Phrases
What is a gerund?
The type of clause that can stand by itself
What is an independent clause?
Name the voice: The books were returned to the library.
What is passive voice?
A long, stylized narrative poem celebrating the deeds of a national hero of legend
What is an epic?
The type of action verb that has a receiver
What is a transitive verb?
A person, place, thing, or idea
What is a noun?
The other name for the Middle Ages
What are the Dark Ages?
The type of verbal that is always an adjective
What is an appositive?
Type of clause that cannot stand by itself
Name the tense: will be learning
What is future progressive?
A story with both a literal and an implied level of meaning
What is an allegory?
The type of verb that connects the subject to another word in the sentence
What is a linking verb?
modifies a noun or pronoun
What is an adjective?
England's greatest legend
Who is King Arthur?
The type of verbal that begins with the word to
What is an infinitive?
Congress approved the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System in 1973 oil production began in June of 1977.
What is the type of mistake was made? (fragment, comma splice, fused sentence)
What is a fused sentence?
Name the tense: had been learning
What is past perfect progressive?
Arguably historical story that is popularly believed but lacks factual evidence
What is a legend?
The word that follows a linking verb that renames the subject
modifies a verb, adjective, or adverb
What is an adverb?
Jewel of Anglo-Saxon literature
What is Beowulf?
The type of phrase that renames or identifies a preceding noun or pronoun
What is an appositive phrase?
Subordinating conjunctions, indefinite relative adverbs, and indefinite relative adverbs begin this type of clause
What is a noun clause?
Name the voice: A new sales position was given was given to Julie.
What is passive voice?
An indirect reference to ideas outside a work of literature
What is an allusion?
The direct object of a passive voice sentence
What is a retained object?
a word that can stand alone, punctuated as a sentence, or that can appear along with a sentence in which it takes no real part
What is an interjection?
Popularized the sonnet
Who is Petrarch?
What is an absolute phrase?
Subordinating conjunctions and indefinite relative adverbs begin this type of clause
What is an adverb clause?
Name the mood: If I were you, I would study diligently for the test.
What is subjunctive mood?
Addressing a nonpersonal or absent object as if it were able to reply
What is an apostrophe?
Many tourists brought their friends apples from the mountains.
Name the sentence pattern.
What is S-TrV-IO-DO?
Type of conjunction: either--or, neither--nor, not only--but also, both--and
What is a correlative conjunction?
Wrote Paradise Lost
John Milton
Pharaoh's daughter having rescued Mosed from the bulrushes, the royal household increased in size.
The underlined words are what type of phrase?
What is an absolute phrase?
Relative pronouns and relative adverbs begin this type of clause
What is an adjective clause?
Name the mood: I enjoy visiting the local ice cream shop.
What is indicative mood?
Narrative poems of folk origin, intended to be sung
What is a ballad?
Inuit communities are in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Russia.
Name the sentence pattern.
What is S-BE-Advl?
Type of conjunction: and, but, or, nor, for, yet
What is a coordinating conjunction?
The new school of poets who reacted against the “flowery language” of the Tudor poets by writing from a more realistic point of view
Who are the metaphysical poets?
Being cut in a wedge-shape, the hedge receives sun and rain on all its branches.
The underlined words are what type of phrase?
What is a participle?
One athlete who enjoyed success in the 1970s was the tennis player Arthur Ashe.
The underlined clause is which type?
What is adjective clause?
Name the voice: The puppy is very cute.
What is active voice?
A tale that treats a trivial subject in heroic terms
What is a mock epic?
Sarah's investment in disabled chickens became very profitable.
Name the sentence pattern.
What is S-LV-PA?
Type of conjunction that begins a dependent clause
What is a subordinating conjunction?
Refers to favoring the rule of reason and knowledge in all areas of life
What is Rationalism?
Late in the season, the newly grown branches should be cut back about half-way.
What is the participial phrase in this sentence?
What is newly grown?
It became a matter of interest whether other archaeological sites surrounded this ancient Chinese tomb
The underlined clause is which type?
What is a noun clause?
Name the mood: The chairman made the motion that the meeting be adjourned.
What is subjunctive mood?
A brief disclosure made by one actor in the presence of other actors who are thought not to hear him
What is an aside?
Karen was made captain of the spelling bee study group.
Name the sentence pattern.
What is S-TrV-SC?
Type of pronoun: no one
What is an indefinite pronoun?
Refers to favoring natural theology over revealed theology
What is Deism?
Differing from his previous common surroundings, Moses' daily experience included seeing furniture with gold and silver leaf.
What function (not part of speech) do the underlined words play in this sentence?
What is a direct object?
Barnum had never heard her sing, but he relied on what others had told him of the young singer.
This is what type of sentence? (s, cd, cx, cd-cx)
What is compound-complex?
The tense used to tell a story that is not a work of fiction
What is past tense?
Records a place’s or group’s history chronologically by year
What is a chronicle?
Daniel was given a good grade based on his grammar knowledge.
Name the sentence pattern.
What is S-Trv-RO?
Type of pronoun: each other
What is a reciprocal pronoun?
Refers to society emerging from superstition and crudity into reasons clear light
What is Enlightenment?
For hot coffee, the best thing to do is wait until it cools.
Besides to do, what is the verbal phrase in this sentence?
What is wait until it cools?
After he negotiated a contract to bring her to America, he began a masterful advertising campaign.
This is what type of sentence? (s, cd, cx, cd-cx)
What is complex?
The tense used for an action that precedes another action in the past
What is past perfect?
Biography of the saints
What is a hagiography?
Jonathan considered his sister, Abby, an enemy.
Name the sentence pattern.
Type of pronoun: some
What is an indefinite pronoun?
The word means "rebirth"
What is Renaissance?