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VERBALS
VERB Mood/Voice
Ellipsis/Dash
ELA Terms
Root Word Rhyme Time
100
The sentence "Jumping out of an airplane is a dangerous activity" contains an example of this type of verbal.
What is gerund?
100
"He drove to the store" is an example of this type of verb mood.
What is indicative?
100
This is the reason that you would use a dash in a sentence.
What is to show an abrupt break in thought?
100
This is the difference between the mood and the tone in literature.
What is the mood is the feeling the reader gets when reading and tone is the speaker's attitude toward the subject?
100
This creature can only croak when it attempts to speak.
What is frog log?
200
In the sentence "Then I said to Harry 'Please use the potty if you want to go to Grandma's this weekend'" this is an example of an infinitive.
What is to go?
200
This would be how to say the following sentence in the active voice "The lions were freed from the zoo by a group of misguided animal activists"
What is "A group of misguided animal activists freed lions from the zoo?"
200
This would be the correct placement for dashes in the following sentence: "Barack Obama the first black President of the United States was elected in 2008."
What is after Obama and before was?
200
These are the three types of irony.
What are verbal, dramatic, and situational?
200
This is what you would take to get around a lake.
What is a peri ferry?
300
In the sentence "Stubbing his toe on the chair, the child could not stop himself from crying out in pain" this is the example of the participle phrase.
What is "stubbing his toe on the chair?"
300
This is how you would correct the shift in mood in the following sentence "Finish your essay and then you should place it on my desk."
What is "Finish your essay and then place it on my desk?"
300
This is what an ellipsis looks like.
What is three dots?
300
This is the difference between logos and pathos.
What is logos appeals to a reader's brain or logic and pathos appeals to a reader's heart/emotion?
300
This is what you would call a bad friend.
What is a mal pal?
400
In the sentence " Following directions is hard to do if you are a distracted child" contains these examples of a participle, infinitive, and gerund.
What is the participle is distracted, the gerund is following directions, and to do is the infinitive?
400
This is how you would correct the shift in verb voice in the following sentence "I searched the house for a pencil, but only pens were found."
What is "I searched the house for a pencil, but only found pens?"
400
This is why an author would use an ellipsis in a sentence.
What is to omit something from the sentence?
400
These are the five steps of the narrative arc.
What are exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution?
400
This is what you would call it if you turned and bumped into something.
What is a hurt vert?
500
The sentence "He jumped into the water in order to save the child from drowning" contains these two verbals.
What is an infinitive and gerund?
500
This how you would write the following sentence in the active voice "In a shocking move, a woman was arrested yesterday for running into the store while leaving her newborn baby alone in the car."
What is "In a shocking move, police arrested a woman yesterday for running into the store while leaving her newborn baby alone in the car?"
500
Rewrite the following sentence to omit the part of the sentence that would be enclosed by dashes:"There are many conspiracy theories though none are taken that seriously regarding the tragic events of September 11th."
What is "There are many conspiracy theories ... regarding the tragic events of September 11th?"
500
These are the three modes of writing.
What are narrative, expository, and persuasive?
500
This is what you would call someone who made many, many mistakes.
What is a poly folly?