Unit 2, Lesson 4
Green Team
4.16.15
Reading: Long
Passages
Unit 2
Strategy: Mark the Long Passages
Skim the question stems for the passages written by
Louisa May Alcott.
Read the passage, marking important words and
phrases as you go.
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Identify any opinions
Identify the purpose of each paragraph
Underline any key words or ideas
Include brief notes in the margin
Answer the questions. If you get stuck, eliminate as
many as possible and guess.
Writing
Multiple Choice:
Sentence Corrections
Unit 2
Review: Sentence Corrections
1. Playing ball, swimming in the pool, and a diet
without starchy foods help keep his weight
down.
A. a diet without starchy foods help
B. avoiding starchy foods help
C. dieting without starchy foods helps
D. avoiding starchy foods helps
E. a diet without starchy foods helped
Review: Sentence Corrections
• B is correct
• To maintain parallel structure with playing and
swimming the verb avoiding is required.
• The verb must agree with a compound (plural)
subject
Review: Sentence Corrections
2. Seatbelts, while unquestionably a good idea, it’s
sometimes a nuisance to use them.
A. Seatbelts, while unquestionably a good idea, it’s
sometimes a nuisance to use them.
B. Seatbelts, while unquestionably a good idea, are
sometimes a nuisance.
C. Seatbelts are unquestionably a good idea and also they
are sometimes a nuisance.
D. Seatbelts, while unquestionably a good idea, but
sometimes a nuisance.
E. Seatbelts, while it’s unquestionably a good idea to have
them, it’s sometimes a nuisance to use them.
Review: Sentence Corrections
• B is correct
• Seatbelts needs a verb, and it keeps the
sentence from making sense
• Choice C offers the verb, but it’s too wordy and
awkward
Review: Sentence Corrections
3. Your application for a scholarship arriving late,
however: it will still be considered by the committee.
A. arriving late, however; it will still be considered by
the committee
B. arrived late, however the committee will consider it
still
C. arrived late; however, the committee will still
consider it
D. will be considered by the committee that arrived
late
E. arriving late and is being considered by the
committee
Review: Sentence Corrections
• C is correct
• however is not a coordinating conjunction
(FANBOYS), so it cannot be used to join
independent clauses with a comma. B is out.
• Option D confuses the modifier. The other
options do not create complete sentences.
Review: Sentence Corrections
4. Living in the city for the first time, the traffic
noise, she found, disrupted her sleep.
A. the traffic noise, she found, disrupted her
sleep
B. she found that the traffic noise disrupted her
sleep
C. she found out how the traffic noise disrupted
her sleep
D. her sleep, she found, was disrupted by the
traffic noise
E. her sleep disrupted, she found, by traffic noise
Review: Sentence Corrections
• B is correct
• The original sentence says traffic noise lives in
the city; the modifier is connected to the wrong
subject.
• B provides the correct subject for the modifier. C
also provides the correct subject, but that should
be used in place of how.
Sentence & Paragraph Corrections
• Complete Paragraph Corrections #1, #2 and #3 in
your Kaplan Practice Packet.
• General Organization Questions
• Revising Sentences
• Combining Sentences
• Practice by completing 30-35 on pages 743-744.
Vocabulary
Unit 2
Sentence Completion Practice
20. Though a __ of four campaigns, he had never
seen action on the front lines.
21. The __ of the early morning light __ the room,
making it larger and cozier at once.
22. As a(n) __ of the original team, Mickey had
free __ for all their games.
23. From his __ manner, we could all tell that he
was of __ birth.
Sentence Completion Practice
24. The presence of armed guards __ us from
doing anything disruptive.
25. A careful __ of the house revealed no clues.
26. For his diligent work in astronomy, Professor
Wilson was __ at the banquet as __ of the Year.
27. Because of his __ sense of his own
importance, Larry often tried to __ our activities.
After making predictions, turn to page 98 to select
your answers.
Review: Vocabulary
Without your notes, identify a synonym for each
of the following:
• alleviate
• ascertain
• incredulous
• voracious
• stringent
• tact
24. arbitrary (adjective)
•unreasonable or unsupported
•synonyms: capricious,
inconsistent, irrational
25. oblivious (adjective)
•unmindful or unaware;
forgetful
•synonyms: blind, inattentive
26. volatile (adjective)
• evaporating rapidly; tending
or threatening to erupt in
violence, explosive
•synonyms: erratic, fickle
27. allege (verb)
• to assert without proof
•synonyms: charge, declare
28. personage (noun)
• a person of distinction or
importance
•synonyms: celebrity, dignitary
29. precursor (noun)
• a person or thing that
precedes, as in a job or
method
•synonyms: forerunner,
harbinger
30. demagogue (noun)
• an orator or political leader
who gains power by arousing
people’s emotions and
prejudices
•synonyms: agitator, firebrand,
hothead, inciter
Review: Sentence Completion
• Complete questions 1-9 on pages 604-605.