roots
This root word means 'life.'
What is bio?
This prefix means two.
What is bi-?
This is a particular kind of clause.
I arrived in class.
What is an independent clause?
This verb might be used to mean someone is drawing a conclusion about a situation.
What is 'surmise'?
To refuse an offer is one thing, to refuse with a bit of an attitude, is more of a __________________.
What is rebuff?
This root is used in referring to a physician who specializes in treating medical issues with FEET.
What is pod/o?
This prefix means three.
what is tri-?
The word 'girl' in the following sentence, has a specific name.
Jill, the new girl, sat next to me.
What is an appositive?
When you have a lot of difficult text-book reading and need to understand it all in order to use it later, it might be said you need to fully ____________________ the information.
What is 'assimilate'?
It's too soon to make a ________________________ after asking only three or four people to take a survey.
What is a conjecture?
These two roots respectively would be used to describe someone who:
WROTE about
STARS
What are the roots
GRAPH and
ASTRO
These two suffixes both indicate a word is science-related.
What are the roots
-ology and
-ics?
The word 'musician' in the following sentence is a particular kind of predicate.
Fiona is a musician.
What is a predicate nominative?
An adjective to describe someone who does bold and daring things.
What is 'audacious'?
The meanings of three roots respectively"
fear
to steal
intense craving, loss of reason
What are
phob
klept/o and
mania?
A root that referred to a sailor
and a root that referred to measuring
might be related when talking about ocean exploration.
What are the roots:
NAUT and
METR?
These two suffixes both mean "condition."
What are
osis and
ia?
There is a kind of sentence that has to be reorganized before it can be diagrammed.
What is a question?
In this scenario, three words could be used to replace the descriptions for the person mentioned.
"John, the owner of the card shop, was meticulous and careful with his finances and preferred to do business under an assumed name.
What are
proprietor
conscientious and
psuedonym?
The following clause has a particular name:
When we got to the train station
What is a dependent clause?
These three roots are used to indicate a number-of, or a size-of.
What are mono, poly, and macro?
These three suffixes are used commonly to make words into adjectives.
What are
-y
-ic
-oid
The following examples include a particular kind of verb.
*Jamie will help with the groceries.
*Dan didn't go to the party.
What are helping verbs?
When two people need to plan together in order to present a consistent story.
What is corroborate?
The part of speech of the word 'swimming' in the following sentence...
Swimming is fun exercise.
What is a gerund?