Day 1
Identify the subject and the verb in the following sentence:
My dog barks loudly at strangers.
Subject: My dog
Verb: Barks
True or False:
Conditionals contain If-clauses and dependent and independent clauses.
True
Insert the correct pronouns:
"Sofia gave ___ friend Luis ___ birthday gift"
Sofia gave her friend Luis his birthday gift"
What is the main idea of these sentences?
Russia is the largest country on Earth. It takes up a large area in both Europe and Asia.
Russia is a very large country.
"If she had done her homework, she would have been prepared for today's class." is an example of what type of conditional?
Third.
Which of the following is not a relative pronoun?
- who
- which
- hence
- that
- whose
- where
Hence is not a relative pronoun.
Identify the error:
I want (A) Mexico to won (B) the World Cup (C).
B is the mistake.
How should the sentence actually be said?
Singular subjects need singular verbs, while plural subjects need plural verbs. This is the definition of what?
Subject-Verb Agreement
"The lady lies down to rest at the end of a difficult work day"
In this context, what does "lies" probably mean?
A) Tells a falsehood
B) Gets in a horizontal position
C) To belong to a person or thing
The correct answer is B.
Reduce the clause the following sentence:
"The iPhone, which came out in 2007, has revolutionized modern technology."
Remove the adjective clause in the following sentence:
The student, who studied all day, aced their exam.
The student aced their exam.
True or False:
Superlatives compare two things, while comparatives compare one thing to a group.
False.
Comparatives compare two things, while superlatives compare one thing to a group.
Correct the verb tense error:
"The class have wrote their final exams"
"The class has written their final exams"
"That math test was so hard! It took me the entire period."
What is "it"?
What is the correct word form for the following sentence:
He walked very ____
A) Slow
B) Slower
C) Slowly
D) Slowest
C) Slowly
If "My brother cooked dinner last night" is an example of a sentence in active voice, how might you re-phrase this sentence into passive voice?
Dinner was cooked by my brother last night.
subject + verb + object --> object + verb + subject.
When the order of a sentence changes the verb to go before the subject, this is called...
An inversion
True or False:
Prepositions can always be literally translated and have no need to be memorized.
False.
Prepositions should be memorized because they cannot always be literally translated.
"When Maria picked herself up everyone could see that her cheeks were very red."
What can we infer?
A) Maria hurt herself
B) Maria was unbothered
C) Maria was embarrassed
Maria was embarrassed because she tripped.
Negative adverbial inversion
Connectors help join ideas and smoothly transition between paragraphs and sentences. In which cases would you use a connector? Give three examples.
Acceptable responses: To add, To contrast, To show cause, To show time/sequence, To give an example, To compare, To conclude.
Identify the gerund and the infinitive in the following sentence:
My mom likes to listen to music when she is cooking.
Gerund: Cooking
Infinitive: to listen
Why would "university" be preceded by "a" and not "an" if it starts with the letter u?
Because articles are determined by the vowel sounds not the vowels themselves.
Ex. an hour because of the silent h
"Outlets need electricity in order to give power to appliances."
Why is electricity important?
A) It supplies power to appliances
B) It is pretty
C) It allows cars to drive
The answer is A.
Fix the following pronoun and preposition errors:
"They was afraid at heights."
"They were afraid of heights."