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2. Each , everyone, everybody, everyone, someone, somebody, anyone, anybody, nobody, no one,
either, and neither are singular. They take singular verbs.
Example:
a. Every loyal Filipino must do his share.
b. Nobody except juniors is admitted to the course.
c. Either of these two cars is a good bargain.
d. Neither my sweater nor your jacket is in the car.
e. Each, as far as I have been able to judge, has something to offer.
3. Dont get confused by the words that come between the subject and verb; they do not affect
agreement.
The dog, who is chewing on my jeans, is usually very good.
4. Prepositional phrases between the subject and verb usually do not affect agreement.
Example:
The colors of the rainbow are beautiful.
5. A. Singular subject s joined by or or nor require a singular verb.
Example: a. Neither my niece nor my nephew expects to go to Davao.
b. Either Mary or Jane is behind all this.
C. If two subjects connected by either or or neither nor differ in person or number the verb agrees
with the nearer subject.
Example:
a. Either the workers or the owner is responsible. responsible.
b. Either the owner or the workers are responsible.
c. Neither the midwife nor the twins are ready.
6. When sentences start with there or here, the subject will always be placed after the verb,
so care needs to be taken to identify it correctly.
Example: There is a problem with the balance sheet.
Here are the papers you requested.
7. Subjects dont always come before verbs in questions. Make sure you accurately identify the
subject before deciding on the proper verb form to use.
Examples: Does Lefty usually eat grass?
Where are the pieces of this puzzle.
8. Compound subjects joined by and normally require plural verbs.
Examples:
a. His coat and cap are lying on the bed.
b. A horse and a carabao are in the pasture.
c. The cow and the pig are jumping over the moon.
9. The verb is singular if the two subjects separated by and refer to the same person or thing.
Examples: Red beans and rice is my moms favorite dish.
Bread and butter is my breakfast.
10. Indefinite pronouns such as every, no, everybody, etc. typically take singular verbs.
Examples: Everybody wants to be loved.
No smoking or drinking is allowed.
Every man and woman is required to check in.
11. The only time when the object of the preposition factors into the decision of plural or singular
verb forms is when noun and pronoun subjects like some, half, none, more, all, etc. are followed
by a prepositional phrase. In these sentences, theobject of the preposition determines the form of
the verb.
Examples: All of the chicken is gone.
All of the chickens are gone.
12. The pronoun you even if it refers to one person require a plural verb.
Examples:
a. Mary, you were there last night.
b. Peter, are you going?
13. The singular verb form is usually used for units of measurement.
Example: Four quarts of oil was required to get the car running.
14. Nouns plural in form but singular in meaning take singular verbs , for example, politics,
economics, physics, mathematics.
Examples:
a. Ethics deal with problem of moral duty.
b. Physics is my favorite subject.
15. In there is and there are sentences, make the verb agree with the subject that follows it.
Examples:
a. There is too much noise in this room.
b. There were several good reasons for my decision.
14. When a relative pronoun is used as the subject of clause, the form of the verb is determined
by the antecedent of the pronoun, because the pronoun has the same person and number that the
antecedent has.
Examples:
a. I have met the woman who is on the program (womanis)
b. I have met the women who are on the program (womenare)
c. She is one of those girls who are never on time (girlswere)
16. * Pronouns (few, many, several, both, all, some) always take the plural form.
Example:Few were left alive after the flood.
17. If two infinitives are separated by and they take the plural form of the verb.
Example: To walk and to chew gum require great skill.
18. When gerunds are used as the subject of a sentence they take the singular verb form of the
verb, but when they are linked by and they take the plural form.
Example: Standing in the water was a bad idea.Swimming in the ocean and playing drums are
my hobbies.
19. A collective noun is considered singular when the group is regarded as a unit; it is plural
when the emphasis is upon the individuals of the group. A plural noun of amount , distance etc.,
takes a singular verb when the subject is used as a unit of measurement .
sample mass noun: committee ,jury ,band
Example:
a. The class is orderly.
b. The class are divided on their plan to go to Baguio.
c. Twenty pesos is too much to pay for a hand kerchief.
d. Thirty kilometers is a good days ride.
e. The herd is stampeding.
