VERBALS/CLAUSES
ERRORS
OBJECTIVE
BACKGROUND
QUOTATION ID
1000

The verbal and usage of the following sentence: What do you want to do tonight?

WHAT IS: to do - infinitive - DO?

1000

The correct punctuation of the following sentence: Cassio had Desdemona’s handkerchief this fact made Othello angry

WHAT IS:

Cassio had Desdemona’s handkerchief; this fact made Othello angry.

or

Cassio had Desdemona’s handkerchief. This fact made Othello angry.

1000

A speech given to list one's accomplishments to an audience.

What is a formal boast?

1000

The three social classes depicted by Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales (be specific).

What are the first estate - clergy, second estate - nobility, and third estate - peasants or commoners?

1000

Speaker, Work, Author of the following:

For when my outward action doth demonstrate

The native act and figure of my heart

In compliment extern, 'tis not long after

But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve

For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.


Who is Iago in Othello by William Shakespeare?

2000

The verbal and usage in the following sentence: I was thinking that there are plenty of good movies to watch over winter break. 

WHAT IS: to watch - infinitive - movies?

2000

Correction(s) of the following sentence: Don’t you wish you had as much money as me?

WHAT IS: Don’t you wish you had as much money as I?

2000

He is considered the father of English poetry.

Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?

2000

Old English for So One Must Do.

What is Swa Sceal Man Don?

2000

Speaker, Work, and Author of the following:

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

Who is Mr. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen?

3000

The clause and usage in the following sentence: I give whoever decided to cancel Arrested Development an emphatic thumbs down.

WHAT IS: whoever . . . Development  - IO?

3000

Correction (s) of the following sentence:

I don’t know who you think stole your money, but I can assure you that Tabitha didn’t do it.

WHAT IS:

I don’t know whoM you think stole your money, but I can assure you that Tabitha didn’t do it.

3000

The name of the place where the pilgrims tell their story.

What is the Tabitha Inn?


TABARD - spell correctly!

3000

The initial setting of Othello.

What is Venice, Italy?

3000

Subject described, work, and author of the following:

he had dwelt for a time

in misery among the banished monsters,

Cain’s clan, who the Creator had outlawed 

and condemned as outcasts.


Who is Grendel in Beowulf by??????????

4000

The clause and usage in the following sentence: We should not allow this hovercraft, which comes equipped with heat-seeking missiles, to fall into the wrong hands.

WHAT IS: which. . . missiles - hovercraft?

4000

Correction (s) of the following sentence:

Approaching the Danish coastline, the ground was thick with fog.

WHAT IS: As we approached the Danish coastline, the ground was thick with fog.?

4000

The first working title of Pride and Prejudice.

What is First Impressions?

4000

A term imposed on an inheritance stipulating who can and cannot receive any part of an estate.

What is an entailment?

4000

Speaker and Work of the following:

59.    And should I at your harmless innocence 

Melt, as I do, yet public reason just, 

Honor and empire with revenge enlarged

By conquering this new world, compels me now

To do what else though damned I should abhor.


Who is the Devil in Paradise Lost by John Milton?

5000

The clause and usage in the following sentence:   Yesterday after school, I tied Jimbo’s shoelaces together while my friends distracted him

WHAT IS: while. . him - tied?

5000

Correction(s) of the following sentence:

Mr. Carro has and always will dislike Bradford Cummins.

WHAT IS:

Mr. Carro always has and always will dislike Bradford Cummins.

5000

The term applied to the Elizabethan Age in England due to a flourishing of the arts during Elizabeth's reign.

What is a Renaissance?

5000

Three aspects of epic poetry.

What are elevate language, supernatural, larger than life hero. . . . etc. etc. . . ?

5000

Subject, Work, and Author of the following:

He generously imputed the whole to his mistaken pride, and confessed that he had before thought it beneath him to lay his private actions open to the world.

Who is Darcy in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen?