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Unit 1, Lesson 2

Unit 1, Lesson 2. 2.10.14 Blue Team. Sentence Errors . Unit 1. Strategy: Understand Common Mistakes. Complete Usage Common Mistakes # 1-4 in Kaplan Packet Subject-Verb Agreement When Subject Follows Verb Subject-Verb Agreement When Subject and Verb are Separated

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Unit 1, Lesson 2

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  1. Unit 1, Lesson 2 2.10.14 Blue Team

  2. Sentence Errors Unit 1

  3. Strategy: Understand Common Mistakes • Complete Usage Common Mistakes # 1-4 in Kaplan Packet • 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

  4. Vocabulary Unit 1

  5. Review: Vocabulary Provide the correct vocabulary word for each of the following antonyms: • assuage • focus • unrealistic • disparage

  6. Review: Vocabulary • assuage: provoke • focus: digress • unrealistic: pragmatic • disparage: advocate

  7. 9. ambivalent • simultaneously experiencing opposite feelings; uncertain • synonyms: conflicted, equivocal, mixed

  8. 10. esoteric (adjective) • intended for or understood only by a small group • synonyms: obscure, hidden

  9. 11. ingenuity (noun) • quality of being cleverly inventive or resourceful • synonyms: brilliance, genius, dexterity

  10. 12. substantiate (verb) • to support with proof or evidence; to verify • synonyms: validate, justify, affirm

  11. 13. sentiment (noun) • an attitude, feeling, or opinion; refined or tender emotion • synonyms: position, tendency; softheartedness

  12. 14. abstruse (adjective) • difficult to understand • synonyms: perplexing, complex

  13. 15. eradicate (verb) • to get rid of as if by tearing up by the roots; to abolish • synonyms: annihilate, erase

  14. 16. autonomy (noun) • independence; self-determination • synonyms: sovereignty, self-rule

  15. 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.

  16. 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. • elated • dissatisfied • fulfilled • harmful • victorious

  17. 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.

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