20. Titles of books, movies, novels, etc. are treated as singular and take a singular verb.
The Burbs is a movie starring Tom Hanks.
21. Final Rule Remember, only the subject affects the verb!
QUIZ
Copy and paste this online quiz to word processor and email your work to this address
martha_aux@yahoo.com.ph. Your output shall be the basis of your work for the week.
Decide and underline which of the verbs within the parentheses is to the parentheses is the
correct one.
1. The committee (has, have) finished their report.
2. Thirty pesos (is, are) too much to pay for a bag.
3. Not one of my physics problems (was, were) answered correctly.
4. Our dog, with her five puppies (sleeps, sleep) to the terrace.
5. You, who (is, are) outstanding teachers should represent us.
6. Only one of my nieces (was, were) late.
7. Your schedule of classes (are, is) posted on the bulletin board.
8. He says that nobody (is, are) to be admitted until three.
9. Either of your two suggestions (is, are) practical.
10. There (is, are) several more applicants to be interviewed.
11. Either of these two television sets (is, are) a good bargain.
12. The committee (has, have) finished its project.
13. There (seems, seem) to be some objections to the class members.
14. Neither my truck nor my tractors (is, are) running well.
15. A list of candidates for graduation (have, has) been distributed.
16. Not one of the incidental fees (were, was) collected during the registration.
17. Behind the kitchen (is, are) a bicycle and two plows.
18. Be sure there (is, are) no erasures of the thesis.
19. The marketing manager or his assistant (is, are) always on duty.
20. Neither my sister nor my brother (except, excepts)to go Switzerland.
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1. The children ________ (watch, watches, watched, are watching) the fishing boats scattered all
over the lake on moonlight nights.
2. After spending two weeks in the islands, the tourists _______ (go, went, going ) home
carrying in their minds a beautiful picture which _____ (be, are, is ) both inspiring and
ennobling.
3. During our visit to Tagaytay we ____ (go, went, goes ) to a point where we ____ (have, had,
has) a good view of Taal Volcano which ____ (be, is, are) several feet below sea level.
4. During sunsets the lake _____ (appear, appears, will appear, appeared) peaceful.
5. As I _____ (lie, lay, lying, lied) awake in the dark last night, I ______ (realize, realizing, will
realize, realized) how necessary light (be, is, are) _____.
6. Many visitors ______ (go, goes, went) up to Baguio in summer.
7. The city government _______ (collect, collects, will collect, collected) higher taxes stating
next month.
8. Laguna Bay _______ (abound, abounds, abounded) in fish.
9. We _____ (meet, met, will meet) again and when that time ______ (come, comes, will come) I
_____ (hope, hopes, will hope) to see you more charming, less impetuous, and more of a lady
than you _______ (be, is, are) now.
10. Before you ______ ( leave, will leave, left) tell us what you ______ (do, did, done) with
yourself in the United States.
11. Silas Marner is the story of a weaver who ______ (lose, lost, loss) his faith in man and God.
12. James Watt _______ (discover, discovers, discovered) that steam ______ (have, has, had)
power.
13. When my great grandmother _______ (is, are, was) in elementary school her teacher in
English ____ (be, is, was, were) an American, but now there ______ (were, are, is, was) few
American teachers in the school system.
14. We ______ (are, is, was, were) told that London fog _____ (last, lasts, lasted) hours and
hours.
15. In our Biology class yesterday, our teacher______ (show, shows, showed) us how much
nitrogen there _____ (is, are, were, was) in air.
16. Our experiment yesterday ______ (proved, prove, proves) that oxygen ______ (support,
supports, supported) combustion.
17. Last week a marketing agent _____ (come, comes, came) to persuade my sister to buy a
portable sewing machine.
18. The lecturer in our science class last week _______ (gives, gave, give) two proofs that air
______ (occupy, occupies, occupied) space.
19. The other day we _____ ( conduct, conducted, conducts) and experiment to prove that air
(exert, exerts, exerted) pressure.
20. Each one of us (need, needs) more application and concentration.
21. The Indonesian softball team (was, were) beaten by the Philippine team by a score of seven
to four.
