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...
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