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• If you added -ed to the noun scent, what part of speech is the resulting word?
• What is a direct object?
• Whom: direct or indirect object?
• The correct possessive spelling of lady? is it Lady's, Ladys' Ladies'?
• What is a possessive noun and could you give me a few examples?
• What is the difference between its and it's? Thank you!!
• What is a possessive pronoun?
• What is the plural possessive form of "people"?
• What is an example of the singular possessive case?
• Just curious: do other languages, besides English, have as many tenses? Like do all languages have Present Perfect Continuous tense?
• What are conjunctions and when should they be used?
• What is/are the conjunctions in the following sentence?: All of us wanted to go to either the movies or the mall, so we carpooled.
• What is/are the conjunctions in the following sentence?: We saw that they were playing both monopoly and chess at the same time.
• What is/are the conjunctions in the following sentence?: We cannot leave yet, because we are still waiting on Matt and Sam.
• What is/are the object(s) of the following sentence?: We wanted to ride our bicycles, but because of the storm we instead played board games.
• What is/are the object(s) of the following sentence?: They are pushing the apple cart.
• What is/are the object(s) of the following sentence?: I will carry the groceries, if you carry the new microwave.
• What is/are the object(s) of the following sentence?: The supermarket was running low on apples, but had plenty of pears.
• What is/are the object(s) of the following sentence?: I put my yellow sweater in the closet, before putting on my green t-shirt.
• What is/are the present participle(s) of the following sentence?: She looked out the window of the moving train.
• What is/are the present participle(s) of the following sentence?: Everyone expected the crawling tortoise to lose the race to the hopping hare.
• What is/are the present participle(s) of the following sentence?: We tried to ignore the crying baby.
• What is/are the present participle(s) of the following sentence?: We jumped on the moving bandwagon.
• Does the following sentence have an antecedent? If so, where?: We borrowed an atlas to find out where Tasmania is, but we could not find it anywhere.
• Does the following sentence have an antecedent? If so, where?: Scott visited Sara on his day off.
• Does the following sentence have an antecedent? If so, where?: Go check out the warehouse. That is where they usually keep the packages.
• Does the following sentence have an antecedent? If so, where?: Matt said that he likes riding his bike every morning.
• Does the following sentence have an antecedent? If so, where?: Steve works very hard, unfortunately Sam does not do the same.
• Does the following sentence have an antecedent? If so, where?: Mark says jokes all the time, most of which no one finds funny.
• Does the following sentence have an antecedent? If so, where?: Some people came by to offer their help. They were really friendly.
• Does the following sentence have any indirect objects? If so, where?: She gave me a gift.
• Does the following sentence have any indirect objects? If so, where?: Paula passed her father the parcel.
• Does the following sentence have any indirect objects? If so, where?: I bought your brother a bike.
• Does the following sentence have any indirect objects? If so, where?: I will make you a nice strong cup of coffee before you go to work.
• Does the following sentence have any indirect objects? If so, where?: The dog was sent to the veterinarian.
• What is/are the direct object(s) in the following sentence?: We will send the flowers directly to the buyer.
• What is/are the direct object(s) in the following sentence?: I will forward the e-mail to you.
• What is/are the direct object(s) in the following sentence?: The werewolf is scaring the other monsters.
• What is/are the direct object(s) in the following sentence?: We forgot to feed the cat.
• What is/are the direct object(s) in the following sentence?: The chickens are coming home to roost.
• What is/are the direct object(s) in the following sentence?: Our neighbor's tree fell into our backyard.
• What is/are the direct object(s) in the following sentence?: We cut down three trees in our backyard and planted several shrubs in their place.
• What is/are the direct object(s) in the following sentence?: I flew the plane to the eastern shore.
• What is/are the direct object(s) in the following sentence?: The second dancer to perform won first place.
• What is/are the direct object(s) in the following sentence?: We enjoyed dinner and later went to the play.
• What is/are the direct object(s) in the following sentence?: The darkness made it very difficult to notice the family of deer in our backyard.
• What is/are the direct object(s) in the following sentence?: The repairman did a great job repairing my TV.
• What is/are the direct object(s) in the following sentence?: We should send someone to check on the bridge; it may need repairs.
• What is/are the direct object(s) in the following sentence?: Tomorrow the sun will rise and then set.
• Lie-all tenses?
• What are descriptive nouns, verbs, and adjectives?
• What is a descriptive word?
• What are examples of intransitive verbs, transitive verbs, direct objects, and indirect objects?
• What is a compound predicate nominative?
• What is a nominative case?
• In the following sentence, is "who" the subject, predicate nominative, direct object, indirect object, object of preposition, possessive, or appositive? Please use this ticket for the child who you think is most deserving.
• The word "books" in this sentence is which part of speech - subject, verb, direct object, or object of a preposition? We both thought that this novel was one of the finest books we have ever read.
• How are the relative pronoun, interrogative pronoun, and the interrogative adjective similar and different in declension, translation, and use?
• Could any of these be considered passive? I don't quite understand the concept of passive voice.
• What is a copulative conjunction?
• What are examples of four worded alliterations with a noun, adjective, verb, and adverb? e.g. angry alligators attack angrily- only those types please
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• Why is the definite article "the" used before some countries and not before some other countries?
• Why do we sometimes use the definite article "the" in front of seasons and sometimes omit it?
• What is the rationale behind using the definite article before the word "class" in the following sentences?
• How can I teach definite and indefinite articles? How should I introduce the concept in an enjoyable way to Elementary school students?
