Chapter 2
What is this sentence?
At the end of the race, a checkered flag.
Sentence fragment
What is the adverb clause in this sentence?
when people love music, they carry it with them
when people love music
Is the underlined portion a simple subject, complete subject, or complete predicate
In 1722, Dutch colonizers arrived on the island, bringing diseases
Complete subject
What type of noun is this?
let the jury take a lunch break
Collective
What tense is this verb?
carved
Simple past
What adds colorful language to this sentence? (Choose one)
the water is (motionless and serene, still and nice)
motionless and serene
What is the compound verb?
people brought and carried portable cassette players in the late 1970s
Brought, carried
What is the compound verb?
Shelly had a dream about an old doctor named Frankenstein and wrote a story about it
Had and wrote
What type of pronoun is “that”?
Demostrarive
Action verb, linking verb, or helping verb
must
Helping verb
Simile, metaphor, or personification
A sentence without adjectives is like a pizza without toppings
Simile
What is the prepositional phrase?
later, CD players became popular with both teens and adults
With both teens and adults
What is the indirect object!
The radio style programs covered topics in social studies and offered the entire school music, interviews, and news
School
Choose the right one
Every year at summer camp, the (thirteen year-olds, thirteen-year-olds) participate in the archery competition
Thirteen year-olds
What tense is this?
will have risen
Future perfect
Simile, metaphor, or personification
the piano was my anchor; if I let go of it, I feared that I might drift away
Metaphor
what is the independent clause?
You can now buy tiny MP3 players that you can store thousands of songs
You can now buy tiny MP3 players
What is the simple predicate?
the population dwindled quickly
Dwindled
What type of pronoun is this?
Give (yourself) a Pat on the back
Reflexive
Is this sentence active or passive voice
It is thought by many experts that more species are still to be discovered
Passive
What make the sentence parallel? (Choose one)
Cheetahs run smoothly and (really fast, swiftly) when they hunt
Swiftly
What is the compound subject?
Improvements and advancements in technology affects how people listen to music
Improvements and advancements
What is the simple subject?
here is a picture of Easter Island
Picture
What type of pronoun is this
(who) do you think you are?
Interrogative
Is this a gerund, participle, or infinitive phrase
To travel from here to Nunavut
Infinitive phrase