20 grammatical questions and answers based on Ray Bradbury's All Summer in a Day. The questions cover various grammatical aspects, such as sentence structure, verb tense, and parts of speech.
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1. Question: What is the tense of the sentence: "It had been raining for seven years"?
Answer: Past perfect continuous.
2. Question: Identify the subject and predicate in the sentence: "They stood as if someone had driven them, like so many stakes, into the floor."
Answer:
- Subject: "They"
- Predicate: "stood as if someone had driven them, like so many stakes, into the floor."
3. Question: What type of sentence is this: "It’s like a penny."
Answer: It is a simple sentence.
4. Question: What part of speech is the word "savagely" in: "They glanced at each other and then savagely pushed her."
Answer: Adverb.
5. Question: Rewrite this sentence in active voice: "The door was slammed shut by one of the boys."
Answer: "One of the boys slammed the door shut."
6. Question: What is the mood of the verb in the sentence: "If only they could see the sun!"
Answer: Subjunctive mood.
7. Question: Identify the conjunction in the sentence: "They hated her because she had seen the sun."
Answer: "Because."
8. Question: What is the function of the clause "that it was the color of flaming bronze" in the sentence: "She told them that it was the color of flaming bronze."
Answer: It is a noun clause acting as the object of the verb "told."
9. Question: What type of adjective is used in: "A single drop of rain fell on the roof."
Answer: Descriptive adjective ("single").
10. Question: What is the grammatical term for the phrase: "like a treasure" in the sentence: "The sun was like a treasure they had lost."
Answer: Simile.
11. Question: Identify the prepositional phrase in: "They walked slowly down the tunnels."
Answer: "Down the tunnels."
12. Question: What kind of verb is "were" in the sentence: "They were jealous of her memories."
Answer: Linking verb.
13. Question: What is the antecedent of "her" in the sentence: "They turned and looked at her."
Answer: Margot.
14. Question: Is the sentence "It was raining." simple or compound?
Answer: Simple sentence.
15. Question: What is the difference between "It is raining" and "It has been raining" in terms of tense?
Answer:
- "It is raining" is in the present continuous tense.
- "It has been raining" is in the present perfect continuous tense.
16. Question: Identify the adverb in: "They looked up at the sky eagerly."
Answer: "Eagerly."
17. Question: Is the word "rain" in the sentence "The endless rain washed away their dreams" a noun or a verb?
Answer: Noun.
18. Question: Parse the sentence: "They smiled, but it was a pale smile."
Answer:
- Clause 1: "They smiled" (independent clause).
- Clause 2: "But it was a pale smile" (independent clause connected by "but").
19. Question: What type of pronoun is "it" in: "It was the color of flaming bronze"?
Answer: Personal pronoun.
20. Question: Rewrite this sentence into a complex sentence: "They locked Margot in the closet, and then they went outside."
Answer: "After they locked Margot in the closet, they went outside."
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