When speaking to the following people, who would you use formal language with?

Choose the sentence that uses formal language:

You are writing an open letter to a group of students in your school, which would be the most appropriate opening?

What is the basic difference between formal and informal languages?

Nouns name a _____.

Which of the following is a proper noun?

Identify the noun(s).

The overwhelming emptiness closed in on me as I sat in the dark room.

which is negative?

Which is positive?

Select the adjectives: Snowy crystals fell softly on the dead leaves.

Select the adjectives: Chinese foods are popular in many countries.

Select the adjectives: Snowy crystals fell softly on the dead leaves.

Select the adjectives: What amazing luck it was to win the grand prize.

Select the adjectives: The old stone cottage is now a pizza shop.

Select the adjectives: Every year I visit the family farm.

Choose the correct answer to fill in the blanks: I prefer _______ ring on my finger to _______ one in the store.

Fill in the blanks with the correct words: No one makes _________ stew than my mom.

Fill in the blank with the correct answer: Mr. Harris is the ________ of my five teachers.

Fill in the blank with the correct answer: I've never heard _____________ directions.

Fill in the blank with the correct answer: Bella was the ___________ dog in her puppy training class.

Which word does the adjective "cheerful" modify?: Shirlee has a cheerful personality.

Which word does the adjective "bold" modify?" : Do you want the large room painted with bold or pastel colors?

Fill in the blank with the correct adjective: I've never known anyone with ________ patience than Isabelle has.

An excerpt from "At the Earth's Core" by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Prologue

In the first place please bear in mind that I do not expect you to believe this story. Nor could you wonder had you witnessed a recent experience of mine when, in the armor of blissful and stupendous ignorance, I gaily narrated the gist of it to a Fellow of the Royal Geological Society on the occasion of my last trip to London.

You would surely have thought that I had been detected in no less a heinous crime than the purloining of the Crown Jewels from the Tower, or putting poison in the coffee of His Majesty the King.

The erudite gentleman in whom I confided congealed before I was half through!—it is all that saved him from exploding—and my dreams of an Honorary Fellowship, gold medals, and a niche in the Hall of Fame faded into the thin, cold air of his arctic atmosphere.

But I believe the story, and so would you, and so would the learned Fellow of the Royal Geological Society, had you and he heard it from the lips of the man who told it to me. Had you seen, as I did, the fire of truth in those gray eyes; had you felt the ring of sincerity in that quiet voice; had you realized the pathos of it all—you, too, would believe. You would not have needed the final ocular proof that I had—the weird rhamphorhynchus-like creature which he had brought back with him from the inner world.

I came upon him quite suddenly, and no less unexpectedly, upon the rim of the great Sahara Desert. He was standing before a goat-skin tent amidst a clump of date palms within a tiny oasis. Close by was an Arab douar of some eight or ten tents.

I had come down from the north to hunt lion. My party consisted of a dozen children of the desert—I was the only “white” man. As we approached the little clump of verdure I saw the man come from his tent and with hand-shaded eyes peer intently at us. At sight of me he advanced rapidly to meet us.

“A white man!” he cried. “May the good Lord be praised! I have been watching you for hours, hoping against hope that THIS time there would be a white man. Tell me the date. What year is it?”

And when I had told him he staggered as though he had been struck full in the face, so that he was compelled to grasp my stirrup leather for support.

“It cannot be!” he cried after a moment. “It cannot be! Tell me that you are mistaken, or that you are but joking.”

“I am telling you the truth, my friend,” I replied. “Why should I deceive a stranger, or attempt to, in so simple a matter as the date?”

For some time he stood in silence, with bowed head.

“Ten years!” he murmured, at last. “Ten years, and I thought that at the most it could be scarce more than one!" That night he told me his story—the story that I give you here as nearly in his own words as I can recall them.

How does the narrator's assertion that the story may not seem believable to the reader affect the text?

Based on the previous excerpt:

The narrator says "had you realized the pathos of it all—you, too, would believe."The word PATHOS most likely means...

The erudite gentleman in whom I confided congealed before I was half through!—it is all that saved him from exploding—and my dreams of an Honorary Fellowship, gold medals, and a niche in the Hall of Fame faded into the thin, cold air of his arctic atmosphere.Paragraph 3 uses the word erudite.

The word ERUDITE most likely means...