Unit 9: Day 1

1. Unit 9: Day 1 1. Far from being _______, the director's casting choices were based on an understanding of each actor's abilities and limitations. • 2. Wasn't it ______ of you to offer the coach advice on your very first day on the team? • 3.  Americans should be zealous supporters of liberty. • 4. Compose a sentence using a PREP PHRASE (review) & the word DEVIATE

2. Unit 9: Day 2 • 1. She changes her mind so frequently that it seems like every choice she makes is a ________ decision on her part. • 2. Those who _______ from the expectations set forth by the drill sergeant are frequently ___________ for their unacceptable behavior. • 3. I took plentiful notes in Chemistry. • 4. Compose a sentence using the word ALLOCATE and include a person's name in the sentence

3. Unit 9: Day 3 • 1. The teacher decided to _______ a corner of the classroom for an exhibition of student projects. • 2. Though some of my friends are mature for their age, others are most decidedly ________. • 3.The victims deserve compensation equal to their loss. • 4. Compose a sentence using the word INKLING an appositive phrase

4. Unit 9: Day 4 • 1. General Grant accepted Lee's surrender with quiet dignity, refusing to _____ over the defeat of his foe. • 2. If you want to recover quickly, you must not _______ from the doctor's orders. • 3. The story is a bittersweet tale of love and loss. • 4. Compose a sentence using the word COPIOUS and an appositive phrase

5. Unit 9: Day 5 • 1. Remembering my friend who was always robust and muscular in school, I was shocked to see how _______ he had become after his long illness. • 2. My travels have shown me that many exotic foods I once considered disgusting are really quite _____. • 3. Rewrite & combine.  Include Appositive phrase. • The senior class strayed from the normal class trip to New York City when they chose to visit Albany instead.  Albany is the capital of New York State.

6. Unit 9: Day 6 • 1. When he told me he was reading Huckleberry Finn for the third time, I realized that he was a(n) _______ admirer of the novel. • 2. There can be no ______ for the pain & suffering that your carelessness has caused! • 3. Rewrite & combine.  Include Appositive phrase. • Roosevelt was President during the depression of the 1930s.  He seems to give the entire nation new strength from his abundant energy & enthusiasm.

7. Unit 9: Day 7 • 1. The tastes of TV viewers are so ____ that no one can predict in advance which programs will be successful. • 2. What she lacks in skill, she makes up for with her ______ nature and attention to detail.  • 3. Rewrite & combine.  Include Appositive phrase. • The UN is an organization of independent states supporting international peace and security.  It is not an all-powerful organization because it can do only what the member states allow it to do.

8. Unit 9: Day 8 • 1. Our meeting last week was marred by a heated debate over how to ____ the funds in this year's budget. • 2. Far from being effortless, her simple, _______ writing style is the result of her effort for clarity. • 3. Rewrite & combine.  Include Appositive phrase. • Alfred Lord Tennyson was a British writer.  He wrote about the bittersweet experience of remembering happier times.

9. Unit 9: Day 9 • 1. He tries to sound intelligent, but his superficial and self-important answers only display his _______ knowledge of world affairs. • 2. The cruel headmasters mission in life was to ______ those boarding students who failed to live up to the impossible standards he set for them. • 3. Rewrite & combine. Include appositive phrase. • Agnes is an elderly, homeless woman.  I cringed when I saw her misshapen and weather-beaten fingers.

10. Unit 9: Day 10 • 1. In American government, we have checks and balances so no one branch can be _________________. • 2. ____________ is never so bitter as when it arises between friends. 3. Rewrite & combine. Include appositive phrase. • The biology teacher is Mr. Adams. He has an enthusiastic interest in ecology.