Capitalization
kinsbury road is a dead-end street.
Kinsbury Road
He's the rich but selfish ruler of Russia who is killed so communism can replace the absolute monarchy.
Who is Czar Nicolas II?
When he is younger, Oedipus hears a certain prophecy. He runs away in distress and unease from what he has heard, and during his journey, he encounters this person and does this to him.
What is that he kills his biological father Laius, causing the very event he was trying to escape/prevent?
State whether the following sentence is compound or complex.
He wants to walk to the theater, but I want to take the bus.
Compound
A FANBOY is used: "but."
You do capitalize special events, holidays or days of the week.
True.
my mother wants me to take spanish and general science next year.
My, Spanish
Communism is a system of government where everyone is ________________, and therefore it is supposed to be ________________.
What are the words "equal" and . . . ahem, "fair."
As a teenager, the oracle comes to Oedipus and gives him these rather memorable and infamous prophecies.
What is that he will kill his father and marry his mother?
State whether the following sentence is compound or complex.
Many shopkeepers were upset because the figures were so very costly.
Complex
"Because" is a subordinating conjunction that therefore begins a a subordinate clause which addresses the question of why something happened.
You capitalize every subject you have in school.
False: you only capitalize when it is a language (English; Spanish; French, Japanese) or if it has a number/letter behind it.
My brother attended harvard university.
Harvard University
He was the cruel tyrant who ruled the Soviet Union; arguably every bit as undesirable of a leader as the czar, just in a different way.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
What does the oracle tell the King and Queen that made them want to get rid of their infant son?
What is he will kill his father?
DAILY DOUBLE
State whether the following sentence is compound or complex. State why.
Muslims have been particularly pleased since the new mosque opened in spring.
Complex
The clause "since the new mosque opened in spring" is behaving like an adverb by describing when the verb of the main clause took place.
We don't capitalize words like store, hotel, or high school unless they have a name of a particular building or organization.
True.
turn left on yale avenue and right on college road.
Turn, Yale, Avenue, College, Road
This is the reason providing the farm buildings with electrical power was ultimately shunned.
What is that in his totalitarian regime, Stalin literally wanted to work his citizens to death so that they would be too exhausted to rebel. Power had corrupted him absolutely.
This is the specific act that Oedipus performs on himself that symbolizes his guilt, his shame, his ignorance, but oddly enough, his belated ability to obtain wisdom, see the real truth, and be at final peace with himself.
What is that he stabs and gouges out both of his own eyes?
Identify the following sentence as compound or complex, state why.
Several theories have been proposed, yet no single theory explains all the evidence.
Compound
The FANBOY "yet" conjoins two independent clauses.
You never capitalize relatives titles Example: mom, aunt.
False: you capitalize them when they replace their name!
after school i'm going to my piano lesson at mrs. garcia's house.
After, I'm, Mrs., Garcia's
This is Orwell's specific point about collectivism/communism.
What is that, in the end, the system fails because treating everyone equally is not fair: some creatures work harder than others and get no more reward or recognition from their back-breaking work than those don't work at all. Everyone gets the same whether they are slaving away or not!
This is the sphinx's riddle and the answer to it.
What goes on 4 legs in the morning, 2 legs in the afternoon, and 3 legs at night? A human.
State whether the following sentence is compound or complex, by identifying all the clauses in this sentence.
When the British explorer Captain Cook visited the island in 1774, he noticed that many of the statues had been overturned.
This is a complex sentence because there is an independent clause and a subordinate clause: "when the British explorer Captain Cook visited the island in 1774." This subordinate clause is behaving like an adverb, and thus is called an adverb clause.
F.Y.I., the independent clause is, "He noticed that many of the statues had been overturned."
You always capitalize directions like east, south, north and west.
False: no need to capitalize when you talk about directions.