Lesson 1: Active Reading

Self-Check Answers

Types of Sentences

1. This is an imperative sentence
2. This is an interrogative sentence.
3. This is an exclamatory sentence.
4. This is a declarative sentence.

Synonyms

Here are some possibilities. There are many others, so check a thesaurus. Which word you choose will always depend on the context of the sentence you are writing. (The context is how the word is used in relationship to the other words in the sentence and the subject.)

1. pretty: lovely, enticing, gorgeous, desirous
2. nice: friendly, appealing, luxurious, awesome
3. green: emerald, moss, forest, lime
4. flower: blossom, daisy, frond, bloom
5. boat: outrigger, canoe, sloop, frigate

Antonyms

1. pretty: ugly
2. nice: mean
3. green: red (on the color wheel) or brown (to contrast green grass or leaves)

Many words do not really have a word that means the opposite. The words “flower” and “boat” are not words that we would probably need to find an opposite for, are they?