SUBJECT - VERB AGREEMENT

Exercise 1: Underline the correct verb to use in the following sentences:

1. The news about the earthquakes ( was, were ) frightening.
2. All of the soup ( was, were ) eaten.
3. Fifty cents ( is, are ) more than enough.
4. At the top of the stairs ( is, are ) the two lights.
5. Each morning Tom or the children ( buys, buy ) fresh rolls at the bakery.

VERB TENSES

Exercise 2: Underline the verbs in the following sentences and identify their tenses

1. She is writing an article for the daily paper.
2. I had just mailed my brother a letter when he gives me a call.
3. John would have been more surprised have they sent him flowers instead of balloons.
4. Sylvia had swum to the other side of the river.
5. In 1949, my grandfather has found the job he was looking for.
6. They have been building the house when the rain came.
7. The earth is not flat.
8. She will be designing vintage clothes in the next few years.
9. I have walked a mile just to prove I had strong legs.
10. The girl is crying when I found her.
11. No matter how busy their mother is, she always finds time to be with her family.
12. Vancouver is in the west coast of Canada .
13. They could have saved the boy if they arrived on time.
14. Chances are, the food was spoiled.
15. Who would have thought he would win the award?

Verb Tenses Exercises

PART A

All of the following sentences should be completed using the Simple Present. You must use the words in the parentheses to fill in the blanks. Hint: pay attention to word order. If you are confused, go to the Simple Present Page.

EXAMPLE:
A) Tony (help, always) always helps his students when they have grammar difficulties.

1. John (be, not)__________ English, he is American.
2. Susan (take, always)____________ the bus to work.
3. I (speak, not)___________ Arabic. But Aziz (speak, well, English)___________, so he can help me.
4. Mr. Julius (swim, never)__________ in the ocean. He (be, really)___________ afraid of sharks.
5. Mary (be, not)____________ a very good student because she (do, not)___________ her homework.

PART B

All of the following sentences should be completed using the Simple Present. Hint: some of the sentences will require the passive verb form. If you are confused, go to the Active / Passive Page.

EXAMPLE:
a) John (feed, always) always feeds the neighbors' cat while they are on vacation.
b) The neighbors' cat (feed, always) is always fed by John while they are on vacation.

1. The library (locate)__________________ at 1207 Main Street.
2. Susan (ride, often)__________________ the bus to work.
3. The students (teach, usually) _______________ by Mrs. Brown, the new teacher from Boston.
4. I (study, not)_________________ at Georgetown University.
5. The earth (circle)_______________ the sun, but it (circles, not)_______________ the moon.

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PART A

All of the following sentences should be completed using the Simple Past or the Past Continuous. You must use the words in the parentheses to fill in the blanks. Hint: remember Non-continuous Verbs cannot be used in any continuous form. If you are confused, go to the Simple Past Page or the Past Continuous Page.

EXAMPLE:
A) Sally (make) was making dinner when I arrived.
B) Angered by the comment, John (jump) jumped up and (storm) stormed out of the room.

1. A: What (you, do) ___________________ when the accident occurred?
B: I (try)___________________ to change a light bulb that had burnt out.

2. After I (find)__________________ the wallet full of money, I (go, immediately) ___________________ to the police and (turn)_______________ it in.

3. The doctor (say)_________________ that Tom (be)__________________ too sick to go to work and that he (need)___________________ to stay at home for a couple of days.

4. Sebastian (arrive)___________________ at Susan's house a little before 9:00 pm, but she (be, not, still)____________________ there. She (study, at the library)______________________ for her final examination in French.

5. Sandy is in the living room watching television. At this time yesterday, she (watch, also) ______________________ television. That's all she ever does!

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PART A

All of the following sentences should be completed using the Simple Past or the Present Perfect. You must use the words in the parentheses to fill in the blanks. Hint: remember Non-continuous Verbs cannot be used in any continuous form. If you are confused, go to the Simple Past Page or the Present Perfect Page.

