Pretest 19 -- Eighth Grade -- As always, look
for other mistakes to fix for extra credit.
Roots/Prefixes Review!
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He is a pathalogical liar; you can never believe
anything he says.
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Mr. Saxby plays in the SLO symphany.
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Plants make food through the process called photosinthesis.
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Everybody should syncronize their watches so
we all have the same time.
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Have you traced your family's genealogy?
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The first book of the Bible is called Genasis.
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The subtaranean passage caved in.
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He remained submurged for 3 minutes before
he came up for air.
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The fax in fax machine really stands for facsimilie.
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We manafacture tires at this plant.
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His lawn had a very manacured look.
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Hundreds of docters attended the convention.
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"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of
cure."
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The rising action is where complecations occur.
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Think of multaplacation as "power adding."
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Do not end a sentence with a prepasition.
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Tom Sawyer was a composit of three kids Mark
Twain knew growing up.
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Listening to music will disstract you from
studying.
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Can't is an example of a contraction.
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Both sides agreed to end the contraversy.
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Was it you and Jimmy or visa versa?
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What do you remember about what transpiered
on the night of the murder?
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They formed a conspearasy to steal the jewels.
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She always has an accompliss in her mischeif.
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Is it sencible to wear Ugg boots in the rain?
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The class couldn't reach a consenses; there
was always one person who wouldn't agree.
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Can you reconstruct the damaged tower?
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His driving instructer taught him how to paralell
park.
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We first built a small protatype for the rocket.
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Who is the main protaginist in The Outsiders?
Vocabulary. Find the meaning of each of the roots and prefixes
below.
Then write a sentence that uses a word that contains
each root or prefix.
path = ______, sym/syn = ______, gen = ________, com/con
= _____,
pre = ______, sub = ______, man = ________, fac/fic/fit/fec
= ______,
ven = _______, plic/plex/pli = ______, pos = _______,
tract = _______, ver = _______, spir/pir = _______,
sen/sent = _______, struct = _________, prot = ______