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a. Across the water, the trees and the hillside SS CS shone in the sunshine. b. In the sky over the cliff, the eagle SS CS turned in a slow loop while it peered down into the water. c. Diving suddenly, the eagle SS CS plunged toward the surface of the lake where it had seen the shadow of a fish.
a. In the morning when the mist still covers the water, the loons SS CS can be heard calling across the lake. b. Their high eerie laughing call SS CS echoes off the shoreline and marks the beginning of the day. c. When the mist finally clears, the sun, bright and strong SS CS , heats up the day quickly, and a slowness settles in.
a. Of the early poems set in Atlantic Canada, Sir Charles G.D. Roberts's "Tantramar Revisited" and Bliss Carman's "Low Tide on Grand Pré" are SP CP the best known. b. The ebb and flow of the tides in the Bay of Fundy are echoed by the movement in Roberts's poem. SP CP c. The broad flat stretch of Grand Pré's tidal flats is evident SP CP in Carman's poem.
a. The movement in the landscape is SP CP the most memorable part of Roberts's description. b. The tide is moving in and out SP CP , and the wind is constantly changing. SP CP c. The poem describes "the hands of chance and change" SP CP of the Tantramar ve
a. Lampman's poem has a stronger emotional tone. SP CP b. In his poem, Lampman describes the movement of a meandering river wending its way fretfully toward the Fundy shores. SP CP c. The end of the poem draws SP CP on the movement of the tide, though, and parallels SP CP the emotional current of the poem.
8. Select the sentence that contains an error identifying the direct object(DO), indirect object (IO), subject complement (SC), and object complement (OC). a. If you go to Halifax, you must see the Bluenose II DO IO SC OC . b. While you are in Halifax, you should also go up the hill away from the harbour and see the old town clock DO IO SC OC and Citadel Hill DO IO SC OC . c. Travel brochures call Citadel Hill DO IO SC OC superb, for, from the top of the hill, you get a good view DO IO SC OC of Halifax harbour.
9. Select the sentence that contains an error id).entifying simple sentences (SS), compound sentences (CdS), complex sentences (CxS), and compound-complex sentences(C-C). a. What is the origin of the name of our ten-cent piece, the dime? SS CdS CxS C-C b. Decimus, meaning one tenth, is the Latin word from which dime comes. SS CdS CxS C-C c. The dime and the quarter are unique to Canada and the United States, but the penny has its origins in the British pence. SS CdS CxS C-C
10. Select the sentence that contains an error identifying simple sentences (SS), compound sentences (CdS), complex sentences (CxS), and compound-complex sentences(C-C). a. With today's investment environment waning, some people may be going back to keeping their money in a sock under the bed; stocks do not have the glow on them that they did in the 1990's. SS CdS CxS C-C b. At the beginning of the 1990's, everyone thought that stocks and RRSPs were a wonderful way to make money. SS CdS CxS C-C c. By the beginning of the next century, though, people were beginning to see the folly of their ways. SS CdS CxS C-C
a. The classic case was Bell Canada, which owned a company named Nortel. SS CdS CxS C-C b. Bell stocks rose quickly in 1999 when electronic communications expanded exponentially, and Nortel was seen as the reason behind Bell's growing value. SS CdS CxS C-C c. When Bell split Nortel off, the newly independent Nortel stock rose dramatically. SS CdS CxS C-C
a. Then, in 2000, people watched in despair as Nortel's share price deteriorated rapidly; the boom was over. SS CdS CxS C-C b. Nortel shares dropped to one-tenth of their formal value. SS CdS CxS C-C c. The question that most people do not want to ask was whether or not anyone actually looked at the underlying value of the stock, or whether people who bought Nortel simply thought that the stock could do nothing but go up. SS CdS CxS C-C
a. The music rose to its height as the heroine jumped from the walls of the castle to her death. L P b. Walking slowly to the centre of the stage, bowing his head in sorrow, the tenor burst into the final aria of the opera. L P c. The audience broke into applause and jumped to their feet as the curtain descended to the stage with the last rumblings of the orchestra. L P
a. Sniffing to the right, sniffing to the left, the dog meandered slowly along the pathway in front of them. L P (P) b. Up in the air, beyond where everyone normally looked, the swallow darted first this way and that. L P (P) c. In the evening, the bat took over the role of the swallow, swooping first low and then high catching insects along the path of its flight. L P (P)
