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- Hydra
- (Greek mythology) monster with nine heads
- relative pronouns
- that; what; who; whom; whose; whoever; whomever; which; how
- gorgons
- earth-dwellers, dragon like snakey hair, turn people into stone
- linking verbs
- am; is; are; was; were; be; been; being; have; has; had; do; does; did; may; might; must; would; should; could; will; shall; can; grows; remains; appears; seems; sounds; feels; stays
- Furies
- who punished sinners on earth
- conjunctive adverbs
- also; besides; for example; however; in addition; instead; meanwhile; then; consequently; moreover; accordingly; furthermore; nevertheless; otherwise; yet; hence; therefore
- Argus
- Argus was the hundred-eyed monster killed by Hermes that Hera used to guard Io. Hera used his eyes to decorate the feathers of the peacock. (clint)
- Poseidon
- Was Zues's brother and God of the seas and earthquakes.
- minotaur
- a monster who was half man, half bull; young Athenian men and women were sacrificed for this beast in Cretan labyrinth until Theseus killed him(the beast)
- Cerberus
- (Greek mythology) 3-headed dog guarding the entrance to Hades
- Eros
- Son of Aphrodite (cupid)
- complex_sentence
- a sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
- sphinx
- 1/2 woman 1/2 lion; tells riddles
- Zeus
- King of the gods. God of thunder and lightning. Brother of Poseidon and Hades. Husband of Hera.
- Sirens
- lived on an island in the sea; they had enchanting voices that led sailors to their death
- Coordinating conjunctions
- FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so)
- gray women
- 3 grey women share 1 eye live in darkness
- Zeus
- head god
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Who Wrote Raisin in the sun?
- WAISTPUB
- acronym for subordinating conjunctions
- dependent_clause
- a clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and that functions within the sentence as a noun or adjective or adverb
- subordinating conjunctions
- after; although; as; as if; as long as; as though; because; before; if; in order that; provided; since; so that; than; though; till; unless; until; whatever; when; whenever; where; wherever; while
- Chimaera
- (Greek mythology) fire-breathing she-monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail
- Hecatonchires
- The hundred handed and fifty headed. They help Zeus defeat Cronus.
- simple_sentence
- a sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
- Compound Sentence
- Two main clauses, each with a verb, linked with a conjunction. Eg. "The sun shone and the children played on the beach"
- 5 steps for identifying sentences
- 1. read the sentence; 2. find the verb(s); 3. find the subject(s); 4. look for compound sentence clues; 5. look for complex clues.
- Cyclopes
- one-eyed giants related to the gods
- harpies
- frighful flying creatures with hooked beaks and claws alwasy left behind a stench, belonged to Zeus, defiled food