Adjective phrases and clauses
directions: read the sentences below. identify the underline portion of the sentence as a adjective
phrase or clause. circle your answer below.
1. my uncle told me a funny story about a mistake that he made at the hotel in paris.
adjective phrase or adjective clause
2. the clerk at the desk looked puzzled.
adjective phrase or adjective clause
3. the clerk thought my uncle wanted to wrap himself in a flag, which would not be very warm.
adjective phrase or adjective clause
4. the captain of the ship was a man named ramon, whom nestor knew from chile.
adjective phrase or adjective clause
5. he also spent a lot of time in prague, which is a city in the czech republic.
adjective phrase or adjective clause

Now you will do a special kind of problem. you will use the blue boxes below to put events of the story "the baby-sitter" in correct order. each blue box has seven sentences inside it. click the first blue box until you see the first thing that happened in the story. then go on to the next box and the next thing that happened. the last thing that happened should be in the last box. you may need to look back at the story to you remember. if you change your mind at any time while you are working the problem, you can return to a box and click to find a different sentence. when you are all finished, you will be able to read down the list of sentences and see all seven events from the story in the right order. mary jo began to read the alphabet book. mary jo couldn't move. mother asked mary jo to baby-sit. jimmy was very quiet. he had fallen asleep. jimmy to read the book. mother said, "you are a very good baby-sitter." mother picked up sleeping jimmy.

Around, blank character is one who changes and grows as a result of the conflict in the story.

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here? irony personification metaphor simile