Infinitives
What is the base form of a verb, often preceded by "to"?
Answer: What is an infinitive?
Name the sentence structure: "The dog barked loudly."
Answer: What is a simple sentence?
What does an appositive do?
Answer: What is renames or clarifies a noun?
What do relative clauses begin with?
Answer: What are relative pronouns (who, whom, whose, which, that)?
What is the central theme of "The Cost of Survival"?
Answer: What is questioning whether survival is worth any cost?
Identify the infinitive in this sentence: "She loves to read mystery novels."
Answer: What is "to read"?
What coordinating conjunctions are used in compound sentences?
Answer: What are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so?
Identify the appositive in this sentence: "My friend, a talented musician, plays the piano beautifully."
Answer: What is "a talented musician"?
Identify the relative clause: "The book that she borrowed was interesting."
(Double points)
Answer: What is "that she borrowed"?
Name the narrator’s childhood friend in The Seventh Man.
Answer: Who is K.?
True or False: An infinitive clause has its own subject.
Answer: What is true?
Identify the structure: "Although the storm was strong, we stayed indoors, and we played games."
Answer: What is a compound-complex sentence?
Write a sentence with an appositive.
Double points
Answer: Student answer will vary
What two parts does an infinitive clause contain?
Answer: What are a subject and an infinitive?
How does guilt influence the narrator in The Seventh Man?
Answer: What is making him avoid the ocean and feel haunted by his friend’s death?
Write a sentence using an infinitive phrase.
Answer: Answers will vary
Example: "He decided to study for the test."
Write a complex sentence.
Answer: (Students' answers will vary) Example: "Since it was raining, we decided to stay home."
True or False: Commas are always used with appositives and have a verb
Answer: What is false?
Identify the infinitive clause in this sentence: "For her to pass the exam requires hard work."
Answer: What is "For her to pass the exam"?
Write a sentence inspired by The Seventh Man that includes an infinitive clause.
Answer: (Answers will vary)
Example: "For him to return to the ocean took great courage."
Bonus
500
Identify the independent clause and the dependent clause:
"When the bell rings, the students will leave."
Answer: Independent: "The students will leave."
Dependent: "When the bell rings."
Revise this sentence to include an appositive: "The artist painted a masterpiece."
Answer: "The artist, a visionary painter, painted a masterpiece."
Write a sentence containing both a relative clause and an infinitive clause.
Answer:Answer will vary
Example: "The book that he wanted for her to read was unavailable at the library."
Identify a symbol in The Seventh Man and its significance.
Answer: What is the wave, representing fear and guilt?