English 7H MSND Grammar Review www.grammardog.com Name Date Period A MIDSUMMER NIGHT S DREAM by William Shakespeare Grammar and Style EXERCISE 1 - PARTS OF SPEECH Identify the parts of speech in the following sentences. Label the underlined words: v = verb (action [transitive or intransitive], linking, or helping) n = noun (proper, common, collective, concrete, or abstract) pron = pronoun (personal, demonstrative, interrogative, indefinite, relative, reflexive, or intensive) adj = adjective (proper, common, or demonstrative) adv = adverb prep = preposition conj = conjunction (coordinating, correlative, or subordinate) int = interjection 1. I must employ you in some business against our nuptial and confer with you of something nearly that concerns yourselves. 2. With duty and desire we follow you. 3. Ay me! for aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history. 4. So quick bright things come to confusion. I 5. How long within this wood intend you to stay? 6. Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell. 7. I am invisible, and I will overhear their conference. 8. Lysander riddles very prettily. 9. But there is two hard things: that is, to bring the moonlight into a chamber; for, you know, Pyramus and Thisby meet by moonlight. 10. Then there is another thing: we must have a wall in the great chamber; for Pyramus and Thisby, says the story, did talk through the chink of a wall. 11. Lord, what fools these mortals be! 12. O Bottom, thou art changed! What do I see on thee? V 13. Now thou and I are new in amity, and will tomorrow midnight solemnly dance in Duke Theseus house triumphantly. 14. Go, bid the huntsmen wake them with their horns. 15. Let s follow him, and by the way let us recount our dreams. 16. In any case, let Thisby have clean linen; and let not him that plays the lion pare his nails, for they shall hang out for the lion s claws. 17. More strange than true, I never may believe these antique fables nor these fairy toys. 18. The forms of things unknown, the poet s pen turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name. 19. Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth. 20. Now, until the break of day, through this house each fairy stray.
EXERCISE 2 - PROOFREADING: SPELLING, CAPITALIZATION, PUNCTUATION Read the following passages and decide which type of error, if any, appears in each underlined section. Then, write the correction next to the answer choice. PASSAGE 1 Thou, thou, lysander, thou hast given her rhymes and interchanged love tokkens with my child; thou hast by moonlite at her window sung with feigning voice verses of feigning love, and stol n the impression of her fantacy with bracelets of thy hair, rings, gauds, conceits knacks, trifles, Nosegays, sweetmeats messengers of strong prevailment in unhardened youth. (Act I, scene I 29-36) PASSAGE 2 With cunning hast thou filched my daughters heart, turned her obedience, which is due to me, to stuborn harshness. And, my gracious duke, be it so she will not here before your Grace consent to marry with Demetrius, i beg the, anceint privilege of Athens, as she is mine, I may dispose of her, which shall be either to this gentlman or to her death, according to our law immediately provided in that case. Act I, scene I 37-46)
PASSAGE 3 Some of your French crowns have no hair at all, and then you will play barefaced. But, masters, here are your parts; and i am to entreat you request you, and dessire you, to con them by tomorrow night; and meet me in the palace Wood, a mile without the town, by moonligt. There will we rehearse; for if we meet in the city we shall be dogged with company, and our devices known. (Act I, scene ii - 87-94) PASSAGE 4 And with the juice of this I ll streak her eyes and make her full of hateful fantasys. Take thou some of it and seek thruogh the grove. A sweet athenian lady is in love with a disdainful youth: anoint his eyes, but do it when the next thing he espies may be the lady. thou shalt know the man by the Athenian garments he hath on (Act II, scene ii - 262-269)
EXERCISE 3 - COMPLEMENTS Identify the complements in the following sentences. Label the underlined words: d.o. = direct object i.o. = indirect object p.n. = predicate nominative o.p. = object of preposition p.a. = predicate adjective 1. This man hath bewitched the bosom of my child. 2. Marry, our play is The most Lamentable Comedy and most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisby. 3. I ll speak in a monstrous little voice: -- Thisne, Thisne! 4. Pray you, if it be, give it me, for I am slow of study. I 5. Thou speakest aright; I am that merry wanderer of the night. 6. Give me that boy, and I will go with thee. 7. I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius, the more you beat me, I will fawn on you. 8. Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit. 9. This green plot shall be our stage, this hawthorn brake our tiring house, and we will do it in action as we will do it before the duke. 10. A calendar, a calendar! Look in the almanac. Find out moonshine, find out moonshine! 11. And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays. 12. All fancy-sick she is, and pale of cheer with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear. V 13. My Oberon, what visions have I seen! Methought I was enamored of an ass. 14. I know you two are rival enemies. 15. I will tell you everything, right as it fell out. 16. Get your apparel together, good strings to your beards, new ribbands to your pumps... 