Tuesday, 12/11: Vocab, Clauses, 120 Seconds, Vladek

“Vocab, 12/11.”

    

  1. _____
  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. _____
  5. It would be ___ of a dishwasher to tell the master chef  how to do things.
  6. All her emotions were released in a ___ moment on the stage as 20,000 people cheered.
  7. Much of the agriculture in the rest of the world is made up of _____(ence) farms, that barely grow enough food for the family working on it.
  8. MacGyver could ____ together almost anything from a bomb to a hang-glider from bits of trash he found lying around.
  9. Artie says Richieu’s picture on the wall of his parents’ room was a sort of _____ to him, implying that Richieu would have been a better son than he is.
  10. After the long siege, the city knew it was ____ to resist any longer…
  11. …and they finally _____(ed) to the stronger army.
  12. Though he came from a very religious family, he was still _____ about organized religion; he wasn’t sure what to think.
  13. *** _______ usually ______(s) _______.

 

Clause Examples. A clause is a group of words that has a subject and a verb.

  • Tara ate a cheese roll after she watched The Simpsons with her family.
    (Independent clause. (I) Has a subject and a verb. Could be a sentence on its own.
  • Tara ate a cheese roll after she watched The Simpsons with her family.
    (Dependent clause. (D)  Has a subject and a verb, but cannot stand alone as a sentence.)
  • Tara ate a cheese roll after she watched The Simpsons with her family. (NOT A CLAUSE! (NOT) No subject/verb! This is a phrase!)

“Clauses, 12/11.” – Write I, D or NOT.

  1. I sent the llama to the store before the party started.
  2. When we all finally got there.
  3. If you were a bird, you would like it in a tree.
  4. If you were a bird, you would like it in a tree.
  5. He failed the test because he ignored the warning.
  6. He failed the test after he ignored the warning.
  7. Since Jenni ate the hot dog, she got sick.
  8. Jack was much quicker than the llama was.
  9. Joe ate the hot dog even though the llama told him not to.
  10. Jill drove the car out to the llama’s house.
  11. Bonus for +1: If you use a dependent clause as a sentence, that mistake is called a _____

 

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