Wednesday, March 11 GUM 9.1 Vocabulary 8.1, 8.2 Literary Analysis and Composition 2014-2015.

Wednesday, March 11

GUM 9.1

Vocabulary 8.1, 8.2

Literary Analysis and Composition 2014-2015

GUM 9.1• What are our lesson objectives?

• What will I be able to do by the end of this lesson?

• I will be able to:

• In verb phrases, use helping verbs that agree in number with their subjects.

• Use verbs that agree in number with their subjects.

How can subjects and verbs agree?• Both subjects and verbs have number; they are either

singular or plural. Subjects and verbs must agree in number.

• Singular subjects require singular verbs.

• He likes rice, but Laura does not.

• Plural subjects require plural verbs.

• They walk to the park, but the dogs run.

• When a sentence has a verb phrase, the subject must agree with the first helping verb.

• Joseph has been practicing his drum routine.

• Even when a word, phrase, or clause comes between a subject and its verb, the subject and verb must still agree.

• Joseph, a stickler for perfection in all things, has been practicing his drum routine.

Let’s Practice!• http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/

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Vocabulary 8.1 and 8.2 • What is our lesson objective?

• What will I be able to do by the end of this lesson?

• I will be able to:

• Define and use words with Greek and Latin roots.

Let’s Practice!• Choose the word that correctly completes the

sentence.

• When Matt broke his left arm, he wrote with his right. Fortunately, he’s ___________.

• A. deflect

• B. dexterity

• C. ambidextrous

• D. digital

Let’s Practice!• Choose the word that correctly completes the

sentence.

• It takes a lot of __________ to be able to master karate.

• A. deflect

• B. genuflect

• C. inflection

• D. dexterity

Let’s Practice!• Choose the word that correctly completes the

sentence.

• It’s important for a spaceship to be able to _______ weapons fire from its enemies.

• A. deflect

• B. genuflect

• C. reflection

• D. manifest

Let’s Practice!• Choose the word that correctly completes the

sentence.

• He didn’t see me when I poured out his Coke and put prune juice in the can; I was very ____________.

• A. surreptitious

• B. rapacious

• C. rapt

• D. emancipate

Let’s Practice!• Choose the word that correctly completes the

sentence.

• When the angry man in the Elmo costume was arrested, the police put ________(s) on him.

• A. mandate

• B. manifest

• C. manipulate

• D. manacle

Let’s Practice!• Choose the word that correctly completes the

sentence.

• Mr. Smith meant to say “Hello” to the Wong family, but his _________ was wrong and he accidentally said a swear word.

• A. reflection

• B. inflection

• C. deflect

• D. genuflect

Let’s Practice!• Choose the word that correctly completes the

sentence.

• During part of American history, the fervor for westward expansion was called _______ Destiny.

• A. mandate

• B. manipulate

• C. rapacious

• D. manifest

Let’s Practice!• Choose the word that correctly completes the

sentence.

• When a U. S. president is elected by the electoral college but fails to win the popular vote, it is said that he lacks a popular ___________.

• A. rapacious

• B. digital

• C. manipulate

• D. mandate

Let’s Practice!• Choose the word that correctly completes the

sentence.

• I thought my new mohawk was awesome until I saw my _________ in the mirror.

• A. reflection

• B. deflect

• C. genuflect

• D. mandate

Let’s Practice!• Choose the word that correctly completes the

sentence.

• The pirate was _________; he could never get enough booty.

• A. digital

• B. rapacious

• C. dexterity

• D. deflect

Let’s Practice!• Choose the word that correctly completes the

sentence.

• When the cast of Doctor Who started to tell stories behind the scenes, I was _______ with attention.

• A. rapacious

• B. rapt

• C. reflection

• D. inflection

Let’s Practice!• Choose the word that correctly completes the

sentence.

• President Lincoln signed the __________(ion) Proclamation in 1863, which freed the slaves.

• A. manacle

• B. emancipate

• C. mandate

• D. manifest

Let’s Practice!• Choose the word that correctly completes the

sentence.

• In a Catholic church, there are kneelers that make it more comfortable to _________.

• A. deflect

• B. emancipate

• C. reflection

• D. genuflect

Let’s Practice!• Choose the word that correctly completes the

sentence.

• Photoshop makes it easier to ________ digital images.

• A. manacle

• B. reflection

• C. manipulate

• D. genuflect

Let’s Practice!• Choose the word that correctly completes the

sentence.

• Photoshop makes it easier to manipulate ________ images.

• A. dexterity

• B. deflect

• C. manifest

• D. digital