EXAMPLE
A) I (visit) visited my grandmother yesterday.
B) Sandra (travel) has traveled abroad several times.

1. A: Did you like the movie "Star Wars"?
B: I don't know. I (see, never)_____________________ that movie.

2. Sam (arrive)___________________ in San Diego a week ago.

3. My best friend and I (know)_______________________ each other for over fifteen years.

4. Stinson is a fantastic writer. He (write)______________________ ten very creative short stories in the last year. One day, he'll be as famous as Hemingway.

5. I (have, not)_____________________ this much fun since I (be)_______________ a kid.

SPELLING

Exercise 3:

A. Direction: Write C if the word is spelled correctly and W if it is misspelled. Write your answer in the space provided before each number.

_____1. Sonnet _____6. Comitments
_____2. Precipise _____7. Lamentation
_____3. Benumbed _____8. Mellancholy
_____4. Continual _____9. Reverie
_____5.Nonsencical _____10. Catastrophie

B Direction: Encircle the word with the correct spelling in each number.

1. madrigals madrigals madrigulls
2. colusion collussion collusion
3. edifise ediffice edifice
4. incandecense incandessence incandescence
5. impervious impervous impervuose

Prepositions
Encircle the correct preposition to use in the parenthesis.

1. I left the mall and walked (towards, forward, into) the nearest park.
2. Jana waited (for, in, to) the elevator (to, by, near) go down.
3. We eat lunch (among, between, under) the shade of a mango tree.
4. The man asked (for, with, through) directions going (to, from, before) the hospital.
5. Kristine’s bag was inspected (after, before, during) she was allowed to enter the mall.

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THIS I BELIEVE

ADULATION - n - to flatter or admire excessively

- Synonymous to adoration, praise, worship, exaltation, idolization, glorification, admiration, reverence

ALOOFNESS - adj. - removed, distant, physically or emotionally

AUTOCRATIC - adj. - government by one person having unlimited power

- Synonymous to tyrannical, oppressive, repressive, dictatorial

BOMBAST - n - pretentious wordy speech or writing

- Synonymous to pomposity, pretentiousness, posturing, affectation, swagger, bravado, bluster

BUSTLE - n - briskly energetic; work in a brisk, busy manner

CONTEMPTIBLE - adj. - deserving contempt; despicable

- Synonymous to disgraceful, shameful, disreputable, loathsome

DEGENERACY - n - the state of being degenerate; the process of becoming degenerate; perversion

- Synonymous to immorality, corruption, wickedness, evil, decadence, dissoluteness, wantonness, vice

DEGENERATE - n -fallen or deteriorated from a former, higher or normal condition

DESPICABLE - adj. - deserving to be despised

MILITIA - n - a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency

- Synonymous to armed force, private army, band of soldiers, mercenaries

ODIOUS - adj. - causing or deserving hatred or repugnance

- Synonymous to hateful, horrible, loathsome, revolting, detestable, repellent, repulsive, obnoxious

RAPT - adj. - Carried away with emotion; absorbed, engrossed

- Synonymous to captivated, gripped, enthralled, spellbound, wrapped up, immersed, fascinated

RENDERED - adj. - to give in return

SUBLIME - adj. - exalted, noble; having awe-inspiring beauty or grandeur

- Synonymous to glorious, splendid, superb, resplendent and gorgeous

HOW DO I LOVE THEE?

DEPTH - n - something that is deep

BREADTH - n - width; spaciousness

WE ALONE

DEVALUE - v - to lessen or, sometimes, annul the value or importance of something

REVOLUTION - n - in context with the selection, the word could mean ‘an uprising, or a reversal (radical change, reconstruction, revolution in ideas, political upheaval)’

SCARCE - adj. - identified as something that is ‘not common, hard to get, rarely seen’

ALONE - adj. - may refer to one’s lack of companionship (lone, isolated, unaccompanied, secluded, solo), one’s being unique, or exclusive of others (may be applied with the word “only”)