• What are examples of sentences using indefinite article to introduce nouns for the first time?
• What are the four kinds of nominative and objective case of nouns?
• Nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, what exactly are these related to grammar?
• What are noun appositives?
• Is the nominative case when a pronoun acts as the subject? Or does it have to be an objective pronoun?
• What part of grammar indicates an unspecified person or thing?
• What part of grammar is a word which is both a pronoun and an adjective?
• What part of grammar is a prepositional phrase acting as adjective?
• What part of speech is used for subjects and subject complements?
• What is an indefinite pronoun?
• What part of a sentence makes it accusitive?
• What is an adjective phrase?
• What is the true meaning of conjunctive proposition and disjunctive proposition?
• What is the difference between conjunctive adverbs and conjunctions? What are some examples?
• What is the difference between a conjunction and a preposition?
• What is the disjunction of a contingent form and a contradiction? What is a conditional with a contradiction for an antecedent and a contingent form for a consequent? Any help you can give me is greatly appreciated!!!! Thanks!?
• What is the difference between conjunction and disjunction?
• On my essay format I can't begin sentences with conjunctions such as "but, and, or, nor, for, so yet." Would using however in this sentence make it a conjunction: "However, he was unable to control his emotions which lead to his own defeat."?
• Geometry is fun or ducks do not like water. Is this conjunction, disjunction, negation, or conditional?
• What kind of a conjunctive are "neither, nor" sentences?
• If the statement “The queen of England is Diana” is false, then the statement, “It is not the case that the queen of England is Diana” is what type of conjunction?
• In logic, when is a conjunction true?
• What does it take for a compound conditional statement to be false?
• What is the inverse of the sentence "If i win, then I'm happy." ?
• What is a disjunctive conjunction?
• How are definite and indefinite articles used in English grammar?
• How many indefinite articles are there in English?
• What does "indefinite articles" mean in English?
• What words are indefinite articles?
• Are "any" and "more" indefinite adjectives?
• What part of speech does "the" belong to? Is it a noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, or interjection?
• Why isn't "it" the definite article feminine singular?
• My teacher won't let us start a sentence with articles or pronouns. Are the only articles, "a" "an" and "the"?
• What is an article, how do you define it? Can it be about a specific subject or does it need to be about a broad subject?
• Is "A" a preposition?
• Which one is grammatically correct: Having a dinner or having dinner?
• What is poetry called that has no rhyme or definite rhythm?
• In the sentence: "Well, it's a photograph," is "a" a noun? Why or why not?
• If I say the song is used as a theme song in the movie, would you take that it is the only theme song or that there are more than one?
• Is "a" an adjective?
• If I am describing a utopia, would I write "In a utopia" or "In an utopia"? Which is grammatically correct?
• Which indefinite article is used before a letter? How do you decide? Is the way a letter is "spelled" the deciding factor?
• What figure of speech uses repeating consonants to make sound effects?
• What is the appositive in this sentence, "The artist Verdicini created his art by throwing paint onto a wall" ?
• What is the appositive phrase in this sentence, " Philip is walking with Rufus, an old English sheepdog."?
• In the sentence "The tennis pro showed us how to return a serve.", which word is the indirect object in the sentence?
• In the sentence "If your bicycle tire is low, use a pump to fill it with air.", which word is the direct object?
• Why are transitions important in writing?
• What is it called when we break a text to parts and see how the various parts it are related?
• What is the participial phrase in this sentence "The boy sleeping in the corner is snoring loudly"?
• What is the participial phrase in this sentence " The people living in New York deal with snow all winter"?
• What part of speech does the word in capital "Silver will tarnish if it is NOT polished"?
• What is the function of the complement shown in parentheses in this sentence " The coach gave the team a few last (words) of encouragement"?
• What is the function of the complement shown in parentheses in this sentence?- "Steven seems (unconcerned) about his grades"?
• What is the function of the complement shown in parentheses in this sentence "We named our (Australian shepherd) Allie" ?
• What is the function of the complement shown in parentheses in this sentence " Film critics consider that movie the (best) of the decade" ?
• What is the function of the complement shown in parentheses in this sentence "The gorilla in the cage gave me a chilling (look)" ?
• What is the function of the complement shown in parentheses in this sentence "The situation seems completely (desperate)" ?
• What structure is used in the sentence: "Mom knows who ate the last piece of pie, but she won't tell."?
• What structure is used in the sentence: "It was a gloomy day when we found out our team lost the debate."?
• What is the incorrect word or phrase in this sentence "Regina loves to play sport's after class"?
• "After he discovered the positive impact of team sports", David Barkan founded Ultimate Peace. What type of clause is in parenthesis?
• How do you make the word 'country' plural?
• How do you make the word 'thief' plural?
• "The damp leaves gave off a peppery scent as she scooped them into the wheelbarrow." What type of language is dominant in this passage?
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• What part of speech is the word "absurd"?
• How is the infinitive phrase used in the sentence, "He wants to tell you about his day."?
• The truth is that whenever l eat an orange or a pear, l get very thirsty. Which word is the definite article?
• Which syllable in carbonaceous is most heavily stressed?
• What are the differences between: yet/even though; so/because; though/although?
• What are used when you want the second part of your sentence to help explain the first part? The second part part happens as a result of the first.
• How do you know when to use "hanged" or "hung" in a sentence? This applies to any other words similar to this.
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• Is 're a suitable contraction with all?
• In the word "musical", what do you call the letters "al"?
• What prefix indicates a quantity of seven?
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