Root Words
The meaning of the roots hydr, aqu, and aqua.
What is water?
Describes a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective?
The type of sentence that has an understood subject of "you" and expresses a command or request.
What is an imperative sentence?
The nonfiction story of a real person's life written by another person.
What is a biography?
Tree-ear is named after this.
What is a mushroom?
This means to study.
What is the root ology?
The FANBOYS (for, and, nor, or, but, yet, so)
What are coordinating conjunctions?
A sentence with two independent clauses joined by a comma and a FANBOYS conjunction.
What is a compound sentence?
A story told by the people of a certain country or culture and usually passed along by word of mouth.
What is a folktale?
What is celadon pottery?
The roots chron and temp both mean this.
What is time?
A noun that names ideas or feelings that cannot be perceived by our physical senses.
What is an abstract noun?
A sentence that contains an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
What is a complex sentence?
The author's message in a work of literature.
What is theme?
The genre of the novel.
What is historical fiction?
The roots mob/mot mean this.
What is move?
Nouns like backpack, doghouse, sister-in-law that are made up of more than one word.
What is a compound noun?
The type of clause that begins with a subordinating conjunction.
What are the three primary author purposes?
Tree-ear offers to go to Songdo to express gratitude towards this character.
Who is Ajima?
The two meanings of tend/tens/tent.
What is stretch/give?
Shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and other words in the sentence.
What is a preposition?
The type of appositive in the following sentence:
Mrs. Mayfield, my English teacher, helped us prepare for the midterm.
What is a nonrestricted appositive?
The way an author organizes what he writes.
What is text structure?
A person's integrity and good choices will likely be rewarded.
What is the theme of the novel?