Verbs/Subject-Modifier placement

​How to Verb......

​Verbs come in way too many shapes and sizes but the main thing is the Tenses.

Multiple Choice

In the 1950s, a man named Joseph McVicker was struggling to keep his business afloat when his sister in-law Kay Zufall advised him to repurpose the company’s product, a nontoxic, clay-like substance for removing soot from wallpaper, as a modeling putty for kids. In addition, Zufall ______ selling the product under a child-friendly name: Play-Doh.

• suggested

• suggests

• had suggested

• was suggesting

Multiple Choice

Did you find out who had taken the money? "Yes. Robert finally admitted _____ it all".

• to spend

• have spending

• to have spent

• to having spent

Multiple Choice

Before the museum closed permanently, it faced financial challenges that ______ a large deficit and declining ticket sale revenues.

• include

• will include

• would include

• included

Multiple Choice

In many of her landscape paintings from the 1970s and 1980s, Lebanese American artist Etel Adnan worked to capture the essence of California’s fog-shrouded Mount Tamalpais region through abstraction, using splotches of color to represent the area’s features. Interestingly, the triangle representing the mountain itself _______ among the few defined figures in her paintings.

• are

• have been

• were

• is

Multiple Choice

No sooner _____ his umbrella than it began to rain again`

• had he closed

• has he closed

• will he close

• does he close

​Subject-modifier placement

​Subject-modifier placement is an English Language Convention dictating the relationship between a Subject and a Modifier.

Modifier = Noun/Subject Definer.

​In 1453, English King Henry VI became unfit to rule after falling gravely ill. As a result, Parliament appointed Richard, Third Duke of York, who had a strong claim to the English throne, to rule as Lord Protector. Upon recovering two years later, Henry resumed his reign, forcing an angered Richard from the royal court and precipitating a series of battles later known as the Wars of the Roses.

​The most important thing to note is what is being defined.

The easiest way to do so is thinking backwards.

Multiple Choice

Rabinal Achí is a precolonial Maya dance drama performed annually in Rabinal, a town in the Guatemalan highlands. Based on events that occurred when Rabinal was a city-state ruled by a king, ______ had once been an ally of the king but was later captured while leading an invading force against him.

• Rabinal Achí tells the story of K’iche’ Achí, a military leader who

• K’iche’ Achí, the military leader in the story of Rabinal Achí,

• there was a military leader, K’iche’ Achí, who in Rabinal Achí

• the military leader whose story is told in Rabinal Achí, K’iche’ Achí,

  Check

Multiple Choice

Having returned from the ocean to the stream where it was born, an adult salmon's life cycle ends when it spawns and dies, after which its offspring start the cycle anew.

• an adult salmon's life cycle ends when it spawns and dies,

• an adult salmon spawns and dies, completing its life cycle,

• the spawning and death of an adult salmon complete its life cycle,

• the life cycle of an adult salmon is complete when it spawns and die,

Multiple Choice

Having little to no food left, no restaurants were in the area to order from.

• NO CHANGE

• restaurants in the area could not be ordered from.

• the area had no restaurants to order from.

• I could not find any restaurants in the area to order from.

Multiple Choice

While popular depiction might characterize surfing as a summer sport, the reality is that winter conditions are considered better for surfing. Generated by seasonal storms far off the coast, ______

• surfers highly prize the large, predictable sets of waves that are created by winter swells.

• winter swells reach the shore as large, predictable sets of waves that are highly prized by surfers.

• the shore causes large winter swells to break in predictable sets of waves highly prized by surfers.

• winter is highly prized by surfers for large swells that break in large, predictable sets of waves.

Multiple Choice

• cacho de cabra, or goat's horn chili, is the primary ingredient of merken

• merken primarily consists of cacho de cabra or goat's horn chili

• the primary ingredient in merken is cacho de cabra or goat's horn chili

• merken's primary ingredient is cacho de cabra or goat's horn chili