Chapter 2: Effective Sentences and Word Choice
The bay window looked out onto the rolling hills and (forests far away, distant forests).
distant forests
What is this part of a sentence an example of?
From 2000, to 1000 B.C.,
prepositional phrase
Label the sentence as SS, CS, SP, or CP.
Two thousand miles from the nearest continent, South America, lies Easter Island, also called Rapa Nui.
CS
The leaders of the cleanup crew will be you and (I, me).
I
Identify as a participle, infinitive, or a gerund.
Feeling inspired, she proceeded to paint red strokes over the green grass.
participle
Identify the type of sentence below as SF, RO, or a check mark for a complete sentence.
He spent hours writing every day, he wrote in a small hut in his garden.
RO
Identify the part of the sentence were there is a clause.
When people love music, they carry it with them.
they carry it with them
Identify the sentence as SS, CS, SP, or CP.
Has your class studied Easter Island?
CS
Which is a contraction, which is a possessive pronoun.
its, it’s
contraction= it’s
possessive = its
Identify the tense of the verb.
New Zealanders have always appreciated the surrounding sea.
present perfect
Identify the sentence as a RO, SF, or a check mark for a complete sentence.
Ronald Dahl grew up in Wales. Like many children, Dahl kept a journal, he tried to hide it from his siblings.
RO
Identify the part of the sentence as a adjective clause, noun clause, or an adverb clause.
When they were not at war, most Celtic families lived on small farms.
adverb clause
What part of the sentence is stuck?
Just eighty-five miles from their destination, their ship Endurance became stuck in the ice.
predicate adjective
They had to decide if the suspect was guilty.
a. nominative pronoun
b. personal pronoun
c. indefinite pronoun
personal pronoun
Which is the correct tense to use instead of the underlined verb?
Most of Nunavut’s citizens are becoming native Inuit people.
present
Reword the sentence to make it concise.
The house that was brown and on Maple Street was the only house that was sitting in the valley, which was dark and had no lights.
The brown house on Maple Street was sitting in the dark valley.
Combine the sentence adding a subordinating conjunction.
Lucy was pouring some orange juice. The phone rang.
Lucy was pouring some orange juice before the phone rang.
Identify the compound subject or verb.
Shelley had a dream about an odd doctor named Frankenstein and wrote a story about it.
had, wrote
Which is the demonstrative pronoun?
Politicians knew this act would have significant consequences.
there is no demonstrative pronoun
Which term best describes the word?
Canada is divided into ten provinces and three territories.
a. regular
b. passive
c. active
d. infinitive
passive
Identify the sentence as a simile, metaphor, or personification.
The piano was my anchor; if I let go of it, I feared that I might drift away.
metaphor
Combine the sentence using a relative pronoun.
The parade went down Montrose Avenue. It took almost two hours.
The parade went down Montrose Avenue which took almost two hours.
Identify the word as an indirect and/or direct object.
One Michigan teacher gave students their first taste of broadcasting by having them develop school podcasts.
indirect: students
direct: taste
Identify as a Interrogative, Intensive, or Reflexive pronoun.
She wanted help for her children, not herself.
reflexive
Which type of phrase is shouting out?
Lone goose, shouting out, shoots overhead at daybreak wishing for marshland.
participle phrase