Identify all the nouns in this sentence. Sandra Cisneros was born on December 20, 1954, in Chicago, Illinois.
Sandra Cisneros, December, Chicago, Illinois
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Chicago/ in/in/I/born/1954/was
I was born in Chicago in 1954.
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Sandra Cisneros (is, am, are) a Mexican-American writer. Her father is Mexican and her mother is Chicana.
is
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In addition to writing, Cisneros (has, have) taught at the Latino Youth Alternative High School in Chicago.
has
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Cisneros (write) a collection of sixty poems, each of which resemble a short story.
wrote
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Identify all the pronouns in this sentence. Her novel "The House on Mango Street," about a young Latina woman coming of age in Chicago, has sold more than two million copies.
her
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than/years/Sandra/for/has/writing/been/more/45/
Sandra has been writing for more than 45 years.
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"The House on Mango Street" and "Caramelo" (is, am, are) two of her books.
are
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In the book, "My Wicked, Wicked Ways" (1987), this female author (write, writes) about her native Chicago.
writes
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"I'm trying to write the stories that haven't been written," Cisneros (tell) Jim Sagel of Publishers Weekly.
told
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Identify the verbs in this sentence. One of seven children and the only daughter, she has written extensively about the Latina experience in the United States.
has written
300
University of Iowa/In 1976/was admitted/Writers' Workshop/Cisneros/to the/prestigious/at the
In 1976, Cisneros was admitted to the prestigious Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.
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This writer (is, am, are) a graduate from Loyola University in 1976.
is
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Her readers (learn, learns) about her life experiences through the literary pieces she has written.
learn
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Cisneros's parents (be) firm believers in education, knowing that it was the only way their children could break the bonds of poverty.
were
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Identify the adjectives in this sentence. I live with many creatures, little and large, in Mexico.
many, little, large
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six brothers/to/Cisneros/as/only/up/sister/grew/the/
Cisneros grew up as the only sister to six brothers.
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California State University, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Irvine, Univerity of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (is, am, are) institutions where Cisneros has been a guest professor.
are
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"The New York Times" (publish, publishs, publishes) creative works by many authors and Cisneros is one of them.
publishes
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After earning her master's degree in 1978, Cisneros (begin) to submit her poems to literary journals and found some success.
began
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Identify the adverbs in this sentence. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages and published internationally.
internationally
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Chicago/In 1987/connection to/Cisneros/a strong sense of/would tell/felt/an interviewer in Texas/that she/had never
In 1987, Cisneros would tell an interviewer in Texas that she had never felt a strong sense of connection to Chicago.
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Edwidge Danticat, a Haitian-American novelist, once said: "I (is,am,are) a reader, so joyful that Sandra Cisnesos (is,am,are) a writer, and even more exhilarated that she (is,am,are) part of our world."
am, is, is
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The author's biography (tell, tells) how she and her family frequently moved between the United States and Mexico because of her father's homesickness for his native country and his devotion to his mother who lived there.
tells
500
Cisneros (break) new ground by becoming the first Chicana author to receive the backing of a major publishing house when Random House published Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories in 1991.