Night
The story starts in the author's hometown of ____
What is Sighet, Romania
A sentence with this type of verb has a direct object
What is a transitive verb
Does this sentence have an action or linking verb?
He thought about moving to Paris.
What is action (thought is the verb and shows a mental action)
A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb
What is an adverb
A word that expresses emotion or exclamation
What is an interjection
This type of story is nonfiction and focuses on a specific area of the author's life
What is memoir
Does this sentence have an action or linking verb?
My grandmother is a respected doctor.
What is linking (the verb is "is" and shows state of being)
This type of verb helps the main verb to express action or state of being
What is a helping verb
words that show the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word
What is a preposition
a word that joins single words or groups of words
what is a conjunction
What makes you consider how you relate to others and what obligations we might have to others?
What is the universe of obligation
Is this sentence transitive or intransitive?
Sally cooked with salt
What is intransitive ("with salt" is a prepositional phrase and not a direct object. Therefore, there is no direct object, so it is intransitive)
Does this sentence have an action or linking verb?
The students studied for the test.
What is action (studied is the verb)
This type of conjunction joins two ideas or clauses so that one is grammatically dependent on the other
What is a subordinate conjunction
This is a form of discrimination or hostility toward the Jewish people as a group
What is Antisemitism
What is the tense of the following verb or verb phrase: had stopped
What is past perfect
This indirectly receives the action of the verb and answers the questions to what? or to whom?
What is an indirect object
Identify the adverb and the word it is modifying: She spoke gently to the baby.
Adverb: gently. It is modifying spoke
What is the conjunction in the following sentence and what kind of conjunction is it? Both my sister and my brother are doctors
What is both...and. It is a correlative conjunction
The language that Night was originally written in
What is Yiddish
What is the verb and tense in the following sentence: I walk to school every day. Translate it into present progressive (or present continuous)
Verb: walk, it is simple present tense
Present Progressive: am walking
Does this sentence have an action or linking verb?
I am listening to a mystery podcast.
What is action (am listening is the whole verb phrase, am becomes a helping verb.
Identify the adverb and the word it is modifying: The soup is really hot.
Adverb: really. It is modifying hot
What is the conjunction in the following sentence and what kind of conjunction is it? After I eat, I want to go rock climbing
What is after. It is a subordinate conjunction