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Intro to Lit (S1) Flashcards

1
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What type of sentence gives a command?

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Imperative

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What type of sentence is a statement?

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Declarative

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What type of sentence asks a question?

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Interrogative

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What type of sentence shows strong emotion?

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Exclamatory

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Which word is the subject: My eight grade teacher didn’t teach us sentences.

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teacher

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What is the verb: My sister and I are going to a Christmas party tomorrow.

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are

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What are the verbs: I can run or hide from scary people.

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run and hide

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Which sentence structure fits the sentence: The president of Israel functions as the head of state.

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Subject-Action Verb

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Which sentence structure fits the sentence: The president serves a five-year term

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Subject-Action Verb-Direct Object

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What makes a clause dependent?

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A subordinating conjunction at the beginning

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What is a noun?

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A person, place, thing, or idea

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Which of the following is a proper noun?
- Clam Chowder
- dog
- hatred
- Governor Reynolds

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Governor Reynolds

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Which of the following is a plural noun
- cat
- geese
- class
- President Trump

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Geese

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Which of the following is a singular possessive noun?
- Classes’
- Kaitlyn’s
- Stories’
- Geese

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Kaitlyn’s

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15
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Make this possessive: the parents of Hannah

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Hannah’s parents

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What is a collective noun?

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A noun the includes many things

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What is the function of the word “teacher” in this sentence: Mr Nikkel is a great teacher.

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Predicate Noun

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What is a compound noun?

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A noun that is 2 words put together

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What is the function of the word “Mr Nikkel” in this sentence: Mr Nikkel is a great teacher.

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Subject

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What is the function of the word “test” in this sentence: The final, the hardest test ever, is tomorrow.

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Appositive

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What is the function of the word “staff” in this sentence: The memo gave our staff a reason to celebrate.

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Indirect Object

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What is the function of the word “reason” in this sentence: The memo gave our staff a reason to celebrate.

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Direct Object

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What is the function of the word “John” in this sentence: John, please pay attention!

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Noun of direct address

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What is an antecedent?

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A word that is replaced by a pronoun

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What is the difference between nouns and pronouns?

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Nouns are people, places, things, or ideas while pronouns replace nouns.

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What is the function of the word “ours” in this sentence: I am so glad that the flag is ours.

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Predicate Adjective

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22
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What part of speech besides nouns can be subjects?

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Pronouns

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Independent, Dependent, or a Phrase: Since we started it yesterday

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Dependent

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Independent, Dependent, or a Phrase: I will start Health next semester.

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Independent

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What is the sentence pattern of the following sentence: My parents gave my brother a new car

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Subject-Action Verb-Indirect Object-Direct Object

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What is the sentence pattern of the following sentence: The class is excited to visit the Lincoln Memorial.

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Subject-Linking Verb-Predicate Adjective

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27
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What is the sentence pattern of the following sentence: My father has been a marathon runner for many years.

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Subject-Linking Verb-Predicate Noun

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28
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What is the sentence pattern of the following sentence: I ran into the wall.

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Subject-Action Verb

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29
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What is the sentence pattern of the following sentence: Don’t underestimate me.

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Subject-Action Verb-Direct Object

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30
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What is the sentence pattern of the following sentence: To prove to myself that I could do it, I committed to eating healthy.

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Subject-Action Verb

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31
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What type of verb is being used in the sentence: Compared to other storms, tornadoes are particularly destructive.

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Linking

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32
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What type of verb is being used in the sentence: The United States is the most common location of tornadoes in the world.

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Linking

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33
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What type of verb is being used in the sentence: This change vies a normal thunderstorm a possibly dangerous aspect.

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Action

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34
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What type of verb is being used in the sentence: The strongest tornado-producing thunderstorms are supercells.

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Linking

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35
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What type of verb is being used in the sentence: Before the formation of a tornado, an upper-level disturbance occurs above the earth’s surface.

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Action

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36
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What tense is the verb in the sentence: God will teach us about His power in His Word.

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Future

37
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What tense is the verb in the sentence: God created the world in six days.

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Past

38
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What tense is the verb in the sentence: God created the world in six days.

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Present

39
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What tense is the verb in the sentence: According to Matthew, Jesus will come like lightning.

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Future

40
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What tense is the verb in the sentence: The psalms also speak of lightning.

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Present

41
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What tense is the verb in the sentence: Some of these forms have been a curiosity for scientific study.

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Present Perfect

42
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What tense is the verb in the sentence: By the end of this chapter, you will have learned more about lightning.

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Future Perfect

43
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What tense is the verb in the sentence: Before the advent of scientific study, the Greeks and Romans had thought that lightning was a weapon of the gods.

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Past Perfect

44
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What tense is the verb in the sentence: Before the end of the next thunderstorm, lightning will probably have struck somewhere.

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Future Perfect

45
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What tense is the verb in the sentence: How have people learned about lightning?

