Verbal Ventures
Identify the verbal and its type: “Ezinma wanted to help her mother.”
What is: to help - infinitive
Is this an independent or dependent clause?
Because the drums sounded
What is a dependent clause
This acronym helps us remember the seven coordinating conjunctions.
What is "FANBOYS"?
I defeated Amalinze the Cat and became famous throughout the nine villages.
Who is Okonkwo?
This crop is associated with masculinity and is called the “king of crops.”
What is a yam?
Identify the verbal and its type: “Wrestling brought the villages together.”
What is “wrestling,” a gerund?
Is this an independent or dependent clause?
The crowd rushed toward the wrestling match.
What is an independent clause
Identify the coordinating conjunction:
Okonkwo respected strength, but he feared appearing weak.
What is "but"?
I was sent from Mbaino to live with Okonkwo’s family.
Who is Ikemefuna?
This annual celebration honors Ani and the clan’s ancestors before the new harvest.
What is The Feast of the New Yam?
Identify the verbal and its type: The cheering crowd surrounded the wrestlers.
What is “cheering,” a participle?
Identify the dependent clause:
Chielo, who served as Agbala’s priestess, spoke to Ekwefi.
What is “who served as Agbala’s priestess”?
Classify this sentence:
Because his harvest failed, Unoka consulted the Oracle.
What is a complex sentence?
In ordinary life, I am Ekwefi’s friend, but I also serve as the priestess of Agbala.
Who is Chielo?
Okonkwo violates this sacred observance by beating his wife.
What is the Week of Peace?
Is the italicized word a gerund, participle, infinitive, or part of the main verb?
The villagers were celebrating the arrival of the locusts.
What is part of the main verb?
How many independent and dependent clauses appear in this sentence?
Although Ezinma was ill, Okonkwo gathered medicine, and Ekwefi watched anxiously.
What is two independent clauses and one dependent clause?
Classify this sentence:
The villagers gathered, and the drums began to sound.
What is a compound sentence?
In Igbo culture, I am a person’s personal god and am believed to influence that person’s fortune.
What is a chi?
This fear causes Okonkwo to ignore Ezeudu’s warning and participate in Ikemefuna’s death.
What is the fear of appearing weak?
Identify all three verbals and their types:
Listening to the singing birds, Ezinma enjoyed walking through the compound.
What is “listening,” a participle; “singing,” a participle; and “walking,” a gerund?
Identify and label all the clauses:
When the locusts descended, the villagers celebrated because the insects were considered a delicacy.
What is “when the locusts descended,” dependent; “the villagers celebrated,” independent; and “because the insects were considered a delicacy,” dependent?
Classify the sentence and identify its conjunctions:
Although Nwoye preferred his mother’s stories, he pretended to enjoy Okonkwo’s tales, for he feared disappointing his father.
What is a compound-complex sentence, with “although” as the subordinating conjunction and “for” as the coordinating conjunction?
I am the buried object believed to connect an ogbanje child to the spirit world.
What is an iyi-uwa?
This discovery beneath an orange tree convinces the family that Ezinma is an ogbanje.
What is the discovery of Ezinma’s iyi-uwa?