Test #19 -- Eighth Grade -- Record: your vocabulary homework score (/35), your score on the Modern Cowboys quiz (/17), your score on the Miners, Ranchers, etc. quiz (/8), total number of words written between 3/9 and 3/17, your KBAR score for the week (/40), and any extra credit you may have earned this week (+8 min, +15 max). No crossword? -10.
(20) Spelling (All do all.)
  1. (2) pathalogical, symphony, synthesis, synchronize, all correct
  2. (2) genesis, genology, manufacture, manicure, all correct
  3. (2) submerged, convention, subterranian, multiplication, all correct
  4. (2) facsimile, complications, preposition, composit, all correct
  5. (2) distract, contraction, controversy, vice versa, all correct
  6. (2) transpired, conspiracy, accomplice, sensible, all correct
  7. (2) consensus, reconstruct, instructor, prototype, all correct
  8. (2) protagonist, prevention, antagonist, construction, all correct
  9. protagonist : antagonist :: death : ___________ 
  10. procedure : protocol :: model : __________ 
  11. salon : manicure :: rising action : ___________ 
  12. multiplication : division :: consensus : _______
 (13) Vocabulary. Skip if exempt.
  1. "first actor"
  2. "hand make"
  3. "with feeling"
  4. "before place thing"
  5. "with pull thing"
  6. "again with build"
  7. "study of birth"
  8. "with place thing"
  9. "with breathe thing"
  10. "under earth-ish"
  11. "with fold things"
  12. "before come thing"
  13. "with fold person"
(14) FRO? Fix wrong ones. (Just show the fix; don't copy the whole thing.)
  1. In the seventh grade every young boy goes out for football. To prove to himself and his parents that he is a man.
  2. She opened the door and let us into her home, not realizing at the time that we would never enter that door in her home again.
  3. It only attained a speed of about twelve miles an hour, my old rowboat with its three-horsepower motor seemed like a high-speed job to me.
  4. With my brother standing by my side, I reached for the pot handle. Tilting the pot way too much caused the boiling water to spill.
  5. Being a friend of mine like he was when we first joined the soccer team. Together we learned a lot.
  6. Making up his mind quickly, Jim ordered two dozen red roses for his wife, hoping she would accept his apology.
  7. The small, one-story houses are all the same size and style. With no difference except the color.
(13) Participles and Gerunds.
  1. A verb form that acts like another part of speech is called a ___________.
  2. A participle is a verb that acts like a _________.
  3. A gerund is a verb that acts like a _________.
  4. (2) P or G? The choking man was receiving CPR from the bystander.
  5. (2) P or G? Arguing with Mr. Coward is not the smartest thing to do.
  6. (2) P or G? The old woman wept, shocked by the sight of her sister after all these years.
  7. (2) P or G? That farm is famous for growing beautiful strawberries which are very sweet.
  8. (2) P or G? Pleased by the noisy applause, the band gave an encore.
Four (4) letter minimum!
168 possible
10 = +1