English II Quiz 1: 27 October 2024 (September 2024 term)

Read the speech segment given below and fill in the blanks with the appropriate discourse markers. Observe the tone and the punctuation of the passage and choose only the most fitting answer for every blank.
Roald Dahl Interviewed by Mavis Nicholson
Mavis Nicholson: Is it easier to write for adults than it is to write for children? Because you’ve done both successfully.
Roald Dahl: [i] _____, it’s much harder to write for children. If we’re talking about high quality– top grade– the equivalent of Graham Greene’s quality in children’s books, it’s harder to do it for children.
MN: Why?
RD: I don’t know why. The obvious answer, [ii] _____, is that children have less concentration. It’s harder to hold them to the page. They’re easily distracted. But, the other, real reason it’s hard is that by the time you’re old enough to be skillful enough to write a book– adult or children’s– you’re an adult, and you’ve forgotten what it’s like to be a child, and that’s the real problem, and if a seven year old had the skill of being able to write beautifully, superbly, and conjure up a plot, that would be the one to do it, because they know exactly…
MN: [iii] _____, how do you reckon you’ve kept in touch with a child’s mind?
RD: Oh it’s some sort of pure luck, you know, to be able to throw yourself back into this. I think you’ve got to be a bit of an ass in a way, you’ve got to be a giggler. . . . There’s not many fellows of 66 who rock with laughter at knock-knock jokes and things like that and other childish things. [iv] _____, most people, male or female, by that age, or even by 40 or 50, become pretty serious and moderately pompous. And that’s no good, is it?
MN: Well, saddened…saddened by life, maybe? You could have been, but you [v] _____ don’t seem to be.
Transcribed from: “Roald Dahl interview | Children's Author | A plus 4 | 1984.”

Fill in blank [i] with the most fitting discourse marker among the options given below.

Read the speech segment given below and fill in the blanks with the appropriate discourse markers. Observe the tone and the punctuation of the passage and choose only the most fitting answer for every blank.
Roald Dahl Interviewed by Mavis Nicholson
Mavis Nicholson: Is it easier to write for adults than it is to write for children? Because you’ve done both successfully.
Roald Dahl: [i] _____, it’s much harder to write for children. If we’re talking about high quality– top grade– the equivalent of Graham Greene’s quality in children’s books, it’s harder to do it for children.
MN: Why?
RD: I don’t know why. The obvious answer, [ii] _____, is that children have less concentration. It’s harder to hold them to the page. They’re easily distracted. But, the other, real reason it’s hard is that by the time you’re old enough to be skillful enough to write a book– adult or children’s– you’re an adult, and you’ve forgotten what it’s like to be a child, and that’s the real problem, and if a seven year old had the skill of being able to write beautifully, superbly, and conjure up a plot, that would be the one to do it, because they know exactly…
MN: [iii] _____, how do you reckon you’ve kept in touch with a child’s mind?
RD: Oh it’s some sort of pure luck, you know, to be able to throw yourself back into this. I think you’ve got to be a bit of an ass in a way, you’ve got to be a giggler. . . . There’s not many fellows of 66 who rock with laughter at knock-knock jokes and things like that and other childish things. [iv] _____, most people, male or female, by that age, or even by 40 or 50, become pretty serious and moderately pompous. And that’s no good, is it?
MN: Well, saddened…saddened by life, maybe? You could have been, but you [v] _____ don’t seem to be.
Transcribed from: “Roald Dahl interview | Children's Author | A plus 4 | 1984.”

Fill in blank [ii] with the most fitting discourse marker among the options given below.

Read the speech segment given below and fill in the blanks with the appropriate discourse markers. Observe the tone and the punctuation of the passage and choose only the most fitting answer for every blank.
Roald Dahl Interviewed by Mavis Nicholson
Mavis Nicholson: Is it easier to write for adults than it is to write for children? Because you’ve done both successfully.
Roald Dahl: [i] _____, it’s much harder to write for children. If we’re talking about high quality– top grade– the equivalent of Graham Greene’s quality in children’s books, it’s harder to do it for children.
MN: Why?
RD: I don’t know why. The obvious answer, [ii] _____, is that children have less concentration. It’s harder to hold them to the page. They’re easily distracted. But, the other, real reason it’s hard is that by the time you’re old enough to be skillful enough to write a book– adult or children’s– you’re an adult, and you’ve forgotten what it’s like to be a child, and that’s the real problem, and if a seven year old had the skill of being able to write beautifully, superbly, and conjure up a plot, that would be the one to do it, because they know exactly…
MN: [iii] _____, how do you reckon you’ve kept in touch with a child’s mind?
RD: Oh it’s some sort of pure luck, you know, to be able to throw yourself back into this. I think you’ve got to be a bit of an ass in a way, you’ve got to be a giggler. . . . There’s not many fellows of 66 who rock with laughter at knock-knock jokes and things like that and other childish things. [iv] _____, most people, male or female, by that age, or even by 40 or 50, become pretty serious and moderately pompous. And that’s no good, is it?
MN: Well, saddened…saddened by life, maybe? You could have been, but you [v] _____ don’t seem to be.
Transcribed from: “Roald Dahl interview | Children's Author | A plus 4 | 1984.”

