PRACTICE 1: MATCHING Match the infinitive phrases with the sentences. Write out each sentence. inserting the Intinitive and underlining them.
Sentences
1 Aunt Petunia had insisted that the whole family follow the same
diet, to
Infinitives:
K Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2. Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to
-George Bernard Shaw (saying)
3. All Old Yeller did was come bounding in
-Fred Gipson, Old Yeller
4 Stuart had to climb a tiny rope ladder which his father had fixed for
him
a. To get to the washbasin
b. To make Dudley feel better about eating "rabbit food"
c. To like what you get
- EB White, Shart Little
5. Hours later, walking home, my boots crunching on the snow, I bent
my head backward
d. To drink in the crystal stars
e. To jump on us and lick us in the face and bark so loud that there,
inside the cabin, the noise nearly made us deal
-Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved
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Read the stanza from "i wandered lonely as a cloud" and answer the question. [1]i wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills, when all at once i saw a crowd, a host, of golden daffodils; [5]beside the lake, beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze. what is the effect of describing all the places the daffodils can be seen? it conveys the idea that they are common. it creates a feeling of awe and delight. it makes the reader feel overwhelmed. it shows how difficult it is to grow daffodils.

According to eric shlosser’s introduction to fast food nation what is his book primarily about?

Read the passage from animal farm. one sunday morning squealer announced that the hens, who had just come in to lay again, must surrender their eggs. napoleon had accepted, through whymper, a contract for four hundred eggs a week. the price of these would pay for enough grain and meal to keep the farm going till summer came on and conditions were easier. when the hens heard this, they raised a terrible outcry. they had been warned earlier that this sacrifice might be necessary, but had not believed that it would really happen. they were just getting their clutches ready for the spring sitting, and they protested that to take the eggs away now was murder. for the first time since the expulsion of jones, there was something resembling a rebellion. led by three young black minorca pullets, the hens made a determined effort to thwart napoleon's wishes. their method was to fly up to the rafters and there lay their eggs, which smashed to pieces on the floor. napoleon acted swiftly and ruthlessly. he ordered the hens' rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death. the dogs saw to it that these orders were carried out. for five days the hens held out, then they capitulated and went back to their nesting boxes. nine hens had died in the meantime. their bodies were buried in the orchard, and it was given out that they had died of coccidiosis. whymper heard nothing of this affair, and the eggs were duly delivered, a grocer's van driving up to the farm once a week to take them away. which detail from the passage supports the claim that this is an allegory for the great purge? the hens holding out for five days but capitulating the eggs being delivered to the grocer the protesting hens being intentionally starved coccidiosis spreading on the farm