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How would you diagram the sentence; Football, called soccer in America, is one of the most popular international sports; it is
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Patty and Joel wanted their parents to take them to the fair, so they cleaned their rooms and did all their chores first thing
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Patty and Joel wanted their parents to take them to the fair, so they cleaned their rooms and did all their chores first thing
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Patty and Joel wanted their parents to take them to the fair, so they cleaned their rooms and did all their chores first thing
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Patty and Joel wanted their parents to take them to the fair, so they cleaned their rooms and did all their chores first thing
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is the sentence narrative, exposition, description, or persuasive?
I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us
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is the sentence narrative, exposition, description, or persuasive?
Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic
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is the sentence narrative, exposition, description, or persuasive? They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so
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is the sentence narrative, exposition, description, or persuasive?
The fool who has no sense to discriminate between what is good
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Christians gathered to pray that God would intervene and heal the man who had been ill for many weeks
Which group of words should
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Christians gathered to pray that God would intervene and heal the man who had been ill for many weeks
Which term correctly
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You may fish at the pond on Saturday morning, William
Which group of words should be added to make the group of words
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You may fish at the pond on Saturday morning, William
What type of end mark should be used for this group of words?
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identify the sentence as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?
Destiny and Natalie, my younger sisters, surprised me by
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Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?
Destiny and Natalie, my younger sisters, surprised me by baking a
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Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?
Cameron carefully prepared the components of his STEM experiment
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Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?
When we consider the greatness of God, all our challenges are put
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Identify the clause "that you had yesterday" as a noun, adjective, or adverb.
I hope your foot was not broken from the fall that
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Identify the clause "If we confess our sins to God" as a noun, adjective, or adverb.
If we confess our sins to God, He will
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Identify the clause "That you were the first one to cross the finish line" as a noun, adjective, or adverb.
That you were the
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identify if "trying new recipes" is a prepositional phrase, participial phrase, or infinitive phrase. Does the phrase function
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identify "trying new recipes" as a prepositional phrase, participial phrase, or infinitive phrase. Does the phrase function as a
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identify "jumping away quickly" as a prepositional phrase, participial phrase, or infinitive phrase. Does the phrase function as
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identify "to be included" as a prepositional phrase, participial phrase, or infinitive phrase. Does the phrase function as a
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identify "to the beach" as a prepositional phrase, participial phrase, or infinitive phrase. Does the phrase function as a noun,
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identify "to the beach" as a prepositional phrase, participial phrase, or infinitive phrase. Does the phrase function as a noun,
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identify the verb tense of "to the beach" in the following sentence
She had read the book before. The road to the beach is always
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identify the verb tense of "had read" in the following sentence
She had read the book before.
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identify the verb tense of "is giving" in the following sentence
Mrs. Nichols is giving piano lessons after school.
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identify the verb tense of "will have played" in the following sentence. I will have played on the team four years by the time I
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is "will have played" transitive or intransitive and which voice is being used; passive, active, or neither?
I will have played
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is "was" "dropped" transitive or intransitive and which voice is being used; passive, active, or neither?
The phone was
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Is "was" "chopped" "piled" transitive or intransitive and which voice is being used; passive, active, or neither?
The firewood
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Is "made" transitive or intransitive and which voice is being used; passive, active, or neither?
Grandma and Cassandra made
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Is "went" transitive or intransitive and which voice is being used; passive, active, or NA?
Kelly went to Iowa to visit her
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identify "himself" as a noun, verb, pronoun, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, or interjection?
Jason washed the car
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identify "specializes" as a noun, verb, pronoun, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, or interjection?
Located near the
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identify "because" as a noun, verb, pronoun, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, or interjection?
We were running late
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is "plants" a noun, verb, pronoun, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, or interjection?
Of the three plants, the rose
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Identify "plants" as noun, verb, pronoun, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, or interjection.
Of the three plants, the
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Identify "swiftly" as noun, verb, pronoun, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, or interjection. The cow and her calf
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Identify "her" as noun, verb, pronoun, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, or interjection. The cow and her calf were
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Identify "When" as noun, verb, pronoun, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, or interjection.
