This reading on Rocky Marciano and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet were of high interest to number of my students over the years.
Do you have students who are interested in the sweet science?
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“Conjunction: A word that joins words, phrases, clauses, or sentences. The coordinating conjunctions, and, but, or, not, yet, so, for, join grammatically equivalent elements. Correlative conjunctions (both, and; either, or; neither, nor) join the same kinds of elements.”
Excerpted from: Strunk, William Jr., and E.B. White. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition. New York: Longman, 2000.
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Christopher Nolan, the director of numerous high-gloss speculative fiction (i.e. science fiction) movies has a new film called Tenet awaiting release, which is to say awaiting the day when people return to movie theaters.
So now seems like as good a time as any to offer this English usage worksheet on the nouns tenant and tenet.
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If you can use it, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Russian mystic Rasputin, the debauched monk who hastened the exit of the Romanov Dynasty from the stage of history.
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“And So. And Yet. ‘And so they were married.’ ‘And yet a woman.’ Omit the conjunction.”
Excerpted from: Bierce, Ambrose. Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2010.
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Tagged diction/grammar/style/usage
Because it’s the Word of the Day today at Merriam-Webster’s, here is context clues worksheet on the verb mesmerize. It’s used only transitively, so don’t forget your direct object.
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Alright, last but not least today, here is an independent practice worksheet on Plato if you can use it.
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OK, esteemed colleagues, here is a worksheet on the Greek word roots pod and pode. They mean foot and feet. These are a couple of very productive roots in English, and sometimes morph into pede–e.g. centipede. Any student with an interest in the healthcare professions would probably benefit from a look at this document.
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“Compound Subject: Two or more simple subjects joined by a coordinating or correlative conjunction. Hemingway and Fitzgerald had little in common.”
Excerpted from: Strunk, William Jr., and E.B. White. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition. New York: Longman, 2000.
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It’s the Word of the Day at Merriam-Webster today, so here is a context clues worksheet on the noun anomaly. This is surely a good word to know, with use in several domains of knowledge.
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