English 12 Unit 2 Lesson 9

As for his skills in reckoning his tides,/ currents and many another risk besides,/ moons, harbors, pilots, he had such DISPATCH/ that none from hull to Carthage was his match.

Calculating

The pastry chef prepared COOKIES and CUPCAKES for the younger guests.

Compound direct object

The discovery represented an ADVANCEMENT for science and a CHALLENGE to conventional thinking.

Compound predicate nominative

For our parents nothing can we claim/save TEMPORAL things, and these may hurt and maim.

Secular

SUMMARIZING A FICTION PASSAGE is not as easy as you might think.

Gerund phrase

But since you have come here for FOLLY, you may as well find it.

Act of foolishness

Then he would shout and jabber as if crazy,/and wouldn't speak a word except in Latin/when he was drunk, such tags as he was pat in/he only had a few, say two or three/that he had mugged up out of some DECREE/no wonder, for he heard them every day.

Formal order

The last testimony gave THE JUDGE a reason to doubt the defendant's version of the story.

Indirect object

The lawyers advised THE CLIENT to stay silent while in court.

Indirect object

The painter used a thin brush TO PAINT THE FOLIAGE IN THE BACKGROUND.

Infinitive phrase

And studied the young man standing there,/shoulders hunched/and considered that STAUNCH and doughty stance he took/undaunted yet and in his heart he liked it.

Steadfast

There was a Knight a most distinguished man,/Who from the day on which he first began/to ride abroad had followed CHIVALRY,/Truth, honor, generousness and courtesy.

Knightly social code

COMPARING THE TWO ESSAYS it is obvious that one relied on more thorough research.

Participial phrase

Of all the dioramas that were present, I believe Jade's was the most CREATIVE.

Predicate adjective

Only two OF HIS SCRIPTS were accepted by the television producers.

Prepositional phrase

The Haitian Revolution ended with Haiti's independence FROM FRANCE.

Prepositional phrase

If there be one among you that is willing/to have my ABSOLUTION for a shilling.

Remission of sin

Seldom arises by these slender branches/ PROWESS of men, for it is God, no less/wills us to claim of Him our gentleness.

Skills or expertise

And thus I preach against the very VICE/I make my living out of-avarice.

Weakness of character

He was as good as dead/ it seems that then the STATUTES took that view/but that the queen, and other ladies too/implored the king to excuse his grace...

Written laws