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Present Perfect

46
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What tense is the capitalized verb in the sentence: Our class HAS BEEN PLANNING the trip for several months?

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Present Perfect Progressive

47
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What tense is the capitalized verb in the sentence: At the end of the semester, my science class WILL HAVE BEEN STUDYING weather for four weeks?

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Future Perfect Progressive

48
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What tense is the capitalized verb in the sentence: Yesterday before the end of class, we WERE LOOKING at weather safety.

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Past Progressive

49
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What tense is the capitalized verb in the sentence: Yesterday before the end of class, we WERE LOOKING at weather safety.

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Future Progressive

50
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What does an adjective modify?

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Nouns and pronouns

51
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What does an adverb modify?

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Verbs, other adverbs, and adjectives

52
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Which word is an adjective?
Aubrey’s yellow hat jumped.

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yellow

53
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Which word is an adjective?
Mr Morton’s strong hands helped to open the jar.

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strong

54
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Which word is an adjective?
The chaotic badger tore through the trash

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chaotic

55
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Which word is an adverb?
The team successfully won the game

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successfully

56
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Which word is an adverb?
I will not be attending school next week

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not

57
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Which word does the adjective MODIFY? “Micro-organisms are certainly interesting.”

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Micro-organisms

58
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Which word does the adjective MODIFY? “I’m not considering a biological job though.”

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job

59
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Which word does the adjective MODIFY? “Your cowardly partner can leave this at once!”

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partner

60
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“She isn’t afraid of (anything, nothing).”

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anything

61
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“I (am, are) not interested in whatever you are selling.”

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am

62
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“Engineers have (great, greatly) reduced the hazards of living in space.”

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greatly

63
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“Of all the planets, Pluto was the (most difficult, more difficult) to find.”

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most difficult

64
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“Comparing Saturn and Venus, we find that Venus is the (brighter, brightest) planet.”

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brighter

65
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Make this possessive: the successes of our team

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team’s successes

66
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What is a possessive noun?

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A noun that shows possession

67
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What is a plural noun?

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A noun naming several things

68
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What is a proper noun?

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A specific noun

69
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Independent, dependent, or phrase: Because we are all human.

A

Dependent

70
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Independent, dependent, or phrase: having given all to the collective purpose

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Phrase

71
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What type of verb is capitalized in the sentence: My friends and I ARE helping with the relief effort.

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Helping

72
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What type of verb is capitalized in the sentence: When the tornado came through here and it WAS destroying homes, it didn’t destroy lives.

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Helping

73
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What type of verb is capitalized in the sentence: My parents WERE preparing the house for a week before the hurricane came.

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Helping

74
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What type of verb is capitalized in the sentence: My experience with the storm WAS brief.

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Linking

75
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What type of verb is capitalized in the sentence: By the time it reached us, it WASN’T threatening.

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Linking

76
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Which word does the adjective MODIFY? “Have you seen my backpack anywhere?”

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backpack

77
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Which word does the adjective MODIFY? “The show gave us something to think about.”

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show

78
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Which word does the adverb MODIFY? “Partners on projects often mistrust one another.”

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mistrust

79
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Which word does the adverb MODIFY? “I really need to go. I am late for a meeting.”

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need

80
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Which word does the adverb MODIFY? “Could quickly give me an idea of what if happening?”

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give

81
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Which word does the adjective MODIFY? “Sure, everyone has made mistakes in their past.”

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past

82
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Which word does the adverb MODIFY? “I am not taking requests right now.”

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taking

83
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Which word is the subject: Since the beginning of the year, my teacher and my classmates have all decided to study hard.

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teachers, classmates

84
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What is the verb: For the last eighteen days, I have been training for a marathon.

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training

85
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Which sentence structure fits the sentence: The struggle and survival of soldiers in combat has been documented throughout history.

A

Subject-Action Verb

86
Q

Which of the following is a singular possessive pronoun?
- I
- My
- Their
- Our

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my

87
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Which of the following is a 3rd person pronoun?
- Me
- He
- You
- Your

A

He

88
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Independent, dependent, or phrase: Give me one good reason to listen

A

Independent

89
Q

Independent, Dependent, or Phrase: The wonderful world of Mr. Mago and his magical friends

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Phrase

90
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Independent, Dependent, or Phrase: running through fields of opportunity and dreams

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Phrase

91
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Independent, Dependent, or Phrase: Since we are sharing anyway

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Dependent

92
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Active or Passive: The drill sergeant yelled loudly in my face.

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Active

93
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Active or Passive: The fire cascaded down the mountain in the California valley.

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Active

94
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Active or Passive: The trees were consumed by the blaze in a matter of hours.

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Passive

95
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Active or Passive: My hometown was ravaged by wildfires years ago.

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Passive

96
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Active or Passive: My dad packed all our belongings in the dead of night.

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Active

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