Fill in blank [iii] with the most fitting discourse marker among the options given below.

Read the speech segment given below and fill in the blanks with the appropriate discourse markers. Observe the tone and the punctuation of the passage and choose only the most fitting answer for every blank.
Roald Dahl Interviewed by Mavis Nicholson
Mavis Nicholson: Is it easier to write for adults than it is to write for children? Because you’ve done both successfully.
Roald Dahl: [i] _____, it’s much harder to write for children. If we’re talking about high quality– top grade– the equivalent of Graham Greene’s quality in children’s books, it’s harder to do it for children.
MN: Why?
RD: I don’t know why. The obvious answer, [ii] _____, is that children have less concentration. It’s harder to hold them to the page. They’re easily distracted. But, the other, real reason it’s hard is that by the time you’re old enough to be skillful enough to write a book– adult or children’s– you’re an adult, and you’ve forgotten what it’s like to be a child, and that’s the real problem, and if a seven year old had the skill of being able to write beautifully, superbly, and conjure up a plot, that would be the one to do it, because they know exactly…
MN: [iii] _____, how do you reckon you’ve kept in touch with a child’s mind?
RD: Oh it’s some sort of pure luck, you know, to be able to throw yourself back into this. I think you’ve got to be a bit of an ass in a way, you’ve got to be a giggler. . . . There’s not many fellows of 66 who rock with laughter at knock-knock jokes and things like that and other childish things. [iv] _____, most people, male or female, by that age, or even by 40 or 50, become pretty serious and moderately pompous. And that’s no good, is it?
MN: Well, saddened…saddened by life, maybe? You could have been, but you [v] _____ don’t seem to be.
Transcribed from: “Roald Dahl interview | Children's Author | A plus 4 | 1984.”

Fill in blank [iv] with the most fitting discourse marker among the options given below.

Read the speech segment given below and fill in the blanks with the appropriate discourse markers. Observe the tone and the punctuation of the passage and choose only the most fitting answer for every blank.
Roald Dahl Interviewed by Mavis Nicholson
Mavis Nicholson: Is it easier to write for adults than it is to write for children? Because you’ve done both successfully.
Roald Dahl: [i] _____, it’s much harder to write for children. If we’re talking about high quality– top grade– the equivalent of Graham Greene’s quality in children’s books, it’s harder to do it for children.
MN: Why?
RD: I don’t know why. The obvious answer, [ii] _____, is that children have less concentration. It’s harder to hold them to the page. They’re easily distracted. But, the other, real reason it’s hard is that by the time you’re old enough to be skillful enough to write a book– adult or children’s– you’re an adult, and you’ve forgotten what it’s like to be a child, and that’s the real problem, and if a seven year old had the skill of being able to write beautifully, superbly, and conjure up a plot, that would be the one to do it, because they know exactly…
MN: [iii] _____, how do you reckon you’ve kept in touch with a child’s mind?
RD: Oh it’s some sort of pure luck, you know, to be able to throw yourself back into this. I think you’ve got to be a bit of an ass in a way, you’ve got to be a giggler. . . . There’s not many fellows of 66 who rock with laughter at knock-knock jokes and things like that and other childish things. [iv] _____, most people, male or female, by that age, or even by 40 or 50, become pretty serious and moderately pompous. And that’s no good, is it?
MN: Well, saddened…saddened by life, maybe? You could have been, but you [v] _____ don’t seem to be.
Transcribed from: “Roald Dahl interview | Children's Author | A plus 4 | 1984.”

Fill in blank [v] with the most fitting discourse marker among the options given below.

