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Literary Terms
Irregular Verbs
Verb Tenses
Transitive/Intransitive Verbs
Potpourri
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The struggle between two opposing forces
What is conflict?
100
An irregular verb is defined as one that can...
What is ... not be changed to the past tense by adding a "d" or "ed"
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A verb tense tells ________ about a verb
What is when the action took place?
100
A transitive verb is one that ...
What is has a direct object?
100
The following verb is in what tense - "will go"
What is simple future
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The writer's manner of writing
What is style?
200
Select the correct verb for the following sentence: "The Hopi of Arizona have long (grew, grown) corn and lived in pueblos."
What is "grown"
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The three simple tenses
What are past, present and future
200
To find the direct object of a verb one must...
What is identify the verb and ask "whom" or "what" receives the action of the verb?
200
True or false...a sentence can have an indirect object whether there is a direct object or not
What is false
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The sequence of events in a story
What is plot?
300
Select the correct verbs for the following sentence... "When the day had (began, begun), they (ran, run) to the store to (buy, bought) apples."
What are "begun," ran," "buy"
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The four principal parts of a verb - used to form verb tenses
What are base (or present), present participle, past and past participle?
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An indirect object is in what position in a sentence
What is before the direct object
300
Identify the adverb in the following sentence..."The red car moved quite quickly down the street."
What are "quite" and "quickly"
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The giving of human characteristics or qualities to non-human objects
What is personification?
400
True or False...An irregular verb must have a helping verb in order to be grammatically correct
What is true
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The tense that is formed using the helping verb "have," the helping verb "be," and the present participle
What is perfect progressive?
400
True or false...some verbs (such as "look") can be either transitive or intransitive
What is true
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What the first and last paragraphs of an essay are called
What are the introduction and a conclusion
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Background information at the beginning of the story about setting and characters
What is exposition?
500
True or false... "WE LOVE GRAMMAR!!!"
What is "TRUE!!!"
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The verb tense that is formed using a form of the helping verb "have" and past participle
What is perfect tense?
500
To find an indirect object one must...
What is identify the verb and ask "to whom," "to what," "for whom," or "for what" the action was done?
500
The following verb is in what tense... "will have been studying"
What is future perfect progressive