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Review: Relative Clauses, Progressive Verbs and Modals

Apply use a relative word, recognize progressive time, read a modal’s meaning, identify a prepositional phrase using supplied texts and original responses.

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Unit review questions
1. Blank: the student ___ pen is missing, possession. Time: ongoing tomorrow. Modal: might arrive, uncertain. Phrase: before dusk. Which relative word fits the supplied relationship?
Need a hint?
  • Whose asks or shows belonging.
  • Who is not the same as whose.
2. Blank: the student ___ pen is missing, possession. Time: ongoing tomorrow. Modal: might arrive, uncertain. Phrase: before dusk. Which progressive verb phrase matches the supplied time?
Need a hint?
  • The helper identifies time.
  • Walked alone is simple past, not progressive.
3. Blank: the student ___ pen is missing, possession. Time: ongoing tomorrow. Modal: might arrive, uncertain. Phrase: before dusk. What does the supplied modal express in this context?
Need a hint?
  • Might does not guarantee an event.
  • Can may have other meanings in other contexts.
4. Blank: the student ___ pen is missing, possession. Time: ongoing tomorrow. Modal: might arrive, uncertain. Phrase: before dusk. What relation does the supplied phrase express?
Need a hint?
  • After lunch adds time.
  • With Lea names accompaniment, not a place.

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Use the skills in a new task

Make a short complete response demonstrating the four skills in this unit. Expand: Lea walks. Expected example: Lea, who carries the bag, is walking toward the gate. Rewrite for ongoing yesterday with was walking. Add Lea might arrive soon and explain that might shows possibility rather than certainty. Longer writing targets in optional extensions can be completed in a later session.

Work on paper or in your own document. Explain the choices you made.

  • Identify whether the blank connects a person, possession, place or time. Insert the word and read the complete clause.
  • Use the stated time and continuing-action requirement. Keep the helping verb with walking.
  • Read the stated situation with the modal. Explain what it allows, requires or leaves uncertain.
  • Read the complete phrase, including its object, and identify the relation it adds to the sentence.
Compare with a model response

Lea, who carries the bag, is walking toward the gate. Who connects information about a person. Is walking is ongoing present; yesterday’s version uses was walking. Toward the gate is a directional prepositional phrase. Lea might arrive soon states possibility, not certainty. I keep helper and main verb together and do not claim might guarantees arrival.

A different response can also meet the criteria. Compare the evidence and reasoning, rather than copying the wording.