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This is the language English bases its grammar off of.
What is Latin?
When told "I got a 100 on the Econ test!” this meaning is implied by the shorthand phrase "How?"
What is “How did you get a 100?”
For the phrase “she carried herself like a princess,” the word “princess” is used as this type of word.
What is a noun?
What is the controversial word choice could be corrected to in the following phrase:
“Each of the variants indicated in boldface type count as an entry”
What is counts?
The correct word for the following phrase:
"The family couldn’t believe how (fortunate/fortuitous) it had been to find that deposit of gold on their property."
What is fortunate?
Fortunate: A favorable outcome due to luck or fortune vs Fortuitous: Occurring on accident and not by design.
From the words antibiotic, antagonist, antipodes, and anniversary, this word contains a Latin root.
What is anniversary?
When told “I crashed your car…” these meanings are implied by the shorthand response "What?! Where?! How?!”
What is “What do you mean you crashed my car? Where did you crash it? How did you manage to do that?”
Although the word “rich” is more commonly thought of as a ____, it is used as a _____ in the phrase “the rich get richer.”
What is an adjective and noun?
What is the controversial word choice could be corrected to in the following phrase:
“Prestige is one of the few words that has had an experience opposite to that described in ‘Worsened Words’”
What is have?
The correct word for the following phrase:
"We had to (forgo/forego) our club meeting for the basketball game, and now we won’t get to meet this week"
What is forgo?
Forgo: To do without something vs Forego: To have something occur before something else in place of it.
In Latin, you can not split an infinitive.
True or false? You can not split an infinitive in English.
What is false?
When told "I would jump out of a plane for $100!” this is the meaning of the shorthand response “Would you? Could you? Why?”
What is “Would you really jump out of a plane for $100? Could you actually bring yourself to do that? Why would you do such a thing for just $100?”
Although the word “broken” is a ___ tense participle, the phrase “he’ll have broken the school record.” is in the ____ tense.
What is past and future?
What is the controversial word choice could be corrected to in the following phrase:
“A range of sentences forming statements, commands, questions and exclamations cause us to draw on a more sophisticated battery of orderings and arrangements.”
What is causes?
The correct word for the following phrase:
"The teen continued to (flaunt/flout) her rebellious nature, despite her parents setting up a curfew"
What is flaunt?
Flaunt: To show off vs. Flout: To disregard rules or convention
In Latin, there are up to 120 inflections for verbs.
True or False? English never has more than 5 inflections for a verb
What is True?
Ex: see, sees, saw, seeing, seen
However, English can usually manage with 3 (ex: hit, hits, hitting)
A stranger runs up to you and shouts, “I AM THE CHOSEN ONE!” This is the meaning of the shorthand response “So? And? Since when?
What is “So what does that mean? And why should I care? Since when are you the chosen one?”
For the phrases “I am suffering terribly” and “my suffering is terrible,” the word “suffering” is operating as a ____ and ____ respectively
What is verb and noun?
What is the controversial word choice could be corrected to in the following phrase:
“When his fellowship expired he was offered a rectorship at Boxworth…on condition that he married the deceased rector’s daughter.”
What is marry?
The correct word for the following phrase:
"Though it was intriguing, the businessperson was (uninterested/disinterested) in the state of the stock market."
What is disinterested?
Uninterested: Having no bias or opinion vs Disinterested: Having no stakes in a matter.
Of the words epilepsy, leniency, liberty, and linguistics, this word contains a Greek root.
What is epilepsy?
When told "I took your dog on a walk" by a friend, the response "What do you mean you took my dog on a walk? When did you take him?” can be reduced to this shorthand.
What is "What? When?"
Of the words “deadly,” “sleepily,” “quickly,” and “sickly,” these are adjectives.
What are sickly and deadly?
“Sleepily” and “quickly” are adverbs.
What is the controversial word choice could be corrected to in the following phrase:
“It is of interest to speculate about the amount of dislocation to the spelling system that would occur if english dictionaries were either proscribed or ( as when Malory or Sir Philip Sidney were writing) did not exist.”
What is was?
The correct word for the following phrase:
"The scholar (riffle/rifle) quickly through the pages of the book, trying to find the section about prokaryotes."
What is riffle?
Riffle: Turn over something quickly and casually vs Rifle: Search through something hurriedly