It is a dangerous thing

to forget the climate of your birthplace,

to choke out the voices of dead relatives

when in dreams they call you

by your secret name.

Which best describes the tone of the passage?

a. confused

b. serious

c. mournful

d. angry

Which kind of adverb is the underlined word in the sentence? Our ballet class meets weekly at the recreation center. A. manner B. time C. place

Mr. underwood quotes in to kill a mockingbird

Which is an example of faulty coordination? A. Places that Mark Twain describes in Huckleberry Finn are based on real places in Missouri. B. Samuel Clemens was born in 1835, and he is better known by the pen name Mark Twain. C.

The purpose of an essay is usually expressed in the: a. lead. b. thesis. c. body of the essay. d. title.

1. We walked over the mountain.

Read the sentence. During the marathon race, we came up behind the leaders and finally ran beside them. Which kind of pronoun case is the bold word? A. objective case B. nominative case C. possessive case

When a professor says that in order to avoid being counted absent you must come to scheduled classes, come to class before the bell, stay the entire class period, and leave only when dismissed, she is using an operational definition. 1. True2. False

What might people do to preserve the sanctity of a special place?

Identify the italicized word according to its class in structural linguistics. The principal is {extremely} busy. a. intensive b. noun c. empty word d. verb

Expand the following sentences by adding adjectives with each noun. 1. The boy walked into his house. 2. The wolf ran into the forest. 3. The magician fooled the people. 4. The girl visited a friend. 5. The man begged for food.