Grammar Worth Knowing
Write a sentence starting with a 'gerund'.
- Ex: Playing instruments is good for the soul.
What is an idiom?
- A well-understood, non-literal expression.
- What does 'sky's the limit' mean?
- Endless possibilities
What action do you need to take to score in sports like soccer, hockey, and basketball?
- Shoot
Make this sentence 'passive voice': The group was building a legacy before the accident occurred.
- A legacy was being built before the accident occurred.
What is a simile? Use one.
- He's as long as a giraffe.
- He looks like a disgruntled pelican!
What does 'the black sheep' mean?
- Someone/something that doesn't fit in with the rest of the group.
What are 5 countries south of Mexico and north of Colombia?
- Costa Rica / Nicaragua / El Salvador / Panama / Guatemala
What modal do we use to confidently speculate about the past? Use it in a sentence.
- must
- I'm really hungover. I must have drunk a lot last night.
Use parallelism to describe things you enjoy doing on summer days.
- Ex: Summer days are great because I can play in the sun, go to the beach, and enjoy longer days.
What does 'best of both worlds' mean?
- When you can take advantage of two distinct advantages.
Use two different formats (2 sentences) to compare two different Avengers...
- Captain America is not as strong as Thor.
- The Hulk is more important than Ant Man.
What's the difference between lie and lay? What are the past participles of these verbs?
- 'lie' is intransitive (doesn't need an object). I lie flat on the ground.
- 'lay' is transitive (needs an object). She lays her book on the bed.
- lie -- lain // lay -- laid
Change the sentence order to emphasize how the man felt: The man took the test and was biting his lip.
- Ex: Biting his lip, the man took the test.
- Ex: Even better... Nervously biting his lip, the man took the test.
What does 'bite the bullet' mean? Use it in an example.
- To no procrastinate and just do something that you know needs to be done.
- I have a big test coming up. I need to bite the bullet and start studying.
Give three appropriate 3+ syllable adjectives to describe hockey players.
- Ex: decisive / athletic / coordinated
- Ex: ferocious / capable / resilient
What are 3 different ways we can make this request more polite: 'Let me have some water.'
- Can I have some water?
- Could I please have some water?
- Do you mind if I have some water?
What is the 4-P Model stand for and what does it help you do?
- Picture. Promise. Proof. Push
- It provides a format to persuade.
What does 'a dime a dozen' mean? What can you think of that fits that description?
- Something is so common that it's worthless.
- San on the beach. / sappy pop songs.
What does the status of "Double O" (00) mean in James Bond?
- That he has (or someone else with that title) the license to kill.