Here is a worksheet on the verb explain as it is used with a gerund. I’ve explained my doubting the value of these documents.
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Here is a reading on blood along with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet if you health or life sciences teachers can use them.
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Here is a worksheet on the Greek word root tax/o. It means, simply, arrangement. So of course you’ll find this root at the base of words like taxonomy and syntax–both included on this document. However, you’ll also find on this document some scientific words, e.g. geotaxis, phyllotaxis, and thermotaxis, that are not exactly part of the vernacular.
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Do you hear kids bandying about the word “anal” to describe their more fastidious or compulsive classmates? I think I have heard it at least once a year since I became a teacher. It’s mostly used properly, but when it isn’t, this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the anal personality might help to clarify things. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of two compound sentences and three comprehension questions.
There’s no mention of Sigmund Freud here, which is an interesting omission considering that the anal stage is the second part of his theory of psychosexual development. This worksheet, again, just explains the basics of the anal personality’s characteristics as (from the text) “…excessive orderliness, extreme meticulousness, and often suspicion and reserve.”
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It was almost certainly a Word of the Day at Merriam-Webster during the pandemic, so here is a context clues on the verb deracinate. It means “uproot,” and “to remove or separate from a native environment or culture; especially to remove the racial or ethnic characteristics or influences from.” In other words, to some extent, the melting pot of American culture and society is to some extent a deracinating process.
This verb is used (if it is used at all anymore) only transitively. Don’t forget your direct object.
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Adapted from Paul Brians‘ excellent book Common Errors in English Usage (to which he allows access at no charge under this hyperlink), here is a worksheet on the use of the nouns individual and person in declarative sentence. This is a full-page worksheet with only the short reading from Mr. Brians’ book: the actual work for this document is a free-write using both individual and person in sentences, and then assessing which word sounds better in prose.
And that is pretty much it.
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Coming to the end of this morning round of publishing, here is a worksheet on the verb escape when used with a gerund. I escaped considering the quality of this material by putting on some Three Stooges shorts.
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Moving along on this run I’m on this morning, here is a reading on Robert Oppenheimer along with its attendant vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. He’s always been a figure who interested me–mostly for the crisis of conscience he suffered for what he unleashed on the world.
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Here is a worksheet on the Latin word root trans. It means, variously, across, through, change, and beyond. You recognize it, I am confident, as the root of such words–all included on this document–as transact, transcribe, transfer, and transit. And of course you’ll find it in all kinds oc commonly used English words like transport and transcend, both of which indicates one of this roots connotations: not just across, but to move across.
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It’s not much used anymore, I think (and I don’t know if I’ve ever heard it beyond a couple of farms I worked on in the late 1970s), but here, nonetheless, is a Cultural worksheet on the proverb “the bad workman always blames his tools.” This is a half-page worksheet with a two-sentence reading. Short and sweet–but perhaps a nice little exercise in thinking abstractly.
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