When Samuel was born,
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identify "halt" as a subject, verb, predicate nominative, direct object, indirect object, object of preposition, appositive,
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is "halt" a subject, verb, predicate nominative, direct object, indirect object, object of preposition, appositive, direct
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is "coach" a subject, verb, predicate nominative, direct object, indirect object, object of preposition, appositive, direct
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identify "coach" as a subject, verb, predicate nominative, direct object, indirect object, object of preposition, appositive,
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is "audience" a subject, verb, predicate nominative, direct object, indirect object, object of preposition, appositive, direct
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identify "audience" as a subject, verb, predicate nominative, direct object, indirect object, object of preposition, appositive,
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identify "in spite of" as a subject, verb, predicate nominative, direct object, indirect object, object of preposition,
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identify "his" as a subject, verb, predicate nominative, direct object, indirect object, object of preposition, appositive,
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Neither Courtney nor her sisters have packed (her/their) luggage.
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Miguel (implied, inferred) that he has almost completed his STEM project.
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The cat was (lying/laying) in the sunshine.
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Both Katie and Alyssa (sing/sings) better than I do.
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The neighbors objected to (Larry's/Larry) practicing his drums at night.
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The winning baseball team made the (least/fewest) errors
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Thirteen of (us/we) students volunteered to sing during chapel.
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I could hardly believe that Jim is taller than (I/me)
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True or false
Julia registered to take a cake decorating class during the summer. The verb registered is in the subjunctive mood.
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True or false
In a topical outline, the main points are written in sentences
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true or false
A nonessential phrase or clause will be set off from the rest of the sentence by commas.
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true or false
A participle is a verb form used as a(n) noun.
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true or false
Colons and semicolons go outside the closing quotation marks.
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Which writing style tells a story?
persuasive exposition descriptive narrative
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What poor writing style results from too many short, simple sentences?
stringy monotonous choppy all of the above
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What word is defined as the way we put words together?
tone syntax word choice style
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What part of the paragraph gives examples, reasons, or incidents?
topic sentence developing sentences clincher coherence
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What kind of publication is italicized?
poem book song pamphlet
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What punctuation is used after the salutation of a business letter?
colon semicolon dash comma
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When do you spell out a number in a sentence?
when the number is the first word of the sentence when there is only one number in
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What kind of phrase can function only as a noun?
gerund participial infinitive all of the above
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What poor writing style is caused by using too many and's, so's, or and then's?
stringy, monotonous, choppy, or all of the above?
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which word is a verbal in this sentence?
Below the boughs, the air was full of purple twilight, and far ahead a glimpse of
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correct the verb tense error in sentence three.
The stretch of road was almost 500 yards long, completely arched over with huge,
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correct the verb tense error.
Below the boughs, the air was full of purple twilight, and far ahead a glimpse of painted sunset
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What is the most important scientific principle that shows there had to have been an act of creation?
mathematics law of
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Which of the following best explains why the rate of decay of Earth′s magnetic field is proof of a young Earth?
Earth′s
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Which of the following best describes the outcome of random changes in DNA?
usually helpful always helpful usually harmful always
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What logical fallacy is committed when decay rates are used to "prove" evolution?
denying the antecedent, equivocation, post-hoc
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What logical fallacy is committed when decay rates are used to "prove" evolution?
denying the antecedent, equivocation, post-hoc
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What logical fallacy is committed when decay rates are used to "prove" evolution?
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true or false?
Secular humanism is a philosophy that asserts that nothing is knowable outside the natural world.
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true or false?
The ship on which Darwin sailed to South America and the Pacific islands was the HMS Beagle.
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true or false?
The shortened name of the book that Charles Darwin wrote is Origin of Species.
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Which idea states that God used evolution to make everything in the world?
Neo-Darwinism uniformitarianism secular humanism
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true or false?
The Latin phrase ex nihilo means "living soul."
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