1. Read the following passage carefully and then answer each of the questions which follow: The news of the threatening eruption of the dormant volcano gripped the citizens with great shock and fear. Those who lived less than one hundred feet away were asked to relocate to safer ground. They hastily packed their prized possessions and vacated their homes . For many days and weeks, they waited . Yet nothing happened . Was the news false?Hoping for the best , they continued to wait. A. Write the part of speech or function of EACH of the underlined words: 1) Threatening 6) their 2) Gripped 7) possessions 3) And 8) vacated 4) Who 9) for 5) Hastily 10) nothing __ (10 marks) B. Copy from the passage:- a)A past tense verb. (1 mark) b) A phrase beginning with a preposition (1 mark) c) A present participle functioning as an adjective (1 mark) A simple sentence (2 marks) e) An infinitive that is object of a verb (2 marks) f) An adjectival clause (2 marks) g) A compound sentence (2 marks) h) Aco conjunction (1 mark) i) An interrogative statement (1 mark) j) A'complex sentence (2 marks) (Total: 25 marks)

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1. Read the following passage carefully and then answer each of the questions which follow: The news of the threatening eruption of the dormant volcano gripped the citizens with great shock and fear. Those who lived less than one hundred feet away were asked to relocate to safer ground. They hastily packed their prized possessions and vacated their homes . For many days and weeks, they waited . Yet nothing happened . Was the news false?Hoping for the best , they continued to wait. A. Write the part of speech or function of EACH of the underlined words: 1) Threatening 6) their 2) Gripped 7) possessions 3) And 8) vacated 4) Who 9) for 5) Hastily 10) nothing __ (10 marks) B. Copy from the passage:- a)A past tense verb. (1 mark) b) A phrase beginning with a preposition (1 mark) c) A present participle functioning as an adjective (1 mark) A simple sentence (2 marks) e) An infinitive that is object of a verb (2 marks) f) An adjectival clause (2 marks) g) A compound sentence (2 marks) h) Aco conjunction (1 mark) i) An interrogative statement (1 mark) j) A'complex sentence (2 marks) (Total: 25 marks)

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. Write the part of speech or function of EACH of the underlined words:1) Threatening - Adjective2) Gripped - Verb3) And - Conjunction4) Who - Pronoun5) Hastily - Adverb6) Their - Possessive Pronoun7) Possessions - Noun8) Vacated - Verb9) For - Preposition10) Nothing - NounB. Copy from the passage:a) A past tense verb: vacatedb) A phrase beginning with a preposition: For many days and weeksc) A present participle functioning as an adjective: threateningd) A simple sentence: Those who lived less than one hundred feet away were asked to relocate to safer ground.e) An infinitive that is object of a verb: Hoping for the bestf) An adjectival clause: Those who lived less than one hundred feet awayg) A compound sentence: They hastily packed their prized possessions and vacated their homes.h) A conjunction: Andi) An interrogative statement: Was the news false?j) A complex sentence: The news of the threatening eruption of the dormant volcano gripped the citizens with great shock and fear.

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