English Unit 5 Test : Verbs Name:

Date:

Circle the Action Verbs.

1. A small circus visited us in June, 2. Go to the circus next week,

3. My best friend Collects posters, 4. A poster hangs on her door,

Underline the verb phrase and circle the helping verb.

1, Giant Pandas could become extinct. 2. Bamboo is growing scarce.

3. Pandas can stay healthy, 4. They will eat large amounts of bamboo,

Underline the action verb and circle the direct object,

1. The cave has many visitors,

2. You can see colors in the cave.

3. Carla read the details with interest, 4. They have three large levels,

In which sentence is the action arrow pointing to the receiver of the action? a. sentence: hawkeye tracked the deer through the forest. an arrow, pointing to the left, is drawn above the verb 'tracked'. b. sentence: hawkeye tracked the deer through the forest. an arrow, pointing to the right, is drawn above the verb 'tracked'.

True or false: a writer uses ellipses to indicate an omission or that something has been left out of a direct quote.

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.