Eng 10 Exam Rev #5

When I am trying to save money, I hate buying clothes.
What is the gerund?

• am trying
• buying
• to save
• hate

Caroline loves reading about history, she hopes to visit some sites she read about. What is the gerund?

• loves
• read
• history
• reading

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

What is a Verbal?

• Words in sentence formed using verbs but do not function as verbs.
• Word in sentence formed using verbs that function as a verb.
• An action word used to describe something
• is added to the beginning or end of a sentence.

What is the definition of a gerund phrase? 

•  A phrase that starts with a verb and adding -ing.
• A verbal phrase that ends in -int -en -ed -t.
• A form of a verb adding any compliments and modifiers. 
• A verb that has a adjective pronoun coming after it. 

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

What is the participle in the following sentence?
The sobbing child held his injured knee.

• The
• sobbing
• child
• held

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

What is the participle in the following sentence?
The cascading waterfall poured down over the rocks.

• waterfall
• rocks
• over
• cascading

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

Which of the following words means "slandered"?

• maligned
• apathy
• oppressive
• incredulous

If someone did not care at all about a subject, they would feel __ toward it.

• antipathy
• apathy
• maligned
• oppressive

____________ is the tendency to believe too readily.

• credulity
• peril
• technique
• prosaic

incredulity (n)

• disbelief
• pain 
• awe
• faith