Starter quiz

  • Which sentence needs a question mark at the end?
    • How interesting it is to see the armour of a hoplite
    • Hoplites had distinctive armour
    • What did hoplites wear as armour  ✓
    • Hoplites wore helmets and had round shields
  • Which sentence would best suit ending with an exclamation mark?
    • How interesting it is to see the armour of a hoplite  ✓
    • Hoplites had distinctive armour
    • What did hoplites wear as armour
    • Hoplites wore helmets and had round shields
  • Match the tense to its corresponding sentence.
    • Present tense
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      They stand shoulder to shoulder in a phalanx formation. ✓
    • Past tense
      ⇔
      They stood shoulder to shoulder in a phalanx formation. ✓
    • Future tense
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      They will stand shoulder to shoulder in a phalanx formation. ✓
  • Which co-ordinating conjunction completes this sentence? "Hoplites were heavily armed foot soldiers __________ they were a key component of Greek warfare'"
    • , but
    • , or
    • and  ✓
  • What type of clause is this? "because their formation was so strong".
    • 'subordinate' ✓
  • Tick the sentences that are main clauses.
    • But this was not a common feature of warfare.
    • It was the most iconic feature of warfare.  ✓
    • As they relied on the phalanx formation.
    • Hoplites were tightly packed in a rectangle or square formation.  ✓
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