Chapter 2: Effective Sentences and Word Choice
What kind of figurative language is being used?
Anita’s heart leaped with joy every time she thought about the award ceremony.
Personification
What is an appositive?
A noun or pronouns that explains or identifies another nouns or pronoun
What is the end punctuation for an imperative sentence?
A period.
What is a concrete noun?
A noun that describes things that you can see, smell, touch, taste, and hear
What kind of verb is in this sentence?
The dog appears to be asleep.
Linking verb
What is wrong with this sentence?
He spent hours writing everyday, he wrote in a small hut in his garden.
It is a run-on sentence
What are all of the coordinating conjunctions? (F.A.N.B.O.Y.S)
For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
Is the underlined part the simple subject, complete, subject, simple predicate, or complete predicate?
In 1722, Dutch colonizers arrived on the island, bringing diseases.
Complete subject
What type of pronoun is the underlined word?
That was the turning point.
Demonstrative pronoun
What kind of a participle is in this sentence?
The yawning cab driver opened the door.
Present participle
What is the best word choice?
1. Object
2. Hammer
3. Tool
2. Hammer
What kind of phrase is the underlined part?
Clara Barton, a dedicated humanitarian, treated thousands of American soldiers.
Appositive phrase
What are the correlative conjunctions?
Both, and, either, or, neither, nor
What kind of a pronoun is himself?
Reflexive pronoun
What is consonance in a poem?
It is the recurrence of similar sounds in close proximity
What is wrong with this sentence?
The man was yelling obnoxiously, angrily, and very loud.
It is not in parallel structure
What kind of clause is the underlined part?
When people love music, they carry it with them.
Adverb clause
Is the underlined part a predicate nominative or predicate adjective?
Andres is an Olympic medalist.
Predicate nominative
How is this compound noun suppose to be written?
Fifteen year old
Fifteen-year-old
Turn the underlined verb into passive voice.
Not a single community serves a road or train service.
Is served by
What is denotation and connotation?
Denotation: a word’s literal definition
Connotation: what is suggests beyond its dictionary meaning
What type of sentence is this? (Simple, compound, complex, or compound- complex)
The Atacama Desert, which is in Chile, is one of the driest areas on the earth, but dangerous flash floods do occur there.
Compound- complex
What is the direct and indirect object in this sentence?
Veterans offered new volunteers useful advice.
Indirect object: volunteers
Direct object: advice
Which should be used in this sentence? (Who or whom)
The singer we met was generous.
Whom
What type of phrase is the underlined part?
After that, the two calmly finished painting the scene.
Gerund phrase