Proper vs Common Nouns
Choose the word that has a capitalization error.
Bruce Hand, the famous adventurer, was on his way to africa.
a. Hand b. famous
c. adventurer d. africa
d. Africa
It's the name of the country, birthplace of Salva Dut, that has experiences a civil war for over thirty years.
Sudan
When we meet Nya, she is in the midst of carrying out her daily chore for her family. Hint: it takes her several hours to complete this chore.
Fetching water
A simple definition of a pronoun is _______________.
a word that is used to replace a noun in a sentence.
Provide the single, plural, and collective form of the noun: bird
bird , birds, and flock
Choose the word that has a capitalization error.
He was searching for a rare plant that could cure Athlete's foot.
a. Athlete's b. plant
c. rare d. foot
d. foot
Salva is doing this activity when he hears the sounds of war (eg: gunfire, artillery, etc) breaking out, outside.
Daydreaming in class
It is the year when Nya's story takes place in this parallel narrative, "A Long Walk to Water."
2008
True or False: Pronouns are only used when they are needed to replace a proper noun.
Example: "Kristen is a kindly witch doing magic in the Pocono Mountains. It is one of her favorite places in Pennsylvania."
answer: False
Collective nouns refer to a ___________of people, animals, or things.
Example(s): a FLEET of ships; a HERD of cows; a HIVE of bees.
whole group
TWO PART ANSWER: A proper noun can be defined as anything you can "see", "touch" or ___________. Also, because it is a proper noun it must _________________.
possess ; be capitalized
It's where Salva takes shelter during that first night he is away from his village. Subsequently, he sleeps there and wakes up to absolutely no one.
a barn
It is the homemade device that Nya uses to scoop the brackish (eg: dirty, muddy, polluted) water into the container she will carry on top of her head.
A gourd
When author's use foreshadowing they provide hints about ___________.
what will happen next (or later on) in the story
A "pod" refers to the collective noun used to describe this group of aquatic mammals that we discussed in this class.
whales
Choose the word that has a capitalization error.
"Everybody knows the famous Adventurer, Bruce Hand," she replied.
a. Adventurer b. she
c. famous d.Hand
a. adventurer
It is one of the primary reason civil war has broken out in Sudan.
The Northern Sudanese want to make everyone in the south practice Islam, and give up their native cultural practices.
It's the injury that Nya sustains while going to get water.
She has a thorn in her foot
Make an inference:
You always get stopped at the traffic lights on the way to work. On this day, you’re stopped at the same traffic lights – but there’s a long, long line in front of you. It seems there’s heavy traffic, and you know from experience that you’ll likely be late to work if there’s such a long line at these lights. As you get closer to the traffic light you notice, orange safety cones, construction workers, and "NO PARKING HERE from September 12 - October 1" signs. What is most likely the cause of the traffic delay?
a. a traffic accident b. road construction / repaving
c. a broken traffic light d. a detour
b. road construction / repaving
An irregular noun is a noun that doesn't _____________ in order to make the noun plural. Instead, the noun is respelled entirely.
add an "s" at the end of the word
Choose the word that has a capitalization error.
"Kathy is from the Watutu Tribe, but she and Watsu Bangu met at the Sudan university of Technology.
a. Watutu b. Sudan
c. university d. of
c. University
TWO PART QUESTION: Salva belongs to this ethic group found in southern Sudan. This group can easily be spotted if they have these, unique physical features. What is the ethnic group, and what are the physical features?
The Dinka
facial modifications / ritualized scarring
According to Nya's story, the two ethnic groups that have historically HATED each other is ________ and ___________.
The Dinka and Nuer
What is the antecedent of the pronoun "they" in the following sentence:
"It's been a long time since Ryan and Hudson visited the FunPlex in New Jersey. They haven't been there since 2023."
Ryan and Hudson
A _______________is the collective noun that refers to a whole group of geese. There is a popular IDIOM stating that, "if it's good for one of these animals, it's good for _____ (the entire group of these animals)
a gander