22. One of his tonsils ( was, were) removed.
23. Not one of the party (was, were) injured in the explosion.
24. The audience (is, are) leaving one at a time now.
25. The audience in todays conference (is, are) big.
VERBS
A verb is often defined as a word which shows action or state of being. The verb is the heart of a
sentence every sentence must have a verb. Recognizing the verb is often the most important
step in understanding the meaning of a sentence. In the sentence The dog bit the man, bit is the
verb and the word which shows the action of the sentence. In the sentence The man is sitting on a
chair, even though the action doesnt show much activity, sitting is the verb of the sentence. In
the sentence She is a smart girl, there is no action but a state of being expressed by the verb is.
The word be is different from other verbs in many ways but can still be thought of as a verb.
Unlike most of the other parts of speech, verbs change their form. Sometimes endings are added
(learn learned) and sometimes the word itself becomes different (teach-taught). The different
forms of verbs show different meanings related to such things as tense (past, present, future),
person (first person, second person, third person), number (singular, plural) and voice(active,
passive). Verbs are also often accompanied by verb-like words called modals (may, could,
should, etc.) and auxiliaries(do, have, will, etc.) to give them different meanings.
One of the most important things about verbs is their relationship to time. Verbs tell if something
has already happened, if it will happen later, or if it is happening now. For things happening now,
we use the present tense of a verb; for something that has already happened, we use the past
tense; and for something that will happen later, we use the future tense. Some examples of verbs
in each tense are in the chart below:
Present
Past
Future
Verbs like those in the chart above that form the past tense by adding -d or -ed are called regular
verbs. Some of the most common verbs are not regular and the different forms of the verb must
be learned. Some examples of such irregular verbs are in the chart below:
Present
see
hear
speak
Past
saw
heard
spoke
Future
will see
will hear
will speak
The charts above show the simple tenses of the verbs. There are also progressive or continuous
forms which show that the action takes place over a period of time, and perfect forms which
show completion of the action. These forms will be discussed more in other lessons, but a few
examples are given in the chart below:
Present Continuous - Present Perfect
is looking has looked
is speaking has spoken
is talking has talked
Simple present tense verbs have a special form for the third person singular. Singular means
one and plural means more than one. Person is used here to show who or what does the
action and can have the following forms:
1st person or the self (I, we)
2nd person or the person spoken to (you)
3rd person or a person not present (he, she, it, they)
The third person singular forms are represented by the pronouns he, she, it. The chart below
shows how the third person singular verb form changes:
Singular -Plural
1st Person (I) see -1st Person (we) -see
hear -hear
come -come
2nd Person (you) see 2nd Person (you) -see
hear -hear
come -come
3rd Person (he, she, it) 3rd Person (they)
sees -see
hears -hear
comes -come
A verb must agree with its subject. Subject-verb agreement generally means that the third
person singular verb form must be used with a third person subject in the simple present tense.
The word be the most irregular and also most common verb in English has different forms
for each person and even for the simple past tense. The forms of the word be are given in the
chart below:
Number - Person Present - Past - Future
Singular- 1st (I) am was will be
- 2nd (you) are were will be
- 3rd (he, she, it)- is was will be
Plural - 1st (we) are were will be
- 2nd (you) are were will be
- 3rd (they) are were will be
Usually a subject comes before a verb and an object may come after it. The subject is what does
the action of the verb and the object is what receives the action. In the sentence Bob ate a
humburger, Bob is the subject or the one who did the eating and the hamburger is the object or
what got eaten. A verb which has an object is called a transitive verb and some examples are
throw, buy, hit, love. A verb which has no object is called an intransitive verb and some examples
are go, come, walk, listen.
As you can see in the charts above, verbs are often made up of more than one word. The future
forms, for example, use the word will and the perfect forms use the word have. These words are
called helping or auxiliary verbs. The word be can serve as an auxiliary and will and shall are
also auxiliary forms. The chart below shows two other verbs which can also be used as
auxiliaries:
Number Person Present Past
Singular 1st (I) have had
do did
2nd (you) have had
do did
3rd (he, she, it)
has had
does did
Plural 1st (we) have had
do did
2nd (you) have had
do did
3rd (they) have had
do did
QUIZ:
NAME:_________________________________ YR/COURSE:______________
DATE:_______
Encircle your answer on the following questions:
1. Which is not a past form of the verb?
was hear had looked spoke
2) Which is not a present form of a verb?
are speak saw has talk
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VERB TENSES 1
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SIMPLE TENSES
A. PRESENT TENSE
The PRESENT TENSE indicates that an action is present, now, relative to the speaker or writer.
