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The Grammardog Guide to
The Mayor of
Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy
All exercises use sentences from the novel.
Includes over 250 multiple choice questions.

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THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE by Thomas Hardy – Grammar and Style
All exercises use sentences from the novel.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Exercise 1 -- Parts of Speech . . . . 3
25 multiple choice questions
Exercise 2 -- Proofreading: Spelling, Capitalization, . . . . 5
Punctuation
12 multiple choice questions
Exercise 3 -- Proofreading: Spelling, Capitalization, . . . . 6
Punctuation
12 multiple choice questions
Exercise 4 -- Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences . . . . 7
25 multiple choice questions
Exercise 5 -- Complements . . . . 9
25 multiple choice questions on direct objects,
predicate nominatives, predicate adjectives,
indirect objects, and objects of prepositions
Exercise 6 -- Phrases . . . 11
25 multiple choice questions on prepositional,
appositive, gerund, infinitive, and participial
phrases
Exercise 7 -- Verbals: Gerunds, Infinitives, and Participles . . . 13
25 multiple choice questions
Exercise 8 -- Clauses . . . 15
25 multiple choice questions

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THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE by Thomas Hardy – Grammar and Style
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Exercise 9 -- Style: Figurative Language . . . 17
25 multiple choice questions on metaphor,
simile, personification, and onomatopoeia
Exercise 10 -- Style: Poetic Devices . . . 19
25 multiple choice questions on assonance,
consonance, alliteration, repetition, and rhyme
Exercise 11 -- Style: Sensory Imagery . . . 21
25 multiple choice questions
Exercise 12 -- Style: Allusions and Symbols . . . 23
25 multiple choice questions on historical,
religious, literary, and mythological allusions
and symbols
Exercise 13 -- Style: Literary Analysis – Selected Passage 1 . . . 25
6 multiple choice questions
Exercise 14 -- Style: