English 1135 Self Test
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
