HonEng 6 -Verbs, Italics, Participles

Choose the verb and its tense: Cell phone usage (grow, has grown) this century due to advances in technology.

Active or Passive: "The mouse was caught by the cat."

In the 1859 novel, "A Tale of Two Cities," Dickens describes events leading to the French Revolution.

In which verb tense did both events happen in the past (uses "had")

In ACTIVE voice, the subject ______ the verb's action , and in the PASSIVE voice, the subject _____ the verb's action.

Which perfect verb tense shows action that started in the past and continues through the present (uses "has" or "have")

By the 1920s, inventors (had built, will have built) a radio most Americans could afford.

What is the participle/participial phrase: "Going out to eat, the family piled into the car."

Active or Passive: "The Bucs won the Super Bowl."

Choose the correct verb and its tense: By next weekend, the fluffy cat (slept, will have slept) in my closet all week.

What is wrong with these sentences: The car is washed. It looked beautiful in the garage.

What is the participle in this sentence? "Her hurting leg shook with each step she took."

To form a past participle verb, add -ed or -d to a regular verb, or use the past participle of an irregular verb.

When handwriting, you use italics to punctuate the title of a newspaper or title of a movie.

In which perfect verb tense has the event started in the past but might continue into the future (uses "will have")

In PASSIVE voice, the sentence order is usually: object -->verb --> subject (check prepositional phrase).

In writing, how do you punctuate SHORT works - poems, short stories, songs, articles, book chapters, and TV episodes?

What do you call a verb that acts like an ADJECTIVE and modifies a noun or pronoun?

This sentence is punctuated correctly: FDR said, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

In ACTIVE voice, the sentence order is usually: subject --> verb --> object (if there is one).

The three "simple" verb tenses are past, present, and future.

The "present participle" verb is formed by adding a helping verb + "-ing."

Which sentence is correctly punctuated?