Grammar
Name the action verb in the following sentence:
A small earthquake shook the area.
What is shook?
This word contains a Latin root meaning place.
Is it local or block?
What is local?
This word means races involving teams.
What is relays?
In order to soar like a bird, you need to do this.
What is jump high?
This is the reason Alice Coachman didn't compete in the 1944 Olympics.
What is "They were canceled."?
Identify the state-of-being verb in the following sentence:
Our boat is beside the dock near the end.
What is "is"?
Which word contains the Latin root meaning bend?
Is it fleet or reflect?
What is reflect?
The cost of attending a college or other school is called?
What is tuition?
Looking back means this.
What is thinking about the past?
True or False:
This selection is mostly about an athlete who overcame obstacles to win a gold medal.
What is true?
Name the verb phrase in the following sentence:
The workers will repair the broken water pipe today.
What is "will repair"?
Which part means circle?
motorcyclist
What is cycl?
What does the word athletics mean?
What is sports?
If you are top-ranked, you are this.
What is very good?
What was the author's purpose for writing "Queen of the Track"?
What is to inform?
Is the following active or passive voice?
The carpenter cut the board into thin strips.
active voice
Which part means sound?
phonograph
What is phon?
Keeping people apart because of their race is called this.
What is segregation?
If someone stated that weather pricked her like pins, what are they referring to?
What is made her so cold it hurt?
True or False:
Birds were at the opening ceremony because they fled the war.
What is false?
They were part of the opening ceremony.
Is the following active or passive voice?
The garden was surrounded by a fence.
passive voice
Which word is not related to astonishing?
miracle, unexplained, normal
What is normal?
What does it mean to clear an obstacle?
What is to overcome it?
What does the expression "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair." mean?
What is "Life has been hard!"?
Why didn't Alice keep in touch with her family when she was in college?
What is because none of them had enough money?