Given below is an excerpt from an essay written by Henry David Thoreau. Read the excerpt and answer the given subquestions.
“I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe--"That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. The standing army is only an arm of the standing government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it. Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for in the outset, the people would not have consented to this measure.
This American government--what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will. It is a sort of wooden gun to the people themselves. But it is not the less necessary for this; for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have. Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed upon, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. It is excellent, we must all allow. Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate. The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way. For government is an expedient, by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and, as has been said, when it is most expedient, the governed are most let alone by it. Trade and commerce, if they were not made of india-rubber, would never manage to bounce over obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way; and if one were to judge these men wholly by the effects of their actions and not partly by their intentions, they would deserve to be classed and punished with those mischievous persons who put obstructions on the railroads.
But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it. After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest.
But a government in which the majority rule, in all cases, can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. Can there not be a government in which the majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?--in which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable? Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience. Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice. A common and natural result of an undue respect for the law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart. They have no doubt that it is a damnable business in which they are concerned; they are all peaceably inclined. Now,what are they? Men at all? or small movable forts and magazines, at the service of some unscrupulous man in power?”

Which of the following is not an adverb used by the essayist in the first paragraph to influence the reader?

Given below is an excerpt from an essay written by Henry David Thoreau. Read the excerpt and answer the given subquestions.
“I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe--"That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. The standing army is only an arm of the standing government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it. Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for in the outset, the people would not have consented to this measure.
This American government--what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will. It is a sort of wooden gun to the people themselves. But it is not the less necessary for this; for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have. Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed upon, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. It is excellent, we must all allow. Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate. The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way. For government is an expedient, by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and, as has been said, when it is most expedient, the governed are most let alone by it. Trade and commerce, if they were not made of india-rubber, would never manage to bounce over obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way; and if one were to judge these men wholly by the effects of their actions and not partly by their intentions, they would deserve to be classed and punished with those mischievous persons who put obstructions on the railroads.
But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it. After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest.
But a government in which the majority rule, in all cases, can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. Can there not be a government in which the majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?--in which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable? Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience. Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice. A common and natural result of an undue respect for the law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart. They have no doubt that it is a damnable business in which they are concerned; they are all peaceably inclined. Now,what are they? Men at all? or small movable forts and magazines, at the service of some unscrupulous man in power?”

Given below are combinations of words used by the essayist to influence and persuade the reader’s viewpoint. Match the adverb/adjective with the word that it describes.

Given below is an excerpt from an essay written by Henry David Thoreau. Read the excerpt and answer the given subquestions.
“I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe--"That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. The standing army is only an arm of the standing government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it. Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for in the outset, the people would not have consented to this measure.
This American government--what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will. It is a sort of wooden gun to the people themselves. But it is not the less necessary for this; for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have. Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed upon, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. It is excellent, we must all allow. Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate. The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way. For government is an expedient, by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and, as has been said, when it is most expedient, the governed are most let alone by it. Trade and commerce, if they were not made of india-rubber, would never manage to bounce over obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way; and if one were to judge these men wholly by the effects of their actions and not partly by their intentions, they would deserve to be classed and punished with those mischievous persons who put obstructions on the railroads.
But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it. After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest.
But a government in which the majority rule, in all cases, can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. Can there not be a government in which the majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?--in which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable? Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience. Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice. A common and natural result of an undue respect for the law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart. They have no doubt that it is a damnable business in which they are concerned; they are all peaceably inclined. Now,what are they? Men at all? or small movable forts and magazines, at the service of some unscrupulous man in power?”

Which of the following is NOT a verb-adverb or adverb-verb combination used by the essayist to influence the reader?

Given below is an excerpt from an essay written by Henry David Thoreau. Read the excerpt and answer the given subquestions.
“I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe--"That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. The standing army is only an arm of the standing government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it. Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for in the outset, the people would not have consented to this measure.
This American government--what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will. It is a sort of wooden gun to the people themselves. But it is not the less necessary for this; for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have. Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed upon, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. It is excellent, we must all allow. Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate. The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way. For government is an expedient, by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and, as has been said, when it is most expedient, the governed are most let alone by it. Trade and commerce, if they were not made of india-rubber, would never manage to bounce over obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way; and if one were to judge these men wholly by the effects of their actions and not partly by their intentions, they would deserve to be classed and punished with those mischievous persons who put obstructions on the railroads.
But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it. After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest.
But a government in which the majority rule, in all cases, can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. Can there not be a government in which the majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?--in which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable? Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience. Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice. A common and natural result of an undue respect for the law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart. They have no doubt that it is a damnable business in which they are concerned; they are all peaceably inclined. Now,what are they? Men at all? or small movable forts and magazines, at the service of some unscrupulous man in power?”