Generally, it is used to describe actions that are factual or habitual things that occur in the
present but that are not necessarily happening right now: It rains a lot in Tagkawayan is a kind
of timeless statement. Compare that to the present progressive It is raining in Tagkawayan
which means that something is, in fact, going on right now.
* The present tense is used to describe events that are scheduled (by nature or by people): High
tide is at 3:15 p.m. The Philippine All-Star Basketball game starts at 6:15 p.m.
* The present tense can be used to suggest the past with what is sometimes called the fictional
(or historic) present: We were watching the back door when, all of a sudden, in walks Dierdre.
* With verbs of communicating, the present tense can also suggest a past action: Shiela tellsme
that she took her brother to the dentist.
* Most oddly, the present tense can convey a sense of the future, especially with verbs such as
arrive, come, and leave that suggest a kind of plan or schedule: The train from Bicol arrivesthis
afternoon at two oclock.
Singular Plural
I walk we walk
you walk you walk
he/she/it walks they walk
Singular Plural
I am we are
you are you are
he/she/it is they are
Examples:
I walk to work every day.
The Talk N Text team sometimes practices in this gymnasium.
Dr. Santos operates according to her own schedule.
Coach Freddie Roach recruits from countries outside the U.S.A.
Ivee tells me she has committed to Alex.
We work really hard to make this a success, and then look what happens.
Every time that kid finishes a sandcastle, the waves come in and wash it away.
The shipment arrives tomorrow at 2 p.m.
B. PAST TENSE
The PAST TENSE indicates that an action is in the past relative to the speaker or writer.
* when the time period has finished: We went to Manila last Christmas.
* when the time period is definite: We visited Grandmother last week.
* with for, when the action is finished: I worked with the PNP for two months.
Regular verbs use the verbs base form (scream, work) plus the -ed ending (screamed, worked).
Irregular verbs alter their form in some other way (slept, drank, drove).
Singular - Plural
I walked - we walked
you walked - you walked
he/she/it walked- they walked
Singular Plural
I slept - we slept
you slept you slept
he/she/it slept they slept
Singular Plural
I was we were
you were you were
he/she/it was they were
Examples:
When I was a girl, I walked five miles to school every day.
Carmelita slept through the entire class.
We worked really hard to make this a success, but then Jack ruined it with his carelessness.
Every time I finished a sandcastle, the waves came in and washed it away.
Tarzan dove into the swamp and swam toward the alligator.
C. FUTURE TENSE
The FUTURE TENSE indicates that an action is in the future relative to the speaker or writer.
There are no inflected forms for the future in English (nothing like those -ed or -s endings in the
other tenses). Instead, the future tense employs the helping verbs will or shall with the base form
of the verb:
- She will leave soon.
- We shall overcome.
* The future is also formed with the use of a form of go plus the infinitive of the verb:
- He is going to faint.
* English can even use the present to suggest the future tense:
- I am leaving later today.
*Note that the auxiliary will can be combined with be and a progressive form of the main verb
to create a sense of the future that does not harbor any hint of insistence (which is possible with
the auxiliary alone). For instance, if stress is placed on the word will in When will you
arrive?, the sentence can sound impatient, insistent. In When will you be arriving? there is
less of that emotional overtone.
The construction form of to be + infinitive is used to convey a sense of planning for the future,
command, or contingency.
- There is to be an investigation into the mayors business affairs.
- You are to be back on the base by midnight.
- If he is to pass this exam, hell have to study harder.
* To create a sense of imminent fulfillment, the word about can be combined with the infinitive.
- He is about to die.
* Other adverbs can be used in similar constructions with various effects:
- He is liable to get in trouble.
- She is certain to do well in college.
