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Pronoun Antecedent Agreement
Adverbs\Adjectives
Using Modifiers
Who\Whom
Editing\Proofreading
100
Everyone, Nobody, Each, Every, Neither, and Either are all examples of....
What is singular indefinite pronouns
100
Adjectives modify?
What are nouns/pronouns
100
Why does it matter where a modifier is placed?
Because otherwise it can change the meaning of the sentence, or give an ambiguous meaning.
100
Which pronouns do you use to answer the question "who?" and "whom?"
What is he/she (who) and him/her (whom)
100
Fix: Susie my sister is the most happy girl Ive ever known.
Susie, my sister, is the happiest girl I've ever known.
200
Both and Several are examples of...
What is plural indefinite pronouns
200
Adverbs modify?
What are verbs, adverbs, and adjectives
200
Fix this sentence: I almost ate all my food.
What is I ate almost all my food.
200
Who\Whom is coming with you?
Who (he is)
200
Fix: The affect the medicine have over her is profound but she still take it anyways.
The effect the medicine has over her is profound, but she still takes it anyways.
300
When you see "ALL" and "SOME", you know you look to the what to determine whether it's singular or plural?
What is the object of the preposition (or the prep. phrase)
300
Identify the adverbs & adjectives in this sentence: She slowly and carefully poured the slimy liquid to the top of old, pink pitcher.
ADV: slowly, carefully ADJ: slimy, old, pink
300
Fix this sentence: She served sandwiches to the children on paper plates.
What is: She served the children sandwiches on paper plates.
300
From who\whom did you receive this gift?
Whom (from him)
300
Fix: She almost ate the hole bag of chips but she desided to let Joe her brother eat the rest.
She ate almost the whole bag of chips, but she decided to let Joe, her brother, eat the rest.
400
Both workers do (his\her, their) job.
What is THEIR
400
Adverbs tell you?
What is how, where, when, why, how much, to what degree...
400
Fix: She saw a puppy and a kitten on the way to the store.
What is: On the way to the store, she saw a puppy and a kitten.
400
I have several friends who/whom I wouldn't trade for anything.
Whom (wouldn't trade THEM)
400
A renaming of the noun, or an element that simply adds additional information to the noun is called AN...?
What is an appositive.
500
Neither Joey nor Mark can loan you (their, his) car.
What is HIS
500
Identify the adverbs: I frequently send students to detention; several students constantly talk and it is extremely frustrating.
Frequently, several, constantly, extremely
500
Fix: I placed the chair in the corner of the room that I had recently purchased.
What is I placed the chair that I had recently purchased in the corner of the room.
500
Whoever/Whomever lives here does not take care of the lawn.
Whoever. THEY don't.
500
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811. In 1851, she published a book called Uncle Toms Cabin. The book show the cruelty of slavery through the eyes of endividuals and familys. Many people say the book pushed our nation into the Civil war. According to legend, when president Abraham Lincoln meet Stowe he said, "so your the little woman who wrote the book that maid this great war.
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811. In 1851, she published a book called Uncle Tom's Cabin. The book showed or shows the cruelty of slavery through the eyes of individuals and families. Many people say the book pushed our nation into the Civil War. According to legend, when President Abraham Lincoln met Stowe he said, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war."