Ch 1
Is this a Broad or Narrow topic for a 2 page paper?
Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s
Broad
Which option shows more colorful language?
As she lay on the grass, (a big went past her face; a mosquito grazed her cheek).
a mosquito grazed her cheek
What part of speech is leader?
In August 1914, Ernest Shackleton became the leader of an expedition to cross Antarctica.
Predicate nominative
In this sentence is Britain a concrete noun?
One event during the colonial times—the Boston Tea Party— led the colonies to support each other instead of Britain.
Britain is a concrete noun.
What is the best replacement for the underlined section in this sentence?
Which country have had the most land.
Has
List two out of the five details that would strengthen an essay.
Ideas and Content; Organization; Sentence Fluency; Word Choice; Voice
What figure of speech is used in this sentence?
A sentence without adjectives is like a pizza without toppings.
Simile
What part of this sentence is stuck?
Just eighty-five miles from their destination, their ship Endurance became stuck in the ice.
Predicate Adjective
Is there a demonstrative pronoun in this sentence?
Politicians knew this act would have significant consequences.
There is no demonstrative pronoun
Is this sentence passive or active voice?
In a survey of species in in Canada, plants were outnumbered by fungi.
Passive voice
List the remaining three of the five details that would strengthen an essay.
Ideas and Content; Organization; Sentence Fluency; Word Choice; Voice
What is a metaphor?
A metaphor compares two unlike thing by stating that one thing is another. A metaphor does not use like or as.
Is the underlined section in this sentence a simple subject, complete subject, simple predicate, or complete predicate?
Here is a picture of Easter Island.
simple subject
What type of noun is jury in this sentence?
Let the jury take a lunch break.
Collective noun
What is the verb in this sentence, and what kind of verb is it?
As I fall for a long time, I smell the salt air.
Verb- smell
Type of verb- linking verb
What needs to be changed in this sentence?
My new school is grate.
Change grate to great.
Choose the option that makes the sentence parallel.
The machinery was beeping and (made a clicking noise; clicking) all night.
Clicking
Is the underlined section in this sentence a simple subject, complete subject, simple predicate, or complete predicate?
The statues ranged from 10 to 37 feet tall and weighed 20 to 80 tons.
Simple Predicate
What type of noun is the word decision in this sentence?
A decision was forthcoming.
Abstract noun
What is the past participle tense of misunderstand?
Have/ had misunderstood
What change could best improve this sentence?
Even though bees can seem bad, they are very important to this essential process.
Replace bad with a more precise word.
Is this a run-on, sentence fragment, or complete sentence?
Here, where a pound of tattered cloth could be bought for a dollar, Whitney saw potential.
Complete sentence
What are the compound subjects and verbs in this sentence?
In the 1930s, Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester played the monster and the monster’s wife in a movie based on Shelly’s story.
Compound subjects- Boris Karloff; Elsa Lanchester
Compound verbs- played; based
What type of pronoun is yourself in this sentence?
Give yourself a pat on the back.
Reflective pronoun
What type of verbal is underlined in this sentence?
Natalie and Jared set up their materials for painting outdoors.
Gerund