THE AMBITIOUS GUEST

DESPONDENCY - n - hopelessness

- Synonyms: Sadness, Misery

ARDOR - n - passion

- Synonyms: Enthusiasm, Zeal

NONSENSICAL - n - words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas

- Synonyms: Irrational, Senseless

NOTION - n - an individual's conception or impression of something known, experienced, or imagined

- Synonyms: Belief, Perception

PETRIFIED - v - to become stone or of stony hardness or rigidity

MIRTH - n - gladness or gaiety as shown by or accompanied with laughter

- Synonyms: Jollity, Entertainment

PEDESTAL - n - foundation

- Synonyms: Base, Stand

LONESOME - adj. - sad or dejected as a result of lack of companionship or separation from others

- Synonym: Alone

DREARY - adj. - Depressing in character or appearance

- Synonyms: Cheerless, Dull, Gloomy

PRIMITIVE - n - a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms

- A person who belongs to early stage of civilization

- Synonyms: Crude, Early, Not civilized

BENUMBED - adj. - having lost or been caused to lose interest because of overexposure

- Synonyms: Insensible, Numb, dulled

WAYFARER - n - walks from place to place

- Synonym: Journeyer

SEPULCHER - n - a chamber that is used as a grave

- Synonyms: Burial chamber, Sepulture

THROUGH THE TUNNEL

BESEECH - v - to beg for urgently or anxiously

CONVULSIVE - adj. - having the nature of a convulsion; having, producing, or marked by convulsions

DEFIANTLY - adv. - full of showing

FROND - n - a large leaf usually with many divisions

INCREDULOUS - adj. - unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true

INNUMERABLE - countless

JUT - v - to extend out, up, or forward

LIMPLY - adv. - To walk lamely, especially with irregularity, as if favoring one leg.

MYRIAD - n - a great number

PESTER - v - annoy

PROMONTORY - n - a prominent mass of land which overlooks lower lying land or a body of water (when it may be called a peninsula or headland)

THROBBING - n - to beat, pulsate, vibrate, etc.; to beat strongly or fast; palpitate, as the heart under exertion; to feel or express emotion; quiver with excitement

TRICKLE - v - To flow or fall in drops or in a thin stream; to move or proceed slowly or bit by bit: The audience trickled in.

THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE

THE NYMPH'S REPLY TO THE SHEPHERD

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

DIVERGED - v - to separate and go in a different direction or different directions

TRODDEN - v - compressed, flattened, crushed, trampled

UNDERGROWTH - n - bushes, small trees, or other vegetation growing beneath the trees in a forest

THE PEARL

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APPRAISE-assess the value or quality of

AVARICE - immoderate desire for wealth; cupidity.

CANOE - n - a narrow, keedless boat with pointed ends, propelled by a paddle or paddles.

COVEY - n - a group, set, or company.

FATIGUE - n - extreme tiredness, typically resulting from mental or physical exertion or illness

HAMMOCK - n - a bed made of canvas or of rope mesh and suspended by cords at the ends, used as garden furniture or on board a ship.

INDIGENT - adj. - lacking food, clothing, and other necessities of life because of poverty; needy; poor; impoverished.

MISSHAPEN - - not having a natural shape

RUT - n - a long deep track made by the repeated passage of the wheels of vehicles.

SCURRYING - - move hurriedly with short quick steps

STRENUOUS - - requiring or using great exertion

SUBSEQUENT - adj. - coming after some time

SUPPLIANT - adv. - Asking humbly and earnestly; beseeching.

2

RUBBLE - n - Rubble is broken stone, of irregular size and shape.

SPUTTER - v - To spit out or spray particles of saliva or food from the mouth in noisy bursts.

