Paragraph-1

The old lighthouse stood proudly on the rugged cliff, its beam a constant sentinel against the crashing waves. Seabirds wheeled and cried overhead, their sharp calls echoing in the salty air. Inside the sturdy stone tower, the keeper meticulously polished the brass fittings, his movements practiced and precise after years of solitary watch. He often gazed out at the horizon, a vast expanse of blue that stretched endlessly, sometimes dotted with distant ships sailing towards unknown shores. The rhythmic pulse of the light was his companion, a steady beat in the otherwise untamed wilderness.

Now, here are 10 grammar-focused questions based on this paragraph, along with their answers:

Questions:

Identify the subject and verb in the first sentence.

What type of adjective is "old" in the first sentence?

What is the function of the prepositional phrase "on the rugged cliff"?

Identify a plural noun in the second sentence.

What is the tense of the verb "wheeled" in the second sentence?

What is the antecedent of the pronoun "his" in the third sentence?

What part of speech is "meticulously" in the third sentence?

Rewrite the phrase "distant ships sailing towards unknown shores" using a relative clause.

Identify an example of a possessive pronoun in the paragraph.

What type of conjunction is "otherwise" in the last sentence?

Answers:

Subject: lighthouse; Verb: stood

Descriptive (or qualitative) adjective

It functions as an adverbial phrase, modifying the verb "stood" by indicating where the lighthouse stood.

seabirds, waves, calls, fittings, years, movements, ships, shores

Simple past tense

keeper

Adverb

distant ships that were sailing towards unknown shores

his

Adverbial conjunction