Enjoying the King’s English
Elvis Presley was crowned the King of Rock n’ Roll.
1. What kind of Emotional Appeal
appears in the sentence below?
STILL ROCKIN!
A.
B.
C.
D.
Bandwagon
Loaded Words
Snob Appeal
Plain Folks
Enjoying the King’s English
Look at the Elvis Credit Card Application
Analyze the sentence below.
“Apply Now For Your Elvis Presley Credit Card.”
2. What is the subject in the above sentence?
(a) Apply (b) Elvis Presley (c ) You
3. What part of speech is the word “for”?
(a) Adverb (b) verb (c ) preposition (d) noun
4. What is the verb in the above sentence?
(a) Now (b) Your (c ) credit (d) Apply
5. Why has the following phrases been
placed within quotation marks?
Free “Elvis In Hollywood” Video when
you begin using your card.
(a) Title of a book
(c ) Title of a movie
(b) Title of a magazine
6. What is the subject of the
sentence below?
Switch your other balances and save!
(a) Your (b) balances (c ) save (d) you
7. What kind of punctuation mark ends the above
sentence?
(a) question mark (b) colon (c ) exclamation mark
Read the sentence below.
We’ll send you a balance transfer form with your
card so you can transfer any balance you might
have with a higher interest credit or department
store card.
8. What does the contraction “We’ll” represent?
(a) We shall (b) We will (c ) We should
ENJOYING
THE
KING’S ENGLISH
9. How many syllables are there in the word
“appreciation”?
(a) One (b) two (c ) three (d) four (e) five
10. What is the definition of criteria?
A. a quality attributed to whatever pleases.
B. to assign to a position
C. means of judging
Credit card with percentage
11. What is the annual percentage rate for purchases on an
Elvis Presley Credit Card ?
A.
B.
C.
D.
7. 5 %
16. 85 %
14. 54 %
3. 24 %
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Look at the section entitled “Payment
Protection Plan”. Analyze the sentence
below.
The payment Plan will take care of your
account when you can’t.
12. What is the predicate in the above
sentence?
(a). Payment (b) account (c ) will take
13. What does the contraction can’t mean?
(a) can know (b) can note (c ) can no
(d) can not
14. What is the subject of the sentence?
The Payment Plan will take care of your account
when you can’t.
(a) Account (b) Payment Plan (c ) care
What part of
speech is the
word “above”?
15.
(a) noun (b) verb (c ) preposition (d) adverb
16. What is the sentence pattern below.
We’ll send you a balance transfer form with your card.
A. Subject + verb + object complement
B. Subject + verb + direct object
C. Subject + verb + indirect object + direct object
D. Subject + verb + direct object + object complement
17.How
17. How many prepositional phrases are
found in the sentence below?
A consumer report may be requested in connection with the
processing of this application and any resulting account.
A. One
B. Two
C. Three
D. four
Logical Fallacy
18. What kind of logical fallacy appears in the sentence
below?
Elvis and Elvis Presley are Registered Trademarks of
Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc.
A. Inductive Reasoning
B. Deductive Reasoning
C. False Premise
D. Hasty Generalization
A Master Card for the King
Capitalization Rules
When you fill out an application, you must capitalize
proper nouns correctly.
1. A person’s name must always be capitalized.
2. The name of streets must always be capitalized.
3. The name of cities must always be capitalized.
4. The name of states must always be capitalized.
(A comma must be placed between the city and state)
5. The name of organizations must be capitalized.
6. The name of institutions must be capitalized.
Your job is to complete an Elvis Presley Credit Card
application. Watch your capitalization and
punctuation.