WorksheetsFreshmen Honors WOW 18
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 13mins
Few Little League pitchers had the courage, astuteness and ability to manage those types of pitches.
W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game
Synonyms for the underlined word could be:
Intelligent & Perceptive
Critical & Sharp
Serious & Determined
Dense & Indecisive
Few Little League pitchers had the courage, astuteness and ability to manage those types of pitches.
W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game
What part of speech is the underlined word?
Adverb
Adjective
Noun
Verb
The idea of being a clown recurred to him now, only to fill him with disgust.
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The definition of the underlined word is:
come back to one's mind
suddenly spring or flinch back in fear or horror
return like an aggressive dog or one that is in poor condition
making a certain situation or outcome likely or possible
The idea of being a clown recurred to him now, only to fill him with disgust.
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
What part of speech is the underlined word?
Adjective
Adverb
Noun
Verb
Every wall was covered with tapestries: hunting scenes, court scenes, pastoral scenes.
Gail Carson Levine -- Ella Enchanted
Of all the definitions of the underlined word, which makes the most sense as used in this sentence?
Pertaining to the duties of a pastor
(of a work of art) portraying or evoking country life
related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle
a work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life
Every wall was covered with tapestries: hunting scenes, court scenes, pastoral scenes.
Gail Carson Levine -- Ella Enchanted
The underlined word is what part of speech?
Verb
Adjective
Noun
Adverb
Cristian tried to move the robot up in the water, but Stinky began to spin erratically.
Joshua Davis -- Spare Parts
A synonym for the underlined word could be:
Unpredictably
Constantly
Regulalry
Incorrectly
Cristian tried to move the robot up in the water, but Stinky began to spin erratically.
Joshua Davis -- Spare Parts
What part of speech, derived from erratic, is the underlined word?
Adjective
Adverb
Verb
Noun
And as a high moral tone can hardly be said to conduce very much to either one’s health or one’s happiness...
Oscar Wilde -- The Importance of Being Earnest
The underlined word, part of an infinitive phrase, is the base word of "conducive" which means?
the right conditions for bringing about
the action or manner of managing an activity or organization.
the transmission of impulses along nerves.
not even or regular in pattern or movement; unpredictable.
And as a high moral tone can hardly be said to conduce very much to either one’s health or one’s happiness...
Oscar Wilde -- The Importance of Being Earnest
"Tone" is the subject; "can be" is the verb; which means "said" is the predicate adjective Since the underlined infinitive phrase follows "said" which describes "tone"; that means the underlined infinitive phrase is an:
Adjective
Noun
Adverb
Verb
Cristian tried to move the robot up in the water, but Stinky began to spin erratically.
Joshua Davis -- Spare Parts
What type of sentence is this?
Compound
Complex
Compound-Complex
Simple
Which sentence for "astute" contains an infinitive phrase?
"You've completely changed, you used to be so astute, are you losing it now?"
Franz Kafka -- The Trial
Mundt gained a reputation as a loyal and astute protector of the people, and he silenced forever those tongues that could betray his secret. John Le Carre -- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
For all his sagacity, for all his caution and astuteness, the old judge had gone the way of the rest. Agatha Christie -- And Then There Were None
knew that so astute a villain would see that our hands were tied in the matter.
Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Which sentence using "recur" contains an infinitive phrase?
All their former disharmony and her own jealousy recurred to her mind.
Moreover, the words of the masonic statutes, "be kindly and courteous," recurred to him.
The Reformation set up a new idea of faith, or recurred to one of the oldest of all.
Again, all accounts of diphtheria show a tendency on the part of the disease to recur in the same districts year after year.
