English test Flashcards

Question

What does De:De mean?

Answer 1

I was exhausted: I haven't slept for more than two days. De:De is description:detail is a compound sentence in which 2 independent clauses are separated by a colon. The second adds further detail.

Answer 2

A sentence starts with a verb to give it more importance. The verb is always followed by a comma and then a name or personal pronoun (he, she, they, it) followed the rest of the sentence. Running, Sarah almost tripped over her feet.

Answer 3

They are outside:inside sentences. They are made up of two related sentences. The first sentence tells the reader a character's outward action and the second revels their true feelings.

Answer 4

Summarising a dramatic plot (key plots) at beginning or end of a story in groups of 3. The emphasis is on using a comma after each clause. E.g - If the alarm hadn't gone off, if the bus had been on time, if the road repairs had been completed, then his life would not have not have been destroyed.

Answer 5

Desperate, she screamed for help. Terrified, he froze instantly to the spot. Happily, she skipped along the gravely path. Emotion first followed by the actions that are caused by the emotion. Putting the word first gives more weight to the emotion. When teaching produce an A-Z list of emotions the children could use Afraid, Brave etc.

Answer 6

1. Snakes, WHICH scare me, are not always poisonous. 2. My pet dog, WHO only has three legs, loves to chase seagulls. 3. The deserted beach, WHERE the shipwreck was found, can only be reached by sea. Use commas to embed a clause in a sentence, add information that links with the sentence topic and start the clause with which, who or where.

Answer 7

1. He was a fast runner, fast because he needed to be. 2. It was a cold planet, cold due to the distance from the sun. Some adjectives used twice. The second adjective repeated straight after a comma.

Answer 8

Cold, dark, airlessness - which would kill the spaceman first? 3 negative adjectives followed by a dash then a question which relates to the 3 adjectives.

Answer 9

Cold, dark, airlessness - which would kill the spaceman first? 3 negative adjectives followed by a dash then a question which relates to the 3 adjectives.

Answer 10

She sang soulfully and emotionally. They laughed loudly and shrilly. He exercised vigorously and enthusiastically. Sentence must end on 2 adverbs which add detail to, and describe how the verb within the sentence is being carried out.

Answer 11

Would there ever be another opportunity like this one? What if you had all the money in the world? Why do zebras have stripes? Short sentence must start with 1 of the following w words: who? what? where? why? would? was? will? what if?

Answer 12

It was a dark, long, leafy lane. | A list sentence must have 3 or 4 adjectives before the noun use and between the final 2 adjectives.

Answer 13

Some people love football; others just can't stand it. Some days are full of enjoyment; others begin and end terribly. Some, other sentences are compound sentences which begin with the word some snd have a semi - colon to replace the word but.

Answer 14

NEITHER money NOR gifts could make him visit the haunted mansion again. It was BOTH cold AND unpleasant for him to work there. P.C paired conjunctions when some words need second word in order to make sense.

Answer 15

The more angry he became, the more he hammered his fist on the plate. More - emotion Comma More Hammered - action related to emotion Sentence type is particularly useful when developing character trait in a story. The first more should be followed by an emotive word and the second more should be followed by a related action.

Answer 16

Everything failed! The ship exploded! Rule 1-3 word sentences possibly with exclamation mark.

Answer 17

The wind stroked the space shuttle gently before lift off = caring normal was beaten by the hail = attacked/aggressive. A type of weather; wind, rain, sun, hail etc ...is given a human a mood.

Answer 18

Dancing in the studio, she watched in the mirror as a ghost appeared. Skipping along the street, he stopped abruptly when a car screeched past. Sentence must begin with a verb ending in "ing" followed by a location of the action.

Answer 19

Our "luxury" hotel turned out to be a farm outbuilding. With dawn breaking, the "beautiful view" which the brochure described, revealed itself to be a scrap - yard and a rubbish tip. The "tip our dream" was, in fact , our worst nightmare. Irony sentence deliberately overstates how good or bad something is. The overstated word is shown to be false through the remainder of the sentence which reveals the truth.

Answer 20

Imagine a place where the sun always shines, where wars never happen, where no - one ever dies: in the Andromeda 5 system, there is such a planet. Sentence begins with the word imagine. Then describe three parts of something. The first 2 parts are separated by commas. The third ends with a colon.