Call of the Wild Vocabulary * Insular - 1.(adjective) of or pertaining to an island or islands; dwelling or situated on an island. 2.(noun) an inhabitant of an island; islander * Metamorphosis - (noun) a complete change of form‚ structure‚ or substance‚ as transformation by magic or witchcraft * Dominion – (noun) the power or right of governing and controlling; sovereign authority * Consignment – 1.(adjective) of‚ pertaining to‚ or shipped as goods on consignment. 2. (verb) to
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Advanced Vocabulary – 1 |ambiguity |A sentence/expression can be ambiguous if it has two possible meanings‚ and it is not clear what the | |(adj = ambiguous) |writer/speaker wants to say | |Although she said she was committed to the scheme‚ there was some ambiguity in her voice. | |Christians are not ambiguous
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ASSIMILATION ESTABLISHED PROGRESSIVE ASSIMILATION OF VOICE Due to economy of effort all sounds are affected by their environment to some extent. This economy of effort may occur at the vocal bands or result from the accomodation between two articulations. Most nouns add an orthographic s to make their plural form: book- books‚ dog-dogs. However‚ the pronunciation of the plural morpheme varies according to the noun to which it is added. The general rule is that the plural morpheme must agree
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during across around beside except after at between for against before beyond from * A prepositional phrase is a group of words beginning with a preposition and usually ending with a noun. It usually do the work of adjectives and adverbs in some ways as in an adjective phrase and adverb phrase. Here are some examples from the texts that shows us the uses of preposition in sentences : 1. Tassai lived on the top of a mesa that looked far out over the Painted Desert.. (Adverb Phrase)
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THE BIG BOOK of WORDS You SHOULD KNOW Over 3‚000 Words Every Person Should Be Able to Use (And a Few That You Probably Shouldn’t) David Olsen‚ Michelle Bevilacqua‚ and Justin Cord Hayes Avon‚ Massachusetts Copyright © 2009 by F+W Media‚ Inc. All rights reserved. This book‚ or parts thereof‚ may not be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher; exceptions are made for brief excerpts used in published reviews. Published by Adams Media‚ an F+W Media Company 57 Littlefield Street
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Identify the Verb(s) Identify the Subject Noun(s) Draw a line between the Subject and the Verb. Name _____________________ Diagramming Sentences #2 Class Period ______ Nouns‚ Verbs‚ Adjectives & Articles Date _____/_____ Example: Adj SN AV A N Big John | searched the field. Nouns‚ Action/Helping/Linking Verbs‚ Adjectives and Articles 1. Several children solved the puzzle. 2. A bear climbed the tree. 3. Who will dig the hole? 4. I know the best restaurant. 5. Seven people went shopping. 6. The
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the window (in order )to let some fresh air in the room. ADECTIVES FOLLOWED BY INFINITIVES Certain adjectives can be followed by either infinitives or gerund without changing the meaning of the sentence. But there are several adjectives that can be immediately followed by infinitives and never followed by gerund. In general‚ these adjectives describe a person not a thing. Many of these adjectives describe a person’s
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VOCABULARY V 1. Aghast Definition: struck with overwhelming shock or amazement; filled with sudden fright or horror: ADJECTIVE. Synonyms: afraid‚ agape‚ agog‚ alarmed‚ amazed‚ anxious‚ appalled‚ astonished‚ astounded‚ awestruck‚ confounded‚ dismayed‚ dumbfounded‚ frightened‚ overwhelmed‚ shocked‚ startled‚ stunned‚ surprised‚ terrified‚ thunderstruck Antonyms: undisturbed‚ unperturbed‚ unsurprised Companion Forms: None. Sentences: 1. We sat‚ aghast‚ with mouths open‚ looking at the painting
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Generally speaking‚ inflection applies to all members of a part of speech (e.g.‚ every English verb has a past-tense form)‚ while derivation applies only to some members of a part of speech (e.g.‚ the nominalizing suffix -ity can be used with the adjectives modern and
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find out. It started with one hot summer day in the town of Olena. I’m on my class with the hundred cicadas on the oak tree buzzing outside Mrs. Kirk’s sixth-grade classroom. My classmates are hunched over their spelling tests‚ ready to spell adjective words. I’m invisible. Most people would say that’s a lie. They’d say that I’m not invisible because they can see me as plain as day‚ but most people are wrong. It’s not my skin that makes me invisible. It’s my silence. My silence and the trick I
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