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AP English Language and Composition Unit 6: Syntax and Sentence Structure — practice questions — page 3

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Tap every antonym of ACRIMONY and ENMITYRead the answer and worked solution →More oppositesRead the answer and worked solution →True or false: more oppositesRead the answer and worked solution →Warm or hostile?Read the answer and worked solution →Spot the one that agrees rather than opposesRead the answer and worked solution →Flip and pair: more oppositesRead the answer and worked solution →Words like however and therefore that link ideas between sentences are called:Read the answer and worked solution →A writer adds 'in addition' to warn the reader what is coming next. Such words help writing:Read the answer and worked solution →English verbs are described as having how many voices?Read the answer and worked solution →In 'The cook baked the bread', the subject performs the action. The voice is:Read the answer and worked solution →An essay stuffed with passive constructions ends up lacking vitality and becoming:Read the answer and worked solution →The vantage point from which a story or report is told is called the:Read the answer and worked solution →A writer using the pronouns I and we is writing in the:Read the answer and worked solution →A memoir or literacy narrative most commonly uses which point of view?Read the answer and worked solution →A writer addressing the reader directly as you is using the:Read the answer and worked solution →In most academic writing, the second person pronoun you is considered:Read the answer and worked solution →A student checking for accidental second person should search her draft for the word:Read the answer and worked solution →The point of view that puts the information ahead of the writer is:Read the answer and worked solution →Most indefinite pronouns, such as everyone and nobody, take a verb that is:Read the answer and worked solution →The indefinite pronouns both, few, many, others and several all take a verb that is:Read the answer and worked solution →Words such as audience, band, class, crowd, family and team are called:Read the answer and worked solution →When the members of a group act individually rather than as one, the verb should be:Read the answer and worked solution →The feature of a verb that shows past, present or future time is its:Read the answer and worked solution →Verbs that do not form their past tense by adding a standard ending are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Roughly how many irregular verbs does English have?Read the answer and worked solution →The past tense of the verb to lead is spelled:Read the answer and worked solution →A student needs the past tense of the verb lie. That form is:Read the answer and worked solution →In MLA style, signal phrases generally use the present tense or the:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the transitionsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the viewpointsRead the answer and worked solution →

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Tap every antonym of ACRIMONY and ENMITY

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Questions
  1. Items
    1. Text
      sympathy
      Matches the category
      Yes
    2. Text
      kindliness
      Matches the category
      Yes
    3. Text
      harmony
      Matches the category
      Yes
    4. Text
      hatred
      Matches the category
      No
    5. Text
      anger
      Matches the category
      No
    Category
    Antonym of ENMITY
From that antonym entry. Source: English Synonyms and Antonyms, Fernald (1896), public domain.

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More opposites

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Questions
  1. Question
    An antonym of ENMITY
    Choices
    1. spite
    2. scorn
    3. sympathy
    Correct choice
    sympathy
  2. Question
    An antonym of HATRED
    Choices
    1. regard
    2. rancour
    3. revenge
    Correct choice
    regard
  3. Question
    An antonym of EXTERMINATE
    Choices
    1. crush
    2. cherish
    3. curtail
    Correct choice
    cherish
  4. Question
    An antonym of ALLAY
    Choices
    1. assuage
    2. abate
    3. augment
    Correct choice
    augment
Drawn from the same antonym entries. Source: English Synonyms and Antonyms, Fernald (1896), public domain.

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True or false: more opposites

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Questions
  1. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    'Sympathy' opposes 'enmity'.
  2. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    'Harmony' opposes 'acrimony'.
  3. Statement is true
    No
    Statement
    'Rancour' opposes 'enmity'.
  4. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    'Cherish' opposes 'exterminate'.
  5. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    'Augment' opposes 'allay'.
Each line is one entry's pairing. Source: English Synonyms and Antonyms, Fernald (1896), public domain.

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