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Please read the following paragraph:
"In the end, of course, Cicero had prevailed. They had rounded up the
alleged conspirators (Including Marc Antony's father) and strangled them
to death without a trial. Many disagreed and their anger eventually led
to Cicero's exile for sixteen months. This man was brought back,
however, and by the time of his death, Cicero will have angered many
other Romans, and someone else in particular, with his speeches in the
Forum. This person is Caesar Augustus."
Line 1:
1. What tense is had prevailed?
2. What is they?
3. What is alleged?
Line 2:
4. What case and number is conspirators?
5. What case is Marc Antony's?
6. What kind of noun is Marc Antony's?
7. What is and?
Line 3:
8. What case is many?
9. Disagreed is a past tense verb - what is another was to write this?
10. What is eventually? Hint: What is it describing?
11. What is This?
Line 4:
12. What is the antecedent of his?
13. What tense is will have angered?
14. What is other?
15. What case is Romans?
16. What is someone?
17. What is in the Forum?
18. What case is Forum?
Line 5:
19. What kind of verb is is?
20. Is Caesar Augustus a Direct Object or a Peedicate Nominative?
Please read the following paragraph:
"Yes, that is a problem. How can we levy troops from the countryside if
there are no consuls to levy them. Someone other than consul will need
to levy them, of course. Fortunately, as a man who has been twice
elected consul and as the commander of the Roman troops in Spain, I have
both the necessary expertise to raise a militia here in Italy, and the
skill to deploy it in the most efficient manner to bring order to the
city."
Line 1:
1. What is that?
2. Is problem a Direct Object of a Predicate Nominative?
3. Why?
4. What is we?
5. What case is it?
6. What tense is levy?
Line 2:
7. What is someone?
8. What tense is will need to levy?
9. What is another way to writewill levy in the same tense?
10. What is who in this sentence?
11. What is its antecedent?
Line 4:
12. What case is troops?
13. What is Roman?
14. What case is expertise?
15. What is to raise?
16. What tense is it?
17. What is in Italy?
18. What is it?
19. What is efficient?
20. What case is city?
Special thanks to Patrick Yaggy, University of Georgia
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