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4th Quarter Warm Ups

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Grammar Rule of the Week:

Based upon your knowledge from this year, find the mistakes with apostrophes in the following sentences.

Pugilist (n): fighter; boxer

The pugilists gloves ripped in the middle of the fight.

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Pulchritude (n): physical beauty

The girls pulchritude made everyone pale in comparison.

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Queue (n): a waiting line, especially of persons or vehicles

Its frustrating to wait in the queue at the license plate agency.

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Recalcitrant (adj): stubbornly resistant to authority or restraint

Many recalcitrant students were suspended in 08.

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Journal Entry:

Are people who stand by and watch crimes just as bad as those who commit them? Why or why not? Explain your reasoning.

Grammar Rule of the Week:

Based upon your knowledge from this year, fix the fragments or run-ons in the following sentences.

Remuneration (n): payment; reward

He thought the remuneration was.

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Reverie (n): daydream; being lost in thought

While in reverie.

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Ruminate (v): to ponder; to think over

She refused to ruminate about the situation she ended up making a bad decision.

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Salutary (adj): promoting health; beneficial

Apples are salutary to your health chocolate cake is not healthy.

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Journal Entry:

If the government decided to shut down all schools and forbid you to go to any school, what would you do? Explain your answer.

Grammar Rule of the Week:

Based upon your knowledge from this year, fix the comma splices in the following sentences.

Sangfroid (sahn-frwa)(n): poise and calmness, especially under strain

During a crisis, his sangfroid was admirable, he never lost control.

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Saturnine (adj): gloomy; surly

The saturnine student was kicked out of class, he never came back.

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Scintillate (v): to sparkle; to flash

Her jewelry scintillated, the other girls were jealous.

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Sibilant (adj): producing a hissing sound

The sibilant tire went completely flat, Joe had to change it in the rain.

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Journal Entry:

How would you rate yourself on a scale of 1 to 10 (with 10 being the best) as a speaker? Explain your answer, discussing your strengths and weaknesses.

Grammar Rule of the Week:

Based upon your knowledge from this year, find the comma mistakes in the following sentences.

Somnambulist (n): sleepwalker

The somnambulist, frightened her family at 3 AM.

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Soporific (v): causing sleep

Warm milk herbal tea and lullabies are soporific.

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Taciturn (adj): disinclined to talk; silent

The moody withdrawn student was taciturn.

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Timorous (adj): easily frightened; timid

The mouse was timorous and Julie was determined to catch it.

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Journal Entry:

If you could travel for free to any one country in the world, which country would it be? Explain your answer, discussing why you chose that country.

Grammar Rule of the Week:

Based upon your knowledge from this year, find the subject-verb agreement mistakes in the following sentences.

Titanic (adj): huge; powerful

The car were so titanic that it took up two parking spaces.

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Transpose (v): to reverse the order or place of

The students has to transpose the music composition in class.

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Truculent (adj): savage; fierce

The tigers was being so truculent during the circus that they had to be put in their cages.

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Truncated (v): cut off; shortened

The program were truncated because it was four hours long.

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Grammar Rule of the Week:

Based upon your knowledge from this year, find the verb tense mistakes in the following sentences.

Vie (v): strive; compete; contend

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Valor (n): courage; bravery

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Verve (n): energy, liveliness

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Virtuoso (n): person with unusual skill in any field; particularly in the arts

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Grammar Rule of the Week:

Based upon your knowledge from this year, find the verb tense mistakes in the following sentences.

Votary (n): a person devoted to something

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Wanderlust (n): strong impulse to travel

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Whet (v): to sharpen; to stimulate

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Xenophobia (n): fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners

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