: if, because, although, when etc.
What is a subordinating conjunction?
500
The chapters in this book are _________ numbers
What is Prime?
500
examples such as: after, although, because, since, unless, until, while and others.
What is a dependant word?
500
"Grandmother's china and silverware were distributed evenly between she and him."
What is an object pronoun error?
500
Where National Homeland One is located
What is North Dakoda?
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