Vocabulary 2
What are ceilings?
This is the number of feet tall a building usually is in order to be called a "skyscraper."
What is 984?
If an adjective is short, add this ending to make it comparative.
What is -er?
A compound sentence is made up of two of this type of sentence, joined by a coordinating conjunction.
What is a simple sentence?
Besides Egypt, this is another country that has tall pyramids. (Hint: It also has cenotes!)
What is Mexico?
"Pricey" is an adjective that means the same as this, not cheap.
What is expensive?
This is the year when the newest of the skyscrapers named in the reading was built.
What is 2014? (One WTC)
With one-syllable adjectives ending in C-V-C (consonant-vowel-consonant) like hot, big, thin, etc.), this is the required spelling change to form the comparative.
What is change the y to i and add -er?
(What is changing the y to i and adding -er?)
This punctuation mark is used in the middle of a compound sentence.
What is a comma?
These are two types of buildings that can have spires.
What are cathedrals and skyscrapers?
If you want some exercise, you can use these to get to the upper floors of a building.
What are stairs?
Between the skyscraper in New York and the one in China, this is the name of the older one.
What is the Shanghai World Financial Center?
This is the word that we must add before an adjective of two syllables (not ending in -y) or longer to form the comparative.
What is more?
In a compound sentence, this is the placement or position of a comma in relation to a coordinating conjunction.
What is before?
If a building is called "green," it means that it is this.
What is good for the earth?
What is earth-friendly?
What is environmentally friendly?
These two places in buildings have doors through which you can go in and out.
What are entrances and exits?
This is how much more expensive One WTC was to build than the Burj Khalifa.
What is $2,400,000,000?
($2.4 billion)
This comparative phrase means "costing not as much money."
What is "less expensive"?
In a compound sentence of comparison, this is the phrase that you can omit (leave out) after "but."
What is "than" + noun phrase?
These are the two types of buildings that the TransAmerica building in San Francisco is.
What are pyramid and skyscraper?
This adjective is used to describe the style of older buildings or houses (not modern).
What is traditional?
What is Taipei?
(Taipei 101; Shanghai WFC has 101 floors)
This is the comparative form of Steve's favorite adjective.
What is more spectacular (than)?
These are all of the coordinating conjunctions in the acronym "FANBOYS."
What are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so?
This would be the comparative form of the adjective orderly.
What is more orderly?
(It ends in -y, but it's three syllables.)