Singular Plural
I will walk we will walk
you will walk you will walk
he/she/it will walk they will walk
Singular Plural
I will sleep we will sleep
you will sleep you will sleep
he/she/it will sleep they will sleep
Singular Plural
I will be we will be
you will be you will be
he/she/it will be - they will be
Examples:
We will be victorious!
We shall overcome.
We are going to win this race.
The bus arrives at three this afternoon.
The boss is announcing his retirement at todays meeting.
QUIZ:
Copy the sentences below to Microsoft Word Processor. Underline the correct verb tense for
each sentence and send your output to this email address ( martha_aux@yahoo.com.ph) Your
output should be emailed to this day only (09-29-11).
1. I (goed, gone, went) to the mall after class.
2. What (do, were, did) you eat for lunch yesterday?
3. I (studying, studied, study) English for two years.
4. (Are, Did, Do) you see Jacks cat yesterday.
5. Sorry, I (wasnt, didnt, am not) hear you at the door.
6. We (was, did, were) not happy after the sad ending.
7. (Was, Were, Are) Kate and Alice at the meeting last month?
8. Zaq did not (work, worked, working) last weekend.
9. (Does, Did, Are) Joseph visit his girlfriend last night?
10. My brother (seen, saw, sees) a snake an hour ago.
11. We (do be, do are, are) Asian.
12. You (looks, are, be) so happy today!
13. Jessie (is, does, are) not go to my school.
14. (Is, Are, Am) I correct?
15. My parents (lives, live, are live) in a two-storey house.
16. Sorry, Zyke (am, is, be) not here at the moment.
17. It (are,is,am) a beautiful day today!
18. He (do, does, is) not want to come to parties.
19. (Is, Am, Are) we too late to catch the bus?
20. Do you (like, likes, is like) chocolate fudge?
*Fill in the spaces with the correct form of the verb in parentheses in simple future tense.
Example: : I am feeling homesick. I (go) will go home to visit my family.
Example: Steve, (wash) will you wash the car on Saturday?
21. I guess I (ride) _______ _______ the bus to save gas.
22. The cookies are all gone. (buy) _______ you _______ some, please?
23. Listen, team: we (win) _______ _______ the trophy this year!
24. Everyone is hungry. I (get) _______ _______ some doughnuts for breakfast.
25. Peter, (fix) _______ you _______ the porch tomorrow?
26. Becky, (go) _______ you _______ to Alaska with us this summer?
27. The house is dirty. I (clean) _______ ________ it on Monday.
28. Okay then, our group (meet) _______ ________ on Thursday.
29. Helga (hike) _______ you _______ with us on Friday?
30. If necessary, we (carry) _______ ________ the supplies in our car Saturday.
5 Votes
POSTMODERNISM
1946-1980s
Content:
people observe life as the media presents it, rather than experiencing life directly
popular culture saturates peoples lives
absurdity and coincidence
Genre/Style:
mixing of fantasy with nonfiction; blurs lines of reality for reader
no heroes
concern with individual in isolation
detached, unemotional
usually humorless
narratives
metafiction
present tense
magic realism
Effect:
erodes distinctions between classes of people
insists that values are not permanent but only local or historical
Historical Context:
post-World War II prosperity
media culture interprets values
Writers:
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
Saul Bellow The Adventures of Augie March and Herzog
J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye ; Nine Stories
Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar
Norman Mailer The Naked and the Dead (1948)
Joseph Heller Catch-22 (1961)
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
Walker Percy The Moviegoer (1962)
CONTEMPORARY PERIOD
(continuation of Postmodernism)
1980s-Present
Content:
identity politics
people learning to cope with problems through communication
peoples sense of identity is shaped by cultural and gender attitudes
emergence of ethnic writers and women writers
Style:
narratives: both fiction and nonfiction
anti-heroes
concern with connections between people
emotion-provoking
humorous irony
storytelling emphasized
autobiographical essays
Historical Context:
people beginning a new century and a new millennium
media culture interprets values
Writers:
John Updike Terrorist (2006)
Zadie Smith White Teeth (2000)
Philip Roth The Plot Against America (2005); Everyman (2006)
Toni Morrison Beloved (1987)
David Mitchell Ghostwritten (1999);Cloud Atlas (2004); number9dream (2001)
Ian McEwan First Love, Last Rites (1976); Atonement (2002); Saturday (2005)
Jonathan Franzen The Corrections (2001); The Discomfort Zone (2006)
Isabel Allende House of Spirits (1982)
Don DeLillo White Noise (1985)
Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay(2000)
Denis Johnson Tree of Smoke (2007)
