Grammar Examples
I wanted to graduate.
What is an infinitive phrase?
This is the part of the plot diagram that describes Act 3.
What is the climax?
This shows Paris is oblivious to the happenings between Romeo and Juliet.
What is Paris' expressing his wish to marry Juliet?
This is the dream Romeo had before finding Juliet.
What is Juliet kissing his dead body?
Grading papers, I listened to the rain.
What is a participial phrase?
These are the people who know about Romeo and Juliet's relationship for the majority of the play.
Who are Romeo, Juliet, the nurse, and Friar Laurence?
What is take a sleeping potion?
This is the reason Lady Montague dies.
What is the effect of her grief over Romeo's banishment?
Who is the CEO of Google?
What is a prepositional phrase?
This happens because Romeo would not stand up for himself with Tybalt.
Why does Mercutio fight Tybalt?
This is what Juliet would rather do than marry Paris.
What is jump from a castle wall, be with robbers, be with snakes, or be attacked by bears?
This is what Romeo sells the apothecary.
What is greed?
Before they took the final exam, the students studied.
What is a complex sentence?
This causes Juliet to want to confide in the friar.
This is Friar Laurence's wish that comes true.
What is peace in the town between the families?
She drove to South Dakota because there was a graduation ceremony, and she visited her grandparents' graves.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
This causes Romeo and Juliet to first wish for death.
What is Romeo's banishment?
This is the reason Capulet moves up the date of the wedding.
What is Juliet's confession of being an ungrateful daughter?
These are two of the reasons Romeo and Juliet is labeled a tragedy.
What is it ends unhappily, is not about a recent king, has an internal conflict about personal wishes, has lots of action, has comic relief, has a tragic flaw in the hero, and looks at the effects of sin.