English 1135 Self Test

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William Shakespeare

"... screw your courage to the sticking-place..."

the Bible

"... then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory."

William Shakespeare

"False face must hide what the false heart doth know "

singular,plural

The personal pronouns he, she, and it take ... verbs. The personal pronouns we, you, and they take ... verbs. I is an exception.

Author

William Shakespeare

James I

first Stuart monarch

blank verse

has no rhyme

A singular or plural ... pronoun must agree with its verb

indefinite

A collective noun takes either a singular or plural verb depending on whether the writer has ... or the ... in view

individuals, group

John Knox

led the Protestant Reformation in Scotland

John Knox

"Satan ... is never more busy than when we ... bend ourselves to prayer"

Setting

Scotland

Macbeth

Shakespearean tragedy

soliloquy

a speech to oneself

Some words, although they appear to be ..., take singular verbs

plural

the Great Bible and the Book of Common Prayer

two prose works that influenced several Elizabethan writers

A compound subject consisting of both singular and plural words joined by "or" or "nor" takes a verb that agrees in number with the subject nearer the ...

verb

Sir Walter Raleigh

"O eloquent, just, and might Death! Thou hast drawn together all the ... ambition of man, and covered it ... with ... Hic jacet!"

singular,plural

... subjects require singular verbs, and ... subjects require plural verbs

defeat of Spanish Armada

major event that permitted Elizabethan Age to blossom

A compound subject consisting of two or more plural words joined by "or" or "nor" takes a ... verb

plural

A compound subject joined by "and" takes a ... verb

plural

William Shakespeare

prolific Elizabethan poet and playwright

John Foxe

provided memorable account of Protestant persecution under "Bloody Mary"

If the subject of a clause is a ... pronoun, the verb must agree with the antecedent of the pronoun

relative

The four temperaments are

sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic, melancholic

A compound subject consisting of two or more singular words joined by "or" or "nor" takes a ... verb

singular

For an indefinite pronoun that can be either ... or ..., the number of the verb is determined by the object of the preposition

singular, plural

Sir Walter Raleigh

soldier, explorer, courtier, writer

If a predicate nominative and the subject are different in number, the verb always agrees with the ...

subject

When a sentence begins with "here" or "there," the verb must agree with the ..., which follows the verb

subject


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