Great Fire of London 1666 Text

What is highlighted in red:

The ordinary course of this paper having been interuppted by a sad and lamentable accident of Fire

(a)  

What is highlighted in red?

lately hapned in the City of London

• proper noun phrase

• adjective phrase

• verb phrase

• adverbial

Type out the passive verb phrase from this clause:

it hath been thought fit for satisfying the minds of so many of His Majesties good Subjects

(a)  

Select the nouns in this clause from the options below:

who must needs be concerned for the Issue of so great an accident, to give this short, but true Accompt of it 

• issue

• accident

• give

• accompt

Type out one of the two adverbials of time from this clause:

On the second instant, at one of the clock in the Morning, there hapned to break out, a sad and deplorable Fire in Pudding-lane, neer New Fish-street

(a)  

What is highlighted in red?

which falling out at that hour of the night, and in a quarter of the Town so close built with wooden pitched houses

• verb phrase

• adverbial

• adjective phrase

• noun phrase

What is this?

that care was not taken for the timely preventing the further diffusion of it

• main clause

• subordinate clause

• adverbial

• verb phrase

What is highlighted in red?

so that this lamentable Fire in a short time became too big to be mastered by any Engines or working neer it.

(a)  

Is this an active or passive verb?

It fell out most unhappily, too

• Active

• Passive