MUSIC TO MY EARS
The sentence pattern used below.
Last night, Ed Sheeran taught the crowd a new chant.
What is S-V-IO-DO?
The only stative verb on the list.
give, study, taste, talk
What is taste?
The verb that agrees with the subject below:
Some of the milk I bought for my cat ___ gone.
is, are, am
What is "is"?
The words that complete the sentence in passive voice below.
Active: Volunteer students gave Yangco a bath last week.
Passive: Yangco ___ a bath by volunteer students last week.
What is "was given"?
The verb tense used to express recently completed actions.
Unfortunately, tryouts for the soccer club have just ended.
What is present perfect?
The degree of comparison used to describe something at the top of its category, usually when comparing three or more things.
Ariana Grande's latest album is the best, but it is the least awarded.
What is the superlative degree?
A type of relative clause that offers extra information about something but is unimportant and is set off by commas.
Mexico, which has lots of gorgeous beaches, is my next travel destination.
What is a non-essential/non-restrictive relative clause?
One of two types of articles that refers to unspecified things.
On April 10, 2025, a businessman and his driver were found dead on a roadside in Rodriguez, Rizal.
What is an indefinite article?
A type of verb that takes on a supportive role, such as creating grammatical tenses.
Recently, a lot of students have graduated.
What is an auxiliary verb?
A type of conditional that describes an unreal, hypothetical situation in the past.
If they had prepared better, they would have won the match.
What are third/type three conditional sentences?
A type of subject that takes up space without adding meaning.
There is so much controversy surrounding the beef between Cardi B and Nicki Minaj.
What is a dummy subject?
The phrasal verb that can complete the sentence:
We had to ____ our trip to Barcelona because of inclement weather.
call off, call out, set off, set out
What is "call off"?
The type of verbal represented by the example below.
The helicopter heading to New Jersey on April 11, 2025 fell apart in mid-air and plummeted to the ground.
What is a present participle?
A term used to refer to adverbs, phrases, or clauses that can modify a verb, an adjective, or a complete sentence.
The HR immediately gave me a memo.
Power lines are held every morning.
Because Teacher Leo is absent, I'm taking over her work today.
What is an adverbial?
These clauses are incomplete sentences even though they have a subject and a verb. They usually start with a conjunction or a relative pronoun.
Cherry likes to stay up late because no one bothers her at night.
What is a dependent clause?
A grammatical error where a modifier describes something that is not included in a sentence.
Taking the grandest bow, the Eras Tour ended on a bittersweet note.
What is a dangling modifier?
An umbrella term for words that appear before a noun, providing clarifying context about the number, definiteness, or ownership of the noun.
I have two tickets to the Bahamas.
The increased taxi fare was a scam.
His travel pictures went viral.
What is a determiner?
A term used to refer to a person, place, thing, or clause represented by a pronoun.
Recently, Trump has imposed high tariffs on imported goods. Americans say he has started to negatively impact the global economy.
What is an antecedent?
One of three grammatical moods in English that expresses wishes, hopes, desires, and any other imagined outcomes.
I wish pay day came quicker.
Manager Apple suggested that we finish our work early.
What is the subjunctive mood?
The missing word in the series of adjectives below.
opinion, size, age, ____, color, origin, material, purpose
What is shape?
Every word in English belongs to at least one part of speech.
John Legend has a bachelor's degree in English.
Name all eight parts of speech.
What is:
noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, conjunction, preposition, interjection
Indirect speech is when we tell someone what another person said.
The Hollywood Reporter: Suzanne Collins' new novel "Sunrise on the Reaping" sold 1.5 million copies last week.
Turn this sentence into indirect speech.
The Hollywood Reporter said that Suzanne Collin's new novel "Sunrise on the Reaping" had sold 1.5 million copies the week before.
Modal verbs are words that express conditions such as possibility, ability, necessity, and permission.
According to PAGASA, April and May may be the warmest months, with maximum temperatures forecast at 39 degrees in Northern Luzon.
Give two sentences with modals that indicate permissions or requests.
will, would, can, could, may, might
A subordinating conjunction is a word or phrase that links a dependent clause to an independent clause.
Give five examples of subordinating conjunctions.
What is:
after, although, as, because, before, even if, even though, if, in case, in order that, in the event that, once, if, provided that, since, so, though, unless, until, when, whenever, where, whereas, wherever, while
Causative verbs are used when the subject caused the action to happen, but didn't do it themselves.
I had my house painted last month.
Give two sentences with causatives, each with a different one.
have, make, let, help
get, allow, force, permit, require, etc.