Chapter 2
Choose the best answer that fits this sentence the best
Martial-arts-inspirednexercisenclasses offer a weird option for students.
A.)a weird
B.) a freaky
C.) an unusual
D.) a bizarre
C.) an unusual
Identify the compound subject in this sentence
Improvements and advancements in technology affect how people listen to music.
Improvements and advancements
What type of sentence is this
Give my love and kisses to the children.
A.) declarative sentence
B.) exclamatory sentence
C.) inverted sentence
D.) imperative sentence
Imperative
Identify the type of the underlined pronoun or pronouns.
Who do you think you are?
A.) Intense
B.) Interrogative
C.) Reflexive
B.) Interrogative
What is the underlined word?
The second largest is our neighbor to the north, Canada.
A.) linking verb
B.) participle
C.) regular verb
D.) verb phrase
A.) linking verb
Choose the choice that adds colorful language to the sentence
My brother would (come home tired, be too tired to speak) after working in the hot sun all day.
Be too tired to speak
What type of sentence is this?
In about 390 B.C., they successfully sacked Rome.
A.) simple sentence
B.) compound sentence
C.) complex sentence
D.) compound- complex sentence
A.) simple sentence
What part of the sentence is stuck
Just eighty-five miles from their destination, their ship Endurance became stuck in the ice.
A.) predicate nominative
B.) predicate adjective
C.) understood subjectD.) direct object
Choose the correct noun in parentheses
(Crowd, Crowds) do fellow campers come to watch the show.
Crowds
Identify if the verb is a linking verb, a helping verb, or an action verb
In my dream, I must carefully but swiftly descend
Helping verb
Are these sentences a sentence fragment, a run on, or correct
However, he hid his journal in a unusual place. In a tin box, tied to the top of a tree.
Sentence fragment
What is this underlined part an example of?
From 2000 to 1000 B.C., the Celts occupied a large part of Europe.
Prepositional phrase
Identify if the underlined part is a complete predicate, simple subject, complete subject, or simple predicate
Has your class studied Easter Island?
Complete subject
Identify the type of noun or pronoun underlined in the sentence
A decision was forthcoming.
A.) abstract noun
B.) regular noun
C.) personal pronoun
A.) abstract noun
What is the past tense of lie?
Lay
Identify if this sentence is a simile, personification, or a metaphor
To Sea, the tapping of Mr. Solomon’s pencil against the table sounded like a full percussion ensemble.
Simile
What kind of subordinate clause us this an example of?
When they were not at war, most Celtic families lived on small farms.
A.) adjective clause
B.) adverb clause
C.) noun clause
D.) sentence fragment
B.) adverb clause
What type of sentence is this
There was public excitement over the expedition from the start.
A.) exclamatory sentence
B.) imperative sentence
C.) inverted sentence
D.) interrogative sentence
C.) inverted sentence
What pronoun correctly refers to the underlined antecedent
Whether male or female, each firefighter had ____ own job to do on the truck
His or her
Which replacement would change this verb to passive voic?
Not a single community, including the capital, serves a road or train service.
A.) NO CHANGE
B.) is served by
C.) by serving
D.) to serve
B.) is served by
Identify if this sentence is a simile, personification, or a metaphor
The piano was my anchor; if I let go of it, I feared that I might drift away.
Metaphor
Change the sentence to have a relative pronoun
The parade went down Montrose Avenue. It took almost two hours
The parade went down Montrose Avenue which took almost two hours.
Identify all of the compound subjects
In 1974 Mel Brooks comedy film Young Frankenstein, Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr, and Clovis Leachman starred.
Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr, and Clovis Leachman
Which of these words in this sentence is an abstract noun?
One event during colonial times — the Boston Tea Party— led the colonies to support each other instead of Britain
A.) One
B.) during
C.) support
D.) Tea
E.) times
E.) times
Which is the correct tense to use instead of the underlined verb?
Most of Nunavut’s citizens are becoming native Inuit people
A.) past
B.) future perfect
C.) present participle
D.) present
D.) present