Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 50:50 POLL PHONE-A-FRIEND Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Lifeline icons on the question slides are hyperlinks which will take you to the lifeline screen. To return to the game, you may right click on the screen, choose Go, Previously Viewed. This should return you to the question slide. Alternatively, left click as usual to return to the game board, then click on the highest number that has been previously selected (in gold to indicate a followed hyperlink). To utilize the 50:50 option, the moderator may tell the contestant which two options to disregard or, use Control-P to change the mouse arrow to a pen. Draw a line through two incorrect responses, then use Control-A to change the pen back into an arrow and continue with the game. Clicking on the action button on the phone handset image of the Phone a Friend lifeline slide will hyperlink to the Ask Jeeves web site where the participant may ask for help. English Prep. I Edition Created by Mr. Somerfleck Copyright, 2005 & forever

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D. This sentence is missing a Albert Einstein was a brilliant scientist; he was not necessarily a very nice man. B. What are we doing again? A. The sentence is correct C. The semicolon should be replaced with a comma. D. This sentence is missing a semicolon.

A. This sentence is correct. Back to Board

I read Of Mice and Men, and liked it very much. A. I’m just happy to be here. B. I didn’t like it at all. C. The title of the book should be underlined or in quotation marks. D. There is nothing incorrect here.

C. The title of the book should be underlined or in quotation marks. Back to Board

The english teacher gave us homework, but I does not have it; and neither does my friend. I h A. don’t B. English/do not D. English/does not C. English

D. English/do not Back to Board

“Tom drives slowly.” Which word in that sentence is an adverb? A. slowly B. Tom C. drives D. Where am I?

A. slowly Back to Board

“The party is going to take place here.” Pick the adverb. A. The party B. going C. is D. here

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“I called him yesterday.” Again, pick the adverb. A. called B. him C. yesterday D. I

C. Yesterday Most adverbs tell you how, where, or when something is done. In other words, they describe the manner, place, or time of an action. Back to Board

Compound sentences have how many independent clauses? A. one B. two C. none D. three

B. Compound sentences contain at least two independent clauses. Back to Board

Conjunctions are what types of words? A. descriptive words B. doing words D. two words joined together to form one C. this, but, or, yet, for, nor, so

C. this, but, or, yet, for, nor, so Back to Board

A topic sentence is what? A. the end of a paragraph B. asking a boy or girl out on a date D. a statement in a paragraph that explains its focus and what it will be about C. a doctor’s diagnosis

D. a statement in a paragraph that explains its focus and what it will be about Back to Board

A paragraph contains which three main parts? A. body, mind, spirit B. introduction, body and conclusion C. body, engine, and doors D. nervous, endocrine, and skeletal systems

B. introduction, body, and conclusion Back to Board

A. one starts; one B. he starts; he C. you start; you D. she wanted; When one has been going to college for as long as he has, ____________ to think the college owes _______ a degree. A. one starts; one B. he starts; he C. you start; you D. she wanted; itself

A. one starts; one Back to Board

When “NYPD Blue” went off the air in May, many viewers felt they had lost a friend in ________ own family. A. his B. their C. its D. our

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Spring begins early in Tennessee Spring begins early in Tennessee. First, the forsythia bursts into blossom; then the dogwood trees _______ to bloom, and the redbud is soon in its glory. A. began B. is C. begin D. was

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Run-on: put a semicolon after World War II. There is nothing Although he had been an often decorated soldier during World War II and had fought many battles for the losing cause of liberalism in Congress. Run-on: put a semicolon after World War II. There is nothing wrong with this sentence. Run-on: put a comma after World War II. D. Fragment: put a comma after Congress and finish the sentence.

D. Fragment: put a comma after Congress and finish the sentence. Back to Board

wrong here. Show me the money. C. This is one giant sentence Knowing better than anyone else how the state legislature had ignored the needs of the community college system and created a crisis characterized by an uneducated workforce that had no place to go for proper training and realizing that someone had to do something about the situation or the state would begin to lose jobs to states in the American south that were more aggressive in providing and publicizing excellence in education, Representative Fuentes began to lay plans for an education bill that took into consideration the needs of the state's community colleges and the students who attended them. A. There is nothing wrong here. Show me the money. B. This is one giant run-on sentence. D. There are two semicolons missing. C. This is one giant sentence fragment.

A. Despite the length of the sentence, it is grammatically correct.

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