Irregular Verbs
Common Mistakes
The Civil War
Leadership
Potpourri
100
After returning home from a long day, Ken (lay, lied, laid) on the couch for hours.
LAY
100
Its a big game day for the St. Mark's varsity basketball team.
It's - contraction for IT IS
100
Robert E. Lee surrendered at this place on April 9, 1865.
Appomattox Court House, Virginia
100
Doing the this can produce criticism, rejection, demotion and personal harm, but is done because it is discerned to be morally right.
What is the Highest Moral Action.
100
These are the three mandatory parts of an argumentative paragraph.
What are claim, data, and analysis.
200
Convicted by the state of Virginia, John Brown was (hanged, hung, hunged) for leading the raid on Harper's Ferry.
HUNG
200
Sometimes stepping outside in the sun can help those days when your feeling blue.
YOU'RE instead of YOUR
200
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in this part of the country.
All slaves in rebellious states.
200
The virtue of holding oneself to the highest code of conduct possible in order to lead one’s communities best and thereby earn the respect of one’s peers.
What is honor?
200
This is the part of your tripartite thesis that gets the reader on your side.
What is the qualification.
300
Test corrections have (proved, prove, proven) fruitful for those willing to take on the extra work.
proven AND proved
300
I see it their, on the table.
THERE
300
Explain John Buford's contribution to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Held high ground and defensive position (more explanation needed, judged by Coach Parker.)
300
St. Mark's defines this as habitual positive effectiveness.
What is leadership.
300
These are the four guiding questions for 8th grade humanities.
What makes a good society? What makes a good leader? What makes a good person? What is worth fighting for?
400
Honey, I (shrunk, shrank, shranked) the kids!
SHRUNK
400
My guilty conscious is spurring me toward admitting my mistake.
CONSCIENCE
400
This battle was considered the bloodiest day of the war.
Battle of Antietam.
400
The virtue that enables us to understand and share the feelings of another.
What is empathy.
400
What year was St. Mark's founded?
1906.
500
Coach Oprea has (swam, swum, swimmed) for the Transylvanian water polo squad, the Fightin' Vampires.
SWUM
500
With fewer time remaining that I thought, I suddenly realized we had less points than the other team.
Use "fewer" when discussing countable objects. Use "less" for intangible concepts, like time.
500
This was the first state to secede from the Union and the year.
South Carolina, 1860.
500
The ethical virtue that disposes one to risk personal harm in order to do what is just or honorable.
What is courage.
500
This is Coach Parker's favorite basketball team.
What is the Fightin' Texas Aggie basketball team, WHOOP!
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