Literary Analysis and
Composition 2014-2015
Wednesday, March 11
GUM 9.1
Vocabulary 8.1, 8.2
GUM 9.1
• What are our lesson objectives?
• What will I be able to do by the end of this lesson?
• I will be able to:
• In verb phrases, use helping verbs that agree in
number with their subjects.
• Use verbs that agree in number with their
subjects.
How can subjects and verbs agree?
• Both subjects and verbs have number; they are either
singular or plural. Subjects and verbs must agree in number.
• Singular subjects require singular verbs.
• He likes rice, but Laura does not.
• Plural subjects require plural verbs.
• They walk to the park, but the dogs run.
• When a sentence has a verb phrase, the subject must agree
with the first helping verb.
• Joseph has been practicing his drum routine.
• Even when a word, phrase, or clause comes between a
subject and its verb, the subject and verb must still agree.
• Joseph, a stickler for perfection in all things, has been
practicing his drum routine.
Let’s Practice!
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http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgishl/quiz.pl/agreement_add1.htm
Vocabulary 8.1 and 8.2
• What is our lesson objective?
• What will I be able to do by the end of this lesson?
• I will be able to:
• Define and use words with Greek and Latin roots.
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the word that correctly completes the
sentence.
• When Matt broke his left arm, he wrote with his
right. Fortunately, he’s ___________.
• A. deflect
• B. dexterity
• C. ambidextrous
• D. digital
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the word that correctly completes the
sentence.
• It takes a lot of __________ to be able to master
karate.
• A. deflect
• B. genuflect
• C. inflection
• D. dexterity
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the word that correctly completes the
sentence.
• It’s important for a spaceship to be able to _______
weapons fire from its enemies.
• A. deflect
• B. genuflect
• C. reflection
• D. manifest
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the word that correctly completes the
sentence.
• He didn’t see me when I poured out his Coke and
put prune juice in the can; I was very
____________.
• A. surreptitious
• B. rapacious
• C. rapt
• D. emancipate
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the word that correctly completes the
sentence.
• When the angry man in the Elmo costume was
arrested, the police put ________(s) on him.
• A. mandate
• B. manifest
• C. manipulate
• D. manacle
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the word that correctly completes the
sentence.
• Mr. Smith meant to say “Hello” to the Wong
family, but his _________ was wrong and he
accidentally said a swear word.
• A. reflection
• B. inflection
• C. deflect
• D. genuflect
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the word that correctly completes the
sentence.
• During part of American history, the fervor for
westward expansion was called _______ Destiny.
• A. mandate
• B. manipulate
• C. rapacious
• D. manifest
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the word that correctly completes the
sentence.
• When a U. S. president is elected by the electoral
college but fails to win the popular vote, it is said
that he lacks a popular ___________.
• A. rapacious
• B. digital
• C. manipulate
• D. mandate
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the word that correctly completes the
sentence.
• I thought my new mohawk was awesome until I
saw my _________ in the mirror.
• A. reflection
• B. deflect
• C. genuflect
• D. mandate
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the word that correctly completes the
sentence.
• The pirate was _________; he could never get
enough booty.
• A. digital
• B. rapacious
• C. dexterity
• D. deflect
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the word that correctly completes the
sentence.
• When the cast of Doctor Who started to tell stories
behind the scenes, I was _______ with attention.
• A. rapacious
• B. rapt
• C. reflection
• D. inflection
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the word that correctly completes the
sentence.
• President Lincoln signed the __________(ion)
Proclamation in 1863, which freed the slaves.
• A. manacle
• B. emancipate
• C. mandate
• D. manifest
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the word that correctly completes the
sentence.
• In a Catholic church, there are kneelers that make
it more comfortable to _________.
• A. deflect
• B. emancipate
• C. reflection
• D. genuflect
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the word that correctly completes the
sentence.
• Photoshop makes it easier to ________ digital
images.
• A. manacle
• B. reflection
• C. manipulate
• D. genuflect
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the word that correctly completes the
sentence.
• Photoshop makes it easier to manipulate ________
images.
• A. dexterity
• B. deflect
• C. manifest
• D. digital