WorksheetsVocabulary List: 1/21 - 1/23
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which statement best defines a participle?
A verb form used as an adjective
A noun that names an action
A clause that stands alone
A pronoun replacing a noun
What is diction?
author's chosen word choice
A phrase that is a complete sentence
arrangement of words
A phrase joining two clauses
Syntax is primarily concerned with what?
Sound patterns in poetry
Meanings of individual words
Arrangement of words in sentences
Origins of language families
Modernize a building means to do what?
Sell it for profit
Vacate it temporarily
Return it to original style
Adapt it to current needs
Albeit is best used to do which of the following?
Signal cause and effect
Mark a definition directly
Introduce contrast like although
Begin a list of examples
Prohibitive describes a law that does what?
Encourages certain actions
Explains how to comply
Forbids or restricts something
Rewards desired behavior
Which sentence uses adequate correctly?
The plan was illegal by city code
The resources were enough for the task
The law was prohibitive for all
The story was inevitable to occur
Inevitable best describes an event that is what?
Rare and unusual
Likely but uncertain
Impossible to avoid
Prevented by rules
What is the author's purpose?
His or her main reason for writing
A way of thinking
An opinion piece
Pilot’s private cabin
Inference is best defined as which?
Statement copied directly
Conclusion based on evidence
Opinion without any support
Prediction with no context
Choose the sentence where the word syntax is used appropriately.
The syntax of the essay improved clarity
The syntax tasted sweet at lunch
We folded syntax into the laundry
The syntax was a type of bicycle
Make (a person's hair) untidy.
(a)
Surprise or impress (someone) greatly.
(a)
What is the author's message?
The main idea or point the author wants to make
A detail
An opinion piece
The outer edge or border of something; sometimes refers to something not part of the main group.
(a)
The overall atmosphere or feeling of a story.
(a)
