Windholz Q2: W2

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1. What is an antonym for the word belligerent?

• agreeable
• aggressive
• hostile
• fighting

2. What is an antonym for the word belligerent?

• aggressive
• hostile
• peaceful
• fighting

3. Name the sound device in the following excerpt from Shel Silverstein’s poem “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out.” “Gloppy glumps of cold oatmeal, Pizza crusts and withered greens,”

• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• idiom
• simile

4. Choose the correct pronoun: To (who, whom) was the package addressed?

• who
• whom

5. Identify the conjunction: The doctors will know more once the test results are back.

• doctors
• once
• results
• back

6. Is the conjunction in the previous sentence a coordinate or subordinating conjunction?

• coordinate
• subordinate

7. Does the 𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐝 prepositional phrase function as an adjective or an adverb? Sarah and Sydney met underneath their favorite tree after the history exam.

• adjective
• adverb

8. Turn the following sentences into a complex sentence. Phillip is a musical prodigy. He has been playing the piano since he was two.

• Phillip is a musical prodigy, he has been playing the piano since he was two.
• Phillip is a musical prodigy. He has been playing the piano. Since he was two.
• Phillip is a musical prodigy who has been playing the piano since he was two.

9. Identify the dangling modifier: To double-check my hypothesis, the experiment was conducted again.

• To double-check my hypothesis
• the experiment
• was conducted
• again