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Literature
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15 Votes
5. The following taboo phrases were used by which writer? I fart at thee, shit on your head,
dirty bastard
a. Ernest Hemingway
b. Henry James
c. Ben Johnson
d. Arnold Bronte
6. In the book The Lord of the Rings, who or what is Bilbo Baggins?
a. man
b. hobbit
c. wizard
d. dwarf
7. Name the book which opens with the line All children, except one grew up?
a. The Jungle Book
b. Tom Sawyer
c. Peter Pan
d. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
9. Who was the author of the famous storybook Alices Adventures in Wonderland?
a. H.G. Wells
b. Lewis Carroll
c. Mark Twain
d. E.B. White
10. Cabbages and Kings (1904) is either a novel or a collection of related short stories
written by O. Henry. In it, he coined the phrase banana republic. On what was his title based?
a. Mark Twains The Prince and the Pauper
b. Alice Hegan Rices Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
c. The Shahnameh an 11th Century Persian epic poem
d. Lewis Carrolls poem The Walrus and the Carpenter
11. Two versions of Robert A. Heinleins novel Stranger in a Strange Land have been
published: the edited version first published in 1961 and the original full-length (60,000 words
longer) published posthumously in 1991. From what does the title derive?
a. The play Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
b. The Old Testament Book of Exodus
c. The novel Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift
d. The book Utopia by Sir Thomas More
12. Southern American poet, novelist and literary critic Robert Penn Warren wrote All the
Kings Men in 1946. The novel won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. On what is the books
title based?
a. A verse in the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty
b. William Shakespeares play Richard III
c. Oscar Wildes short story The Young King
d. Joyce Kilmers poem Kings
13. Which novel, eventually published in 1945, was rejected by a New York publisher stating it
is impossible to sell animal stories in the USA?
a. Animal Farm
b. Black Beauty
c. Watership Down
d. The Tale of Peter Rabbit
14. Which writer of spy fiction, and creator of Smiley, was rejected with the words you are
welcome to **** he hasnt got any future?
a. Ian Fleming
b. John le Carr
c. Eric Ambler
d. Len Deighton
15. The Good Earth was rejected fourteen times, before being published and going on to win
the Pulitzer Prize. Who was the author?
a. Pearl S. Buck
b. John Steinbeck
c. Edith Wharton
d. Henry Miller
16. Irving Stones Lust for Life was rejected sixteen times, with one rejection stating a long,
dull, novel about an artist. Which artist did the book feature?
a. Sigmund Freud
b. John Noble
c. Michelangelo
d. Vincent Van Gogh
17. Who is presented as the most honest and moral of Chaucers pilgrims?
a. The Knight
b. The Parson
c. The Reeve
d. The Wife of Bath
18. Out of the following four pilgrims, which is the most corrupt?
a. The Sergeant /Man of Law
b. The Wife of Bath
c. The Reeve
d. The Pardoner
20. What work contains these lines: There hurls in at the hall-door an unknown rider . . . Half a
giant on earth I hold him to be.
a. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
b. Morte Darthur
c. Piers Plowman
d. Canterbury Tales
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______________________________
2. D Scottish Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and
travel writer. His best-known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr
Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
3. A Charlotte Charlottes Jane Eyre was the first to know success, while Emilys Wuthering
Heights, Annes The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and other works were later to be accepted as
masterpieces of literature. Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote a variety
of romantic, devotional, and childrens poems. She is best known for her long poem Goblin
Market, her love poem Remember, and for the words of the Christmas carol In the Bleak
Midwinter.
5. C Ben Johnson
6. B hobbit Bilbo Baggins is the protagonist and titular character of The Hobbit and a
supporting character in The Lord of the Rings, two of the most well-known of J. R. R. Tolkiens
fantasy writings.
