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Roots
Root Meanings
Grammar
Commonly Confused
Potpourri
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This root means "to do"
What is act?
100
The meaning of the root "nav"
What is ship?
100
This type of punctuation should be used after introductory phrases and clauses.
What is a comma?
100
The spelling of a word that means the administrator of a school
What is p r i n c i p a l ?
100
A form of figurative language that compares two objects using the words "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
200
This root means "break"
What is rupt?
200
The meaning of the root mar.
What is sea?
200
This type of punctuation encloses explanatory or interrupting information.
What are parentheses.
200
To give information that could be personally beneficial.
What is advise or counsel?
200
Figurative language in which an inanimate object is given human qualities or actions.
What is personification?
300
This root refers to people.
What is pop?
300
The meaning of the root word in "biology"
What is life?
300
Adverbs modify what three other parts of speech?
What are verbs, adjectives, adverbs?
300
The spelling of the word that compares two things.
What is t h a n ?
300
This literarty term is what is caused by characters' desires and drives the plot.
What is conflict?
400
This is the root of the word that means to go against terrorism.
What is counter?
400
According to its root definitions, the meaning of telegram?
What is far away writing?
400
The improper use of a comma to separate two independent clauses.
What is a comma splice?
400
The first is a contraction, the second shows ownership.
What is w h o ' s and w h o s e?
400
The difference between author and speaker.
What is the author is the person who wrote the poem, the speaker is the person who is tells the poem?
500
These two roots put together could mean "to put down in writing"
What is de and scribe?
500
The meaning of the root in which you could attach the prefixes in- or -ex.
What is close?
500
You should never separate these two sets of parts of speech with a colon.
What is a verb and its complement, and a preposition and its object.
500
The difference between which, that, and who.
What is who only refers to people, which only refers to things, that can be used for both.
500
The difference between explicit and implicit details.
What is explicit details are derived only from the text while implicit details require inference.