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A matter of style
Verbal spanking
It’s tricky
This you should know
Are you smart?
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The word classes of descriptive words are?
What is adjectives and adverbs?
100
What do you call the following: Shall, will, can, may, must, ought to ? Explain how they are different from ordinary verbs?
What are modal verbs - only to be found in the present and past tenses
100
Which of the following words are spelt correctly? Mispelled/misspelled Cemetery/cematery Concience/conscience Embarrassment/embarrasment
What are misspelled cemetery conscience embarrassment
100
In which text does the writer draw attention to the growing income disparity of New York?
What is A tale of two New York Cities: I was rich my, brother was down and out
100
What do these nouns all have in common? Furniture, information, advice, money
What are uncountable nouns that take the verb in the singular.
200
Use two precise words to describe the contrast in style between the people of the Capitol and the people of District 12
What is costumes and rags
200
What do the following verbs have in common?: avoid, cannot help, enjoy, finish, give up, mind
What are verbs that can only be followed by -ing on the next verb
200
2. Complete the following sentence, using either practise or practice: They say that--------- makes perfect, but I still don’t have time to -------- guitar every day.
What is They say that practice makes perfect, but I still don’t have time to practise guitar every day.
200
From which text comes the following quote: ..”Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.”
What is The Danger of a Single Story?
200
What do these nouns have in common? People and police
What are plural verbs?
300
Name the three rhetorical modes of appeal and explain their use?
What are Logos, Ethos and Pathos? Logos - appeals to sense of reason Ethos - appeals to sense of ethics and morals Pathos - appeals to emotions
300
3. Identify the verb tenses in the following sentences. • For the last couple of months he had been late every morning. • They had been driving for hours when they saw the ocean spread out in front of them. • I have been living on this island my whole life and I have never seen the sea, the old woman exclaimed.
What are: past perfect, past perfect progressive, past tense, present perfect progressive, present perfect and past tense!
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Identify the nouns, verbs and adverbs in the following sentence: As he walked away from Brookfield School, Mr Chipping thought fondly of his many years of service.
What are nouns: Brookfield School, Mr Chipping, years, service verbs: walked, thought adverbs: away, fondly
300
2BR02B – the title is a reference to which piece of literature? And the phone nr for?
What Hamlet and the Federal Bureau of Termination
300
What are the three most common words in the English language?
What are the, be and to
400
4. To what ancient genre of drama does Shakespeare’s Hamlet belong?
What is a tragedy
400
What are the past tense of the following verbs?: breed draw Ride slide wring
What are: bred drew rode slid wrung
400
4. Translate the following words into English and the correct spelling!: • At undskylde • Hun lider af angst • han har lungebetændelse • De er alle psykologer
What is to apologize she suffers from anxiety he suffers from pneumonia they are all psychologists
400
An inference about the future (or some hypothetical situation) based on known facts and observations.
What is extrapolation?
400
Define what is a homophone and give an example?
What are words that sound the same but are spelled differently - such as their - there and witch - which
500
Identify figures of speech (metaphor, simile, alliteration, (hyperbole= exaggeration)) used in the following piece of text: Uriah, who was a bright spark, had his head buried in a book when we bumped into him in the park. “Agnes!” he simpered. “How impossibly beautiful you look today. It makes my life worth living to see you arrayed like a princess in all your seductive silks and satins.”” Excuse Uriah,” I whispered to David, “He’s a bit of a fruitcake.”
What is a metaphor: a bright spark a simile: arrayed like a princess alliteration: seductive silks and satins hyperbole: It makes my life worth living to see you..
500
Translate the following two English sayings into similar sayings in Danish: • They buried the hatchet • He is no spring chicken
What is : De begravede stridsøksen Han er ingen vårhare
500
Match the classic couples from literature: Heathcliff Scarlett O’Hara Mr Darcy Daisy Buchanan Rhett Butler Juliet Romeo Elizabeth Bennett Jay Gatsby Catherine
Who are: Heathcliff and Catherine Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara Romeo and Juliet Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan
500
The statement that Chris McCandless writes in the margin of his book shortly before he dies?
What is: Happiness is only real when shared
500
The passive, the progressive tense, the present perfect and past perfect tense all have this in common?
What is the auxiliary verb to be?