Which of the following is not an adjective-noun combination used by the essayist to influence the reader?

Given below is an excerpt from an essay written by Henry David Thoreau. Read the excerpt and answer the given subquestions.
“I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe--"That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. The standing army is only an arm of the standing government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it. Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for in the outset, the people would not have consented to this measure.
This American government--what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will. It is a sort of wooden gun to the people themselves. But it is not the less necessary for this; for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have. Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed upon, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. It is excellent, we must all allow. Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate. The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way. For government is an expedient, by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and, as has been said, when it is most expedient, the governed are most let alone by it. Trade and commerce, if they were not made of india-rubber, would never manage to bounce over obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way; and if one were to judge these men wholly by the effects of their actions and not partly by their intentions, they would deserve to be classed and punished with those mischievous persons who put obstructions on the railroads.
But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it. After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest.
But a government in which the majority rule, in all cases, can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. Can there not be a government in which the majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?--in which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable? Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience. Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice. A common and natural result of an undue respect for the law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart. They have no doubt that it is a damnable business in which they are concerned; they are all peaceably inclined. Now,what are they? Men at all? or small movable forts and magazines, at the service of some unscrupulous man in power?”

Consider the italicized words/phrases used by the essayist in the following sentences to influence the reader. Choose the option that correctly classifies the italicized words/phrases.
● Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are (i) usually, and all governments are (ii) sometimes, inexpedient.
● (iii) After all , the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest.
● This American government--what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself (iv) unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? ● It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of (v) conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

“He was playing cricket.” If the stress is on ‘he’

‘The sun rises in the east.’ This sentence would ordinarily be spoken in a ______.

Telling a rude customer to ‘have a nice day’ is an example of irony. This statement is ___.

‘Blind as a bat’ is an example of ______.

‘His peculiarity became at length intolerable to those whose minds lent themselves readily to suspicion.’
The word in italics in the given sentence is:

Spot the error in the given sentence.
‘Certainly she had met with disappointment at the beginning of her own career.’

Adverbs that indicate judgment of someone’s action are called ___.

Read the following sentence and identify how many adverbial phrases of place are in it. ‘Finally, I walked toward my car, parked near the whistling pine trees.’

‘The tree stumps had been worn smooth and comfortable by years of use.’
The phrase in italics is an _____.

Identify the adverb in the following sentence.
Eventually, something broke.

Identify the adverb in the following sentence.
My cousin has been my friend since childhood.

Identify the degree adverb/adverbs in the given sentence.
She must really be made to tell.

‘Very’ is used ____.

Consider the following sentences and spot the ones in which degree adverbs are used correctly. i. I spent many days there quite undisturbed
ii. There was something quite charming in his appearance
iii. I returned, with my interest quite awakened

Virat Kohli’s performance was ___ disappointing.

Complete the following sentence with the appropriate degree adverb.
The movie was _________entertaining.

Choose the most grammatically correct sentence.

In the following sentence, identify the nature of the adjective. The adjectives are underlined. Racewalking is faster than normal walking.

Identify the adjective from the following sentence.
It is a yellow dress.

Spot the adjective from the following options.

In the sentence ‘Tramps and vagabonds have been making marks on our gatepost’, what is the perfective marker?

In the sentence ‘The black cat had been living in an old cat bed that one of the children had found for him’, the combination of ‘been’ and the suffix -ing added to the verb ‘live’ indicates:

"He studied hard for the test, so he scored well."
This sentence is of the type:

‘The contract will be issued by the government.’ In this sentence, the verb 'will be issued' will change to ________ when converted to active voice.

John still believed that his team could win the match. Here the noun clause functions as a ___.

The clause “what she said” in the sentence "I heard what she said" is a _____.

Identify the adjectival clause in the following sentence and the noun it modifies.
After finishing her homework, which took several hours, she rewarded herself with a relaxing bubble bath.

My dog, who is very friendly, loves to play around with me is a compound sentence.

Identify the adjunct in the following sentence.
John quickly ate his breakfast.

State whether the underlined are adjunct or complement.
I completely forgot about his arrival.