Unit 1, Lesson 2
Blue Team
9.17.14
Strategy: Understand Common Mistakes
• Complete Usage Common Mistakes # 1-4 in
Kaplan Packet
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Subject-Verb Agreement When Subject Follows Verb
Subject-Verb Agreement When Subject and Verb are Separated
Subject-Verb Agreement When the Subject Seems Plural
Confusion of Simple Past and Past Participle
• Practice by answering #5 on page 143 and #8 on
page 147
• Additional practice: pages 176-187
Sentence Errors
Unit 1
Strategy: Understand Common Mistakes
• Complete Usage Common Mistakes # 1-4 in
Kaplan Packet
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Subject-Verb Agreement When Subject Follows Verb
Subject-Verb Agreement When Subject and Verb are Separated
Subject-Verb Agreement When the Subject Seems Plural
Confusion of Simple Past and Past Participle
• Practice by answering #5 on page 143 and #8 on
page 147
• Additional practice: pages 176-187
Vocabulary
Unit 1
Review: Vocabulary
Provide the correct vocabulary word for each of
the following antonyms:
a.
b.
c.
d.
assuage
focus
unrealistic
disparage
Review: Vocabulary
a.
b.
c.
d.
assuage: provoke
focus: digress
unrealistic: pragmatic
disparage: advocate
9. ambivalent
•simultaneously experiencing
opposite feelings; uncertain
•synonyms: conflicted,
equivocal, mixed
10. esoteric (adjective)
•intended for or understood
only by a small group
•synonyms: obscure, hidden
11. ingenuity (noun)
•quality of being cleverly
inventive or resourceful
•synonyms: brilliance, genius,
dexterity
12. substantiate (verb)
•to support with proof or
evidence; to verify
•synonyms: validate, justify,
affirm
13. sentiment (noun)
•an attitude, feeling, or opinion;
refined or tender emotion
•synonyms: position, tendency;
softheartedness
14. abstruse (adjective)
•difficult to understand
•synonyms: perplexing,
complex
15. eradicate (verb)
•to get rid of as if by tearing up
by the roots; to abolish
•synonyms: annihilate, erase
16. autonomy (noun)
•independence; selfdetermination
•synonyms: sovereignty, selfrule
Strategy: Predict an Answer/Find a
Synonym
Robert was extremely ___ when he received a B
on the exam, for he was almost certain he had
gotten an A.
Strategy: Predict an Answer/Find a
Synonym
Robert was extremely ___ when he received a B
on the exam, for he was almost certain he had
gotten an A.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
elated
dissatisfied
fulfilled
harmful
victorious
Strategy: Predict an Answer/Find a
Synonym
Predict an answer, and then turn to page 96 to make
actual selections.
3. With the discovery of a(n) ___ alternative fuels
source, oil prices dropped significantly.
4. The product of a ___ religious home, he often found
___ in prayer.
5. Our ___objections finally got us thrown out of the
stadium.
6. We should have ___trouble ahead when the road
___ into a gravel path.
7. The ___of the house, fresh lobster, was gone, so we
___ourselves with crab.