FEVERISH - adj. - having the symptoms of fever

adhered – obey, support

bulwark – defensive wall, protection

canoes – light narrow pointed boat

clump – cluster of things

crease – fold put in fabric

estuary – section of a river meeting the sea

flitted – move from place to place

flurry – burst of activity

gleam – shine brightly

hazy – visually obscured, imprecise

hummock – small hill or mound

incandescence – emission of light

lateen - having triangular sail

mirage – optical illusion

moaned – make low sound expressing pain

obscured – hard to understand

perceptible - detectable

poultice – moist substance applied to injury

receding – get farther away

rubble – rough stones as filler or bulk

speculatively – forming conclusions not based on fact

stern – strict, forbidding

strewn – scatter something, spread thing over area

tactful – having or showing concern about upsetting or offending people

undulating – move sinuously like waves

waded – walk in water

writhed – twist or squirm

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AMMONIA - n - a colorless, pungent, suffocating, highly water-soluble, gaseous compound, NH3, used chiefly for refrigeration and in the manufacture of commercial chemicals and laboratory reagents.

BENEDICTION - n -an utterance of good wishes

CARBINE - n - a light, gas-operated semiautomatic rifle

CONSECRATE - v - to set apart as sacred

COZEN - v - to deceive or trick

CROON - v - to hum, sing or murmur in a low tone

DISPARAGEMENT - n - something that lowers another or a person of worth or importance

DUSK - n - time just before dark

EMBER - n - piece of wood or coal that is still glowing in the fire

ESTUARY - n - broad mouth of a river

FRANTIC - adj. - very much excited

FURTIVE - adv. - done by stealth; secretive

GROPE - v - to feel about with the hands

HAMMOCK - n - a swinging couch or bed usually made of netting or canvas and slung by cords from supports at each end

HARPOON - n - a barbed spear or javelin used especially in hunting large fish or whales

INCANDESCENCE - n - the condition of a body where one glows and gives of light

POULTICE- a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions

PULQUE- a Mexican alcoholic beverage made from the fermented sap of various agaves

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benign – adj. - having a kind and gentle disposition or appearance

countenanced - n - calm expression

crevices – n - a narrow crack or opening

estuary - n - a water passage where the tide meets a river current

hibiscus – n - flowers: large, brightly colored, with prominent stamen tubes

insubstantial - adj. - not existing in reality

limbs – n - the outer edge of the apparent disk of the celestial body

slitting – n - a long narrow cut or opening

swaddled - v - to wrap a baby tightly in a soft material

timber - n -and covered with trees

vigor – n - intensity or forcefulness in the way something is done

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GLIDED - to move smoothly and continuously along, as if without effort or resistance, as a flying bird, a boat, or a skater.

SURGED - a strong, wavelike, forward movement, rush, or sweep: the onward surge of an angry mob.

DULLED - Lacking responsiveness or alertness; insensitive.

FRANTIC - desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.

HERRING - an important food fish, Clupea harengus harengus, found in enormous shoals in the North Atlantic.

SEARING - To char, scorch, or burn the surface of with or as if with a hot instrument. See Synonyms at burn¹.

-A condition, such as a scar, produced by searing.

EDIFICE - any large, complex system or organization.

LAMENT - to mourn for or over.

RUMMAGED - to search thoroughly or actively through (a place, receptacle, etc.), esp. by moving around, turning over, or looking through contents.

GOURD - a dried and excavated gourd shell used as a bottle, dipper, flask, etc.

FONDLED - to handle or touch lovingly, affectionately, or tenderly; caress: to fondle a precious object; to fondle a child.

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Pelted (p.68) – [verb] 1. To throw

2. To hurry

3. To rain heavily

Screeched (p.69) - [noun] a shrill or high pitched sound or cry

Rud (p.70) – [noun] 1. Redness/blush

2. Ruddle; Red ocher

Cricked (p.70) – [noun] a painful muscle spasm or cramp in the neck or back

Resinous (p.70) – [adj.] having the characteristics of pitch or tar

Sinister (p.71) – [adj.] suggesting, or warning of evil

Interwoven(p.71) – [adj.] linked/locked closely together as by dovetailing

Scuttled (p.73) – [verb] to run with short quick step

[Noun] a hurried pace or run

Tufts (p.76) – [verb] 1. To drag while walking

2. To scrape by doing so

[noun] 1. A mark caused by scuffing

2. The act or sound of scuffing

Crevices (p.78) – [noun] A narrow crack or gap in rock

Foliage (p.78) – [noun] Leaves

Clucked (p.80) – [noun] The call of a hen

[verb] to make such a sound.

