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2 nd Quarter Benchmark Review

This review covers the different types of pronouns, modifiers, prepositions, and conjunctions. It also includes word study on suffixes and prefixes. Get ready to enhance your language arts skills!

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2 nd Quarter Benchmark Review

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  1. 2nd Quarter Benchmark Review Language Arts Ms. C. Smith

  2. PRONOUNS

  3. Question Throw it into the trash can before you make a mess. • Nominative • Objective • Possessive • Reflexive • Indefinite

  4. When we saw them at the game, I asked if they would like to have dinner with us sometime soon. • Nominative • Objective • Possessive • Reflexive • Indefinite

  5. When will your mom be back home? • Nominative • Objective • Possessive • Reflexive • Indefinite

  6. She will be around in a little while to ask for volunteers to help with the bake sale. • Nominative • Objective • Possessive • Reflexive • Indefinite

  7. Someone will need to take the garbage out to the street in the morning. • Nominative • Objective • Possessive • Reflexive • Indefinite

  8. I gave her the money so that she could buy her own lunch. • Nominative • Objective • Possessive • Reflexive • Indefinite

  9. Eleanor wanted the cat to eat its food in the laundry room. • Nominative • Objective • Possessive • Reflexive • Indefinite

  10. That man is talking to himself. • Nominative • Objective • Possessive • Reflexive • Indefinite

  11. Everyone needs to bring ________ book to class today.

  12. Eleanor wanted the cat to eat _____ food in the laundry room.

  13. Please ask Samuel to put the carpet cleaner back on ______recharging stand.

  14. They ate it all ________________.

  15. The winners were Kim and _________. (I or me?)

  16. If a person wants to succeed in corporate life, _______have to know the rules of the game.

  17. I have tickets for a movie. • They gave me the task. • The pleasure is mine. • You should take your computer to a better repair shop. • He will meet her at noon. • Trisha and Rose bought theirs at the bazaar.

  18. MODIFIERS The other day I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I'll never know. -- Groucho Marx

  19. Jennifer called her adorable kitten opening the can of tuna and filled the food bowl.

  20. Portia rushed to the store loaded with cash to buy the birthday gift.

  21. Playing solitaire on the computer for three hours, Michael’s paper was not completed.

  22. Locked away in the old chest, Richard was surprised by the antique hats.

  23. PREPOSITIONS

  24. The book on the bathroom floor is swollen from shower steam.

  25. The sweet potatoes in the vegetable bin are green with mold.

  26. The note from Beverly confessed that she had eaten the leftover pizza.

  27. Before class, Josh begged his friends for a pencil.

  28. Feeling brave, we tried the Dragon Breath Burritos at Tito's Taco Palace.

  29. CONJUNCTIONS

  30. Conjunctions Coordinating - FANBOYS Subordinating - AAAWWUBBIS AFTER ALTHOUGH AS WHILE WHEN UNTIL BEFORE BECAUSE IF SINCE • FOR • AND • NOR • BUT • OR • YET • SO

  31. Every day was a happy day, and every night was peaceful. (E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web)

  32. Before the plate hit the table, Louie leaned forward like a snake striking and hit the stack of pancakes with his fork. (Gary Paulsen, Harris and Me)

  33. Celia says you’re in shock, but I think you’re just lazy. (Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion)

  34. When I pop in a Bird CD, it’s like I feel myself filling up with Zeke. (Tracy Mack, Birdland)

  35. It was almost time for science, her best subject, so it would be easy for Judy to pay attention. (Megan MacDonald, Judy Moody Gets Famous)

  36. If there was an Olympic contest for talking, Shelly Staffs would sweep the event. (Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped)

  37. Word Study • suffix –cy, -ence/-ance to identify words • prefixes anti- and counter- to identify words • roots “gen”, “ject”, and “man”

  38. –cy • Advocacy - An active verbal support for a cause or position. • Bureaucracy - Administration of a government chiefly through bureaus or departments staffed with nonelected officials. • Autocracy - Absolute government. • Democracy - Government by the people • Illiteracy – the state of having a lack of ability to read and write • Immediacy - The quality or condition of being immediate. • Inadequacy - A lack of an adequate quantity or number.

  39. -cy or -acy • Latin: state, quality, condition, or act of (a suffix that forms nouns)

  40. -ence/-ance • Importance – the quality or state of being important • Entrance – an act of entering • Audience – the act of hearing or attending to words or sounds • Intelligence - the act of gathering or distributing information for learning • Appearance – the act of appearing • Conference – the act of conferring or talking; meeting • Independence – the act of being free from control or influence • Allowance – the act of allowing

  41. The suffixes -ance and -ence mean “quality of” or “state of.” • Words ending in these suffixes are usually nouns.

  42. prefixes anti- • antibacterial - A cleanser that works against bacteria(germs • Antiballistic – A missile that works against a ballistic missile by intercepting and destroying it in flight. • antibiotic - A substance, such as penicillin, produced by certain fungi that can counteract the growth of bacteria. Antibiotics are widely used in the prevention and treatment of diseases such as pneumonia. • anticoagulant - A substance that prevents blood from coagulating (becoming clots) • Anticrime - against crime • antidote - A remedy used to counteract the effects of a poison, a bad day, unhappiness. • antihistamine - A drug used to counter the effects of the body’s histamine production in allergic reactions and colds

  43. anti- : Greek prefix meaning "against, not, opposite, opposing, counteracting"

  44. Counterargument – a contrasting or opposing argument • Counterattack – an attack made as a reply to another attack • Counterproductive – defeating ones purpose, not productive in ones attempt to reach a goal • Countermeasure – an act taken to offset another act • Counterfeit – pretend, not genuine, fake, forged • Counterclockwise – the direction that is opposite to the normal rotation of the clock hands

  45. Counter - • “against,” “contrary,” “opposite,” “in opposition or response to”

  46. roots “gen”, “ject”, and “man” • Gender project manual • Gene subject manuscript • Genesis inject manicure • Genius reject emancipate • Genealogy interjection manipulate

  47. Match up • Race and / or kind of • To throw and/ or lie • Using the hand • Man • Ject • Gen

  48. MOOD & TONEandCharacters

  49. The mood of the story is the ___________ you get when reading it.

  50. An author’s _________ indicates how he/she views a character or his/her opinions about a character.

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