7. C Peter Pan Peter Pan is a character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M.
Barrie (18601937). A mischievous boy who can fly and magically refuses to grow up, Peter Pan
spends his never-ending childhood adventuring on the small island of Neverland as the leader of
his gang the Lost Boys, interacting with mermaids, Indians, fairies, pirates, and (from time to
time) meeting ordinary children from the world outside.
8. C 14 The term sonnet derives from the Occitan word sonet and the Italian word sonetto,
both meaning little song or little sound. By the thirteenth century, it had come to signify a
poem of fourteen lines that follows a strict rhyme scheme and specific structure.
9. B Lewis Carroll Some of H.G. Wells works are The Time Machine, The Island of
Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds. He is also known as the
Father of Science Fiction. Mark Twain is most popular in his Tom Sawyer and The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. E.B. White is well known of her novel Charlottes Web.
11. B The Old Testament Book of Exodus Moses fled Egypt and married Zipporah. And she
bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a
strange land. Exodus 2:22 Authorized (King James) Version.
12. A A verse in the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty Robert Penn Warren is the only
person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry. A commemorative postage stamp
was issued in the United States in 2005 to honor the 100th anniversary of his birth. Stage plays,
television versions, several movies and even a grand opera have been based on Warrens novel.
13. A Animal Farm was written by George Orwell, and is a satire on revolution and the
corruption of power. One of the best known lines from it is all animals are equal, but some
animals are more equal than others. The rejection notice implies that the publisher did not
actually read the book or totally misunderstood it if he did. Watership Down was written by
Richard Adams and published in 1972. Anna Sewell wrote Black Beauty, which appeared in
1877 and Beatrix Potter was the author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit from 1902.
14. B John le Carr This was a rejection notice for The Spy Who Came in From the Cold,
which found another publisher in 1963. Le Carr had worked for both MI5 and MI6, the British
intelligence services, and left to become an author full time following the success of this novel.
Among Len Deightons novels are The Ipcress File and Eric Ambler wrote The Mask of
Dimitrios. Fleming, of course, is the creator of probably the most famous spy of all in James
Bond.
15. A Pearl S. Buck One rejection notice read I regret that the American public is not
interested in anything on China. The novel was published in 1931 and won the Pulitzer Prize
the following year. Pearl S Buck wrote numerous other novels, including East Wind, West Wind,
short stories, biographies and non-fiction works and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938.
16. D Vincent Van Gogh The book was published in 1934 and was so successful that it was
made into a film of the same name, starring Kirk Douglas, in 1956. Irving Stone also wrote
about all the other names given as options. Michelangelo was the subject of The Agony and the
Ecstasy, published in 1961 and also filmed, with Charlton Heston, in 1965. John Noble, an
American artist, was the subject of The Passionate Journey from 1949. Sigmund Freud, the
psychoanalyst, was covered in The Passions of the Mind in 1971.
17. B The Parson Despite the immorality that is apparent amongst the clergy, hope manifests
itself in the form of the Parson, who is presented as an almost Christ-like figure. Although
materially poor, he is spiritually empowered, for riche he was of both hooly thoght and
werk. Yet for every trap that Chaucers Parson has avoided, there are thousands that have
fallen into them, and in light of this, the goodness of Chaucers Parson only serves to heighten
the unruliness that is present in everybody else. For in the General Prologue he is the only
individual that completely measures up to the strict Christian ideal, which is something even the
Church itself does not.
18. D The Pardoner The Pardoner, is certainly presented as one of the most corrupt of all
Chaucers pilgrims (along with the Summoner), making both the person and the peple his
apes. His deception and feyned flaterye convinces simple folks to purchase his phoney relics.
He cheats and manipulates all that believe in the sanctity of the Church and the morality of those
that represent it, so much so, that Chaucer himself can find nothing good to say about him. For
thought He was in chirche a noble ecclesiaste, this is merely an act, for he would preche,
and wel affile his tonge for the sole purpose of of winning silver from the crowd.
19. D He also translated The Siege of Thebes. The Fall of Princes is based on another
work by Boccaccio. Lydgate is little known today, but in his own time he was nearly as renowned
as Chaucer.
20. A Sir Gawain and the Green Knight The author of this Arthurian tale is unknown, but he
is thought to have also written the poems Patience, Pearl, and Purity.
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