Vocab
True or False: An optimist thinks there is more bad than good
False
Change the following sentence into the past form.
She is a football player.
She was a football player
Fill in the questions tag:
Nadia didn't miss lunch, _______________?
did she?
Change this from active to passive:
Somebody stole the last piece of pizza.
The last piece of pizza was stolen.
What is the major problem in a story called?
the climax
Is page-turner a good or bad adjective for a book?
Good
Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb tell.
My parents were disappointed because they __________________ me many times before not to leave my clothes on the floor.
My parents were disappointed because they had told me many times before not to leave my clothes on the floor.
Don't you need another glass of water?
Which is correct:
a) the questioner expects that they want more water
b) the questioner is not sure but wants to check
c) the questioner does not think they want any water
a) the questioner expects that they want more water
Make the following sentence negative:
I loved staying in the old blue house on the banks of the river.
I did not love staying in the old blue house on the banks of the river.
At the end of a passage, the last paragraph is called the _____________________.
Conclusion
What is the antonym of polite using a negative prefix?
(Spell it out)
Impolite
Fill in the blank using the verb dance in the correct form.
Mary was tired in the morning, because she ____________________ with her friends all night.Mary was tired in the morning, because she had been dancing with her friends all night.
Respond to this request with a two word question using a WH question word and a preposition:
Do you have a box I can borrow?
What for?
Fill in the correct preposition:
The cat knocked _________________ the glass of water that was sitting on the table.
The cat knocked over the glass of water that was sitting on the table.
Story plots have a ________________, _________________, and an end
beginning, middle
The meaning of "essentially" in the sentence,
"However, this film is essentially about simple human kindness, and how it often is repaid by kindness"
is most similar in meaning to:
a) possibly
b) carefully
c) basically
c) basically
Rearrange the following words into a complete sentence:
the / congested / missed / the / Jeff / because / been / traffic / last / really / had / train
Jeff missed the last train because the traffic had been really congested.
Change the direct question into an indirect question.
How did the birds find out there was going to be a storm?
Could you explain to me, _______________________________________
Could you explain to me, how the birds found out there was going to be a storm?
Complete the sentence:
Everyone was distracted so did not see the monkey approaching the food, _____________________.
a) when he finally arrived
b) until it was too late
c) at the last minute
b) until it was too late
What does a referent (e.g. pronoun) refer back to?
an antecedent
Give a correct negative statement about a Pacifist
E.g. Pacifists do not support violence or fighting.
Pick one of the following phrasal verbs and use it to complete the phrase in its correct form.
hold on cheer up shut up
My aunt ________________ my baby sister in the other room while we were eating dinner because she had a sore stomach.
My aunt was cheering up my baby sister in the other room while we were eating dinner because, she had a sore stomach.
Replace why in this question:
Why did she have to go to the shops right now?
How come she had to go to the shops right now?
or
What did she have to go to the shops for right now?
Complete the sentence using past tense only, prepositions, articles, and the prompts in brackets:
By the time I _______________________________________.
(arrive / home / dinner / already / make )
By the time I (had) arrived at home the dinner had already been made.
False, it is implicit and a meaning/idea that you get from the context clues.