committee of the whole

noun

the entire membership of a legislative body, sitting in a deliberative rather than a legislative capacity, for informal debate and preliminary consideration of matters awaiting legislative action.

QUIZZES

CHALLENGE YOURSELF WITH THIS MIDDLE SCHOOL PART OF SPEECH QUIZ!

How well do you know your adjectives from your adverbs? Your preposition from your pronouns? Your interjections from your conjunctions? Let’s put your knowledge of parts of speech to the text! Note: Many of the following questions will ask you to identify the parts of speech “in order.” That means the first word in all capital letters will correspond to the first option in an answer, and so on.

Question 1 of 10

In order, what parts of speech are the words in all capital letters? Alisa was VERY tired, SO she decided to go to bed.

adverb, adverb

adverb, conjunction

adjective, conjunction

TAKE THE QUIZ TO FIND OUT

Origin of committee of the whole

First recorded in 1745–55

Words nearby committee of the whole

committed, committed facility, committee, committee of correspondence, committee of one, committee of the whole, committee of the whole house, committeeman, committeeperson, committeewoman, commix

Example sentences from the Web for committee of the whole

Their decisions were made in committee-of-the-whole, and nothing was done that could not meet with the willing consent of all.
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