Greed: The Ultimate Addiction
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Active/Passive Voice
Subject/Verb Agreement
Final Jeopardy
100
Who wrote "Greed: The Ultimate Addiction"?
Leon Seltzer.
100
Who wrote "Beowulf"?
Trick Question: No one knows who wrote "Beowulf."
100
Active or Passive: The papers were delivered by Mr. Davis.
Passive
100
What word is incorrect here? Jim love to eat chicken.
love should be loves.
200
The word audacity means...
The willingness to take bold risks.
200
Define Didactic.
Something that is intended to teach you.
200
Active or Passive: Many great stories about the deep south were written by William Faulkner.
Passive
200
What is the mistake? He was first in his class until he got that B. Now he be in second place.
"Now he be" should be "Now he is"
300
The word inoculate means...
To introduce a serum or vaccine into the body of a person or animal to produce or boost immunity to a specific disease
300
Who was "mankind's enemy"?
Grendel.
300
Fix this sentence: Pizza was dropped by Jose, and everyone laughed.
Jose dropped the pizza, and everyone laughed.
300
The girls always talk and talk and talk. Sometimes I wished that they would just shut up!
"wished" should not be in the past tense. It should be "wish."
400
Who was the audience in "Greed: The Ultimate Addiction"?
Average people.
400
"The capital T Truth is about life before death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over: FINISH THE QUOTE (IT IS THE NAME OF THE PASSAGE)
This is water.
400
Fill in the blank: "Form of To Be + _________ = Passive Voice"
Past Tense Verb
400
If the subject of the sentence is plural, what should happen to the verb?
The verb should not have an "s" at the end.
500
What was Leon Seltzer's major argument?
That addiction to wealth was the worst addiction of all time.
500
Identify and explain the allusion (what is the importance of the allusion): He was spawned in that slime, conceived by a pair of those monsters born of Cain, murderous creatures banished of Abel’s death.
The story of Cain and Abel ties Grendel to the root of all evil.
500
Change this sentence into the active voice: The greatest story of all is "The Sound and the Fury" written by William Faulkner.
William Faulkner wrote "The Sound and the Fury," which is the greatest story of all. OR William Faulkner wrote the greatest story of all: "The Sound and the Fury."
500
When you write about literature, what tense must you almost always use?
The present tense.
500
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