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Verb Tenses
History of English
Adverb Clauses
Past Participles
English Conquerors
100
With the exception of its future tense, these verb tenses do not require a helping verb.
What are "simple tenses"?
100

From the Old Norse word, "vindauga," it is what the eyes are to the soul.

What is "window?"

100

It is the kind of word that begins an adverb clause.

What is the "subordinating conjunction"?

100

This the definition of a dangling participle.

What is a modifier that doesn't clearly modify a noun or pronoun?

100

Made from the pig, these breakfast words were French first.

What are "sausage" and "bacon"?

200
It is the verb tense used to refer to the movement of future actions.
What future continuous?
200

We adopted the Old Norse word, "skill," but we already had this word.

What is "craft"?

200
It is the term for any group of words that has a subject and a predicate.
What is a "clause"?
200

It is the definition of a participle phrase.

What is "a participle and any of its complements and modifiers"?

200

We gained many words from the French to denote imprisonment, but this word means the opposite.

What is "liberty"?

300
It is the helping verb used to form the continuous tenses.
What is "be"?
300

The English language was threatened by these two conquerors.

What are the Vikings and the Normans (Old Norse and Old French)?

300

These are the adverb questions.

What is "when, where, why, and how"?

300

It is the participle adjective in this sentence: Singing birds live in those trees.

What is "singing"?

300

It is another name for the Norseman who conquered the English.

Who are "Danes"?

400
They are the helping verbs required to form the future perfect tense.
What are "will and have"?
400
After the works of Bead but before those Chaucer, it is the first epic poem in the English language.

What is "Beowulf"?

400
It's a subordinating conjunction that answers the question "where?"
What is "wherever"?
400

It is the participle in this sentence: The unexamined life is a waste. 

What "waste"?

400

Before Christianity would impose the Roman alphabet on the English language, Old English used these letters.

What are "runes"?/ What is the runic alphabet?

500
It is the verb tense (not the voice) used in the following sentence: The pizza will have been being eaten.
What is the future perfect continuous?
500

The Great, he was the ruler who was credited with saving the English language.

Who was King Alfred?

500
It is one of the other two names for an adverb clause.
What is "subordinating or dependent clause"?
500

It is the participle in this sentence: Reasoning requires spoken words.

What is "spoken"?

500

This common English word was denoted by the suffixes "-ham" in Old English and "-by" in Old Norse.

What is "farm"?