SONNET 29 - Qylla Z, isa lang? really? srsly?

SULLEN - adj. - bad-tempered and sulky; gloomy

THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO

ACCOSTED - v - approached boldly

APERTURE - n – hole

CONNOISSEURSHIP - n - having an expert judge in matters of taste

IMMOLATION - n - the act of killing especially by burning

IMPUNITY - n - exemption from punishment or freedom from the injurious consequences of an action

OBSTINATE - adj. – stubborn

RAMPART - n – wall

REDRESS - v - set right

RHEUM - n - a watery fluid that collects in or drips from the nose or eyes

WONT - n - habit

A ROSE FOR EMILY

ALDERMEN - n - a member of a city legislative body

ARCHAIC – relating to or characteristics of an earlier or primitive time

BEMUSED – to occupy the attention of

BIDING – v - to continue in a state or condition

coquettish – a woman who endeavors without sincere affection to gain attention and admiration from men

CUPOLAS – a round vault usually resting on a circular base and forming a roof or a ceiling

deprecation – to express disapproval

DEPUTATION - n -group of people appointed to represent others

dispensation – a formal authorization

DIVULGE- Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

edict – a proclamation having the force of law

ENCROACHED - v - enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another

GROSS – immediately obvious; reasonably noticeable

HUMANIZED - v - to make more human

NICHE – n - a place, employment, status, or activity for which a person or thing is best fitted b: a habitat supplying the factors necessary for the existence of an organism or species c: the ecological role of an organism in a community especially in regard to food consumption

OBLITERATED – to remove utterly from recognition/memory; to remove from existence of others

OUTBUILDINGS - a building separate from but accessory to main house

PALLID - adj. -lacking sparkle or liveliness

PERPETUITY - n - a: the condition of an estate limited so that it will not take effect or vest within the period fixed by law; b: an estate so limited

REIN - n - One of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse
-Control and direct with or as if by reins; as of a horse

RIGGERS - n - Someone who rigs

SLUGGISHLY – marked slow in movement, flow or growth

SLUNK – to go or move in stealthily or furtively

SPIRES – a tapering roof or analogous pyramidal construction surmounting a tower

TEEMING – to be filled or overflowing; to be present in large quantity

TEMERITY – unreasonable or foolhardily contempt on danger or opposition

VANQUISHED – to gain mastery over

VINDICATED - v - Freed from any question of guilt

THE TIGER WHO WOULD BE KING

MENDING WALL

ABREAST - adv. - side by side facing in the same direction

ELVES - n - (in folklore) one of a class of preternatural beings, esp. from mountainous regions, with magical powers, given to capricious and often mischievous interference in human affairs, and usually imagined to be a diminutive being in human form; sprite; fairy.

NOTION - n - a conception or idea or general understanding; a vague or imperfect conception or idea of something.

ORCHARD - n - stretch of land with cultivated fruit trees; the trees collectively

SAVAGE - adj. - primitive, uncultivated

YELPING - v - making a sharp, high pitched cry, or a series of such cries

A SERVICE OF LOVE

ardent- a. passionate; eager

atelier- n. studio

elated- v. make proud

enamored- v. fill with love

feat- n. act or deed

furnace- n. structure in which heat is produced

gleefully- a. joyful

hastily- a. done in a hurry

obelisk- slender, tapering, four-sided pillar; pl. piece of real estate

premise- n. a basic assumption

prominent- a. 1 projecting 2 conspicuous; very noticeable 3 famous

promisingly- a. showing signs of future success

vaguely- adv. Indefinite; unclear

wearily- tired; bored

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