Question

came catapulting out into this crimson - skied world, just like the ones that carried bod. (b) one wore a raggedy silken gown that looked like it had been white, the other wore a stained grey suit too large for it, the sleeves which were shredded into shadowy tatters.

1. in sentence (a), is the word “world” a noun? yes
2. in sentence (a), which of the following words is a verb: creatures catapulting out? (use the tense - change test.)
3. in sentence (b), is the word “stained” a verb? no
4. identify all the nouns in sentence (b)—there are six.

one,gown,it,suit,sleeves,tatter
using the proper proofreading marks, correct the six errors in this excerpt:
one of the winged beasts dropped toward them, circled lower and bod maid the call again until it were stifled by hard hands clamping, over his mouth
wordplay - just for fun!

fixer - rooter: how many words can you think of that have the same prefix, suffix, or root as the multisyllabic word below?

cosmopolitanism
(an ideology that all humans belong to a single community)

Explanation:

1. "world" refers to a place or realm, so it is a noun.
2. "catapulting out" shows an action. We can change its tense, e.g., "catapulted out", so it is a verb.
3. In "a stained grey suit", "stained" describes the suit, so it is an adjective, not a verb.
4. Nouns are naming - words. In sentence (b), "One" (referring to a person), "gown", "it" (a pronoun acting as a noun - substitute), "suit", "sleeves", "tatters" are nouns.

For proof - reading: "Dropped" should be lowercase "dropped" as it is not at the start of a new sentence; "maid" should be "made"; "were" should be "was" as the subject "it" is singular; "clamping," should be "clamping" without the comma; "Boc" should be "Bod"; there should be a space between "stifled" and "by".
For word - play, words with the root "cosmo -" include "cosmos", "cosmetic", "cosmology"; words with the root "polis -" include "metropolitan", "politics"; words with the suffix "-ism" include "capitalism", "socialism".

Answer:

1. Yes
2. catapulting out
3. No
4. One, gown, it, suit, sleeves, tatters

Proof - reading: Change "Dropped" to "dropped"; "maid" to "made"; "were" to "was"; remove comma after "clamping"; "Boc" to "Bod"; add space between "stifled" and "by"
Word - play: cosmos, cosmetic, cosmology, metropolitan, politics, capitalism, socialism (among others)