grammar rule of the week: based upon your knowledge from this year, find the mistakes with...

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.

Vocabulary Word for Today:

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

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


Recalcitrant (adj): stubbornly resistant to authority or restraint

Many recalcitrant students were suspended in 10.


Reverie (v): daydream; being lost in thought

While in a reverie, its easy to forget ones purpose.


Journal Entry:

Are people who stand by and watch crimes and do nothing just as bad as those who commit them? Why or why not? Explain your reasoning.


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

Ruminate (v): to ponder; to think over

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


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

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


Saturnine (adj): gloomy; surly

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


Sibilant (adj): producing a hissing sound

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


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.


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.


Soporific (v): causing sleep

Warm milk herbal tea and lullabies are soporific.


Taciturn (adj): disinclined to talk; silent

The moody withdrawn student was taciturn.


Timorous (adj): easily frightened; timid

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


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.


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

Titanic (adj): huge; powerful

Around the World in Eighty Days are such a titanic project.


Truculent (adj): savage; fierce

The students was truculent when told they had to write another research paper.


Truncated (v): cut off; shortened

His speech were truncated when the fire alarm went off.


Verve (n): energy, liveliness

The verve of the class were contagious.


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.


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

Vie (v): strive; compete; contend

She vied for first place, but she doesn’t get it.


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

The virtuoso sang dances and acted.


Wanderlust (n): strong impulse to travel

My travels next summer to Europe filled my wanderlust.


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

Joe experiences xenophobia when he went to Australia; he became taciturn and saturnine.


Journal Entry:

So far, what was your favorite lesson/unit you experienced in this class this year? Explain your answer, giving details to support your response.

grammar rule of the week: based upon your knowledge from this year, find the mistakes with...

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