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Transcript
Thursday, October 3, 2013
 Root Word of the Day
 None – study for Friday’s quiz. Take the review quiz
again. How did you do? Did you improve?
 Word of the Day
 Indolent; Indolence Having or showing a disposition
to avoid exertion; slothful, lazy: “an indolent person.”
 Which one of the words is a noun– “indolent” or “indolence?”
 How do you know?
 Number your paper 1-20 on the left side of your left margin line (it’s
red).
 Take the review quiz for questions 1-15 WITHOUT checking your notes.
 16 – Write the word that completes this sentence:
 In grammar when a word modifies another word it ____ the description.
 17 – An adjective modifies two types of words, they are ____ and ____.
 18- An adverb modifies three types of words, they are ____, ____, and
_____.
 19. Print only the adjective and the word it modifies from this sentence
for this answer:
 He looked like a nervous wreck.
 20. Print only the adverb and the word it modifies:
 Justice was served quickly--- the guilty verdict for The Texans came in less
than two hours.
 Words that modify (change the description, therefore
describe) nouns or pronouns
 In chapter 4 locate five sentences with adjectives and
copy them into your notebook.
 Circle the adjective
 Draw an arrow to the noun or pronoun that it modifies
 A word that modifies an adjective, verb, or another
adverb
 In chapter 4 locate five sentences with adverbs and copy
them into your notebook.
 Circle the adverb
 Draw an arrow to the adjective, verb, or another adverb that it
modifies
 Subject – the actor of the verb
 Verb – a word of action or a word that shows state of
being
 The subject and the verb must agree in size and
number.
 Find a place on the first page of chapter one where
the narrator breaks this rule.
 A word that helps a noun or pronoun in the phrase
give more information about another part of the
sentence
 A group of words that begins with a preposition and
ends with the noun or pronoun that serves as the
object of the preposition.
 The noun or pronoun at the end of a prepositional
phrase that the preposition is showing the
relationship between another part of a sentence.
 KEY
 Preposition – red word
 Prepositional phrase – underlined
 Object of the preposition - green word
 Sample from That Was Then, This Is Now
 I had been hunting all over town for a job.
 Pronoun – a word that takes the place of a noun
 Antecedent – the word that the pronoun takes the
place of
 Agreement – the pronoun must agree with its
antecedent in number, case, and gender
 The pronoun that is linked to the subject through the
linking verb
 To receive half credit for your missed answers on a
quiz, you must do the following.
 Show me, in your notebook, a page labeled “Quiz
Corrections.” Below the heading, include the following:
1.
2.
3.
4.
The question you missed
The correct answer
The date of the notes where the answer was given to you in
advance (you can find that be going to “Logan Logic 2014” on
my webpage).
A sentence explaining how you chose the wrong answer and
how you intend to prevent this error in the future.