17. How shall we beguile the lazy time, if not with some delight? 18. If we offend, it is with our good will. 19. I see a voice. Now will I to the chink, to spy an I can hear my Thisby s face. Thisby! 20. And, as I am an honest Puck, if we have unearned luck. EXERCISE 4 - PHRASES Identify the phrases in the following sentences. Label the underlined words: par = participial inf = infinitive app = appositive prep = prepositional Then, if the phrase is prepositional, label it as adj = adjective or adv = adverb. 1. Full of vexation come I, with complaint against my child, my daughter Hermia. 2. And, my gracious duke, be it so she will not here before your Grace consent to marry with Demetrius... 3. Thrice blessed they that master so their blood to undergo such maiden pilgrimage; but earthlier happy is the rose distilled than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
I 4. Either I mistake your shape and making quite, or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite called Robin Goodfellow. 5. No night is now with hymn or carol blest; therefore the moon, the governess of floods, pale in her anger, washes all the air, that rheumatic diseases do abound. 6. Now much beshrew my manners and my pride if Hermia meant to say Lysander lied! 7. A crew of patches, rude mechanicals, that work for bread upon Athenian stalls, were met together to rehearse a play... 8. My mistress with a monster is in love. 9. Abide me, if thou dar st; for well I wot thou run st before me, shifting every place, and dar st not stand nor look me in the face. V 10. Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay: good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow. 11. Her dotage now I do begin to pity; for, meeting her of late behind the wood, seeking sweet favors for this hateful fool, I did upbraid her and fall out with her. 12. Have you sent to Bottom s house? Is he coming home yet? 13. Such tricks hath strong imagination that, if it would but apprehend some joy, it comprehends some bringer of that joy; or in the night, imagining some fear, how easy is a bush supposed a bear! 14. Is there no play to ease the anguish of a torturing hour? 15. This man, with lime and roughcast, doth present and through Wall s chink, poor souls, they are content to whisper. 16. In this same interlude it doth befall that I, one Snout by name, present a wall... EXERCISE 5 - CLAUSES Indicate how clauses are used in the sentences below. Label the clauses: ind. = independent sub. = subordinate Then, label the subordinate clauses as adverb or adjective 1. I must confess that I have heard so much. 2. Before the time I did Lysander see, seemed Athens as a paradise to me. I 3. And I am sick when I look not on you. 4. Let me go! Or if thou follow me, do not believe but I shall do thee mischief in the wood. 5. We ll rest us, Hermia, if you think it good, and tarry for the comfort of the day. 6. Why should you think that I should woo in scorn? 7. Why should he stay whom love doth press to go? 8. Be certain, nothing truer, tis no jest that I do hate thee, and love Helena! 9. And are you grown so high in his esteem because I am so dwarfish and so low?
V 10. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream. 11. If he come not, then the play is marred; it goes not forward, doth it? 12. In any case, let Thisby have clean linen; and let not him that plays the lion pare his nails, for they shall hang out for the lion s claws. 13. This loam, this roughcast, and this stone doth show that I am that same wall. 14. This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard. 20. If we shadows have offended, think but this, and all is mended EXERCISE 6 - SIMPLE, COMPOUND, AND COMPLEX SENTENCES Label each of the following sentences S for simple, C for compound, CX for complex, or CC for compound complex. 1. If then true lovers have been ever crossed, it stands as an edict in destiny. 2. I frown upon him, yet he loves me still. 3. O, teach me how you look, and with what art you sway the motion of Demetrius heart! 4. We must starve our sight from lovers food till morrow deep midnight. I 5. I must go seek some dewdrops here, and hang a pearl in every cowslip s ear. 6. I ll watch Titania when she is asleep and drop the liquor of it in her eyes. 7. Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit, for I am sick when I do look on thee. 8. I ll run from thee and hide me in the brakes, and leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts. 9. There are things in this Comedy of Pyramus and Thisby that will never please. 10. You speak all your part at once, cues and all. 11. But hast thou yet latched the Athenian s eyes with the love-juice, as I did bid thee do? 12. Demetrius loves her, and he loves not you. V 13. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man s hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was. 14. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballet of this dream. 15. Masters, the duke is coming from the temple, and there is two or three lords and ladies more married. 16. For if I tell you, I am no true Athenian. 17. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies, that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends. 18. This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad. 19. With the help of a surgeon he might yet recover, and yet prove an ass. 20. Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends.