A touchdown was scored by the Cowboys, and there was much crying done by the Patriots.

Which of the following sentences is NOT written in active voice?

Which of the following sentences is written in the passive voice?

Which of the following is written in the active voice?

A solar eclipse was predicted by Thales of Miletus in 585 B.C.

In the event of an apocalypse, survivors must make their way to the nearest structure.

What is a clause?

What is a phrase?

Is the following underlined part a phrase or a clause?

Hiding under the table, the dog knew he was bad.

In the following sentence, what is the underlined part?

Linda, a girl in my class, was absent today.

In the following sentence, is the underlined part a dependent clause or independent clause:

I study hard so I get good grades.

Is the following underlined part a dependent or independent clause?

After the game, we went to McDonalds.

Which of the following words are NOT a conjunction?

Cannot stand by themselves; Do not express a complete thought.

Can stand by itself or with a dependent clause.

A(n) ___ is a word, phrase, or clause that modifies (or describes) another word and adds detail to a sentence.

A(n) ____ modifies (or describes) nouns or pronouns.

A(n) ____ modifies (or describes) verbs.

What does the red phrase modify (or describe) in the following sentence?

The shoes with the yellow stripes are expensive.

To correct a misplaced modifier, rearrange, revise, and ____ the sentence by moving the words.

Which of the following sentences is grammatically correct?

Which sentence is written MOST clearly and correctly?

Choose the sentence with the modifier in the correct place.

Is the sentence below written correctly?

Covered in wildflowers, the elephant pondered the hillside's beauty.

Which sentence is written MOST clearly and correctly?

Odysseus comes back to Ithaca on a clear day.

All his impatience leaves him, and he sits under and oak tree.

An hour passes in silence, and it occurs to him that he is tried and might as well go home, so he picks up his sword and walks.

Although it's the late 1940s, she hasn't yet reached the age of thirty.

I was a kid who had failed freshman year at the regular public high school because I never showed up.

I had transferred to an alternative school that offered dream studies instead of biology, so I was taking Defler's class at the community college for high school credit.

Henrietta often yelled for Daisy, but sometimes she cheered for another cousin.

Johns Hopkins was built in 1889 as a charity hospital for the sick and poor, and it covered more than a dozen acres where a cemetery and the insane asylum once sat in East Baltimore.