Last but not least this morning, here is a worksheet on the verb consider as it is used with gerunds. I hope you will consider looking at it.
If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
“Commit Suicide. Instead if ‘He committed suicide,’ say, He killed himself, or, He took his life. For married we do not say ‘committed matrimony.’ Unfortunately most of us do say ‘got married,’ which is almost as bad. For lack of a suitable verb we just sometimes say committed this or that, as in the instance of bigamy, for the verb to bigam is a blessing that is still in store for us.”
Excerpted from: Bierce, Ambrose. Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2010.
This context clues worksheet on the transitive verb chasten was Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day at some point. This isn’t a particularly high-frequency word in English–nor is its noun, chaste–which is too bad, as these are useful words. For the purposes of this document, chasten means “to correct by punishment or suffering.” Remember that this verb is used only transitively, so don’t forget your direct object: the subject of your sentence must chasten something or someone.
(Incidentally, if you’re interested, chasten also means “discipline,” “purify,” “to prune (as a work or style of art) of excess, pretense, or falsity,” “refine,” “to cause to be more humble or restrained,” and “subdue.”)
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Here is another pair of Cultural Literacy worksheets that belong in the same post: the first on synonyms, which is a half page worksheet with a reading of two short sentences and two comprehension questions. The second, on antonyms, also has two short sentences as a reading, and two comprehension questions.
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Last but not least this morning, here is a context clues worksheet on the verb circumvent. It means “to hem in,” “to make a circuit around,” and “to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem.” This verb is used only transitively, so don’t forget your direct object: what are you circumventing?
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Here is a worksheet on the Greek word root rupt. It means “to break, burst.” This productive root yields in the English language a number of high-frequency words like disrupt, corrupt, bankrupt, and rupture. I suppose there is really nothing more to say than that.
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Here’s a pair of Cultural Literacy worksheets that must go out together: the the first on the comparative form of adjectives is a half-pager with a reading of two sentences, the second of them a long compound separated by several semicolons, and three comprehension questions . The second covers the superlative form of adjectives; this is a full-page worksheet with a reading of two sentences, the second a compound, with three comprehension questions and a fourth independent practice exercises
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“Rhetorical Figure: An artful arrangement of words to achieve a particular emphasis and effect, as in apostrophe, chiasmus, and zeugma. A rhetorical figure does not alter the meanings of words as a metaphor may do. The repetitions in these lines from Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “St Winefred’s Well” are rhetorical in their emphasis and echoing:
‘T. What is it, Gwen, my girl? Why do you hove and haund me?
W. You came by Caerwys, sir?
V. I came by Caerwys
W. There
Some messenger there might have met/met you from my uncle.
T. Your uncle met the messenger-/met me; and this is the message:
Lord Bueno comes to night./
W. To night, sir!'”
Excerpted from: Cuddon, J.A. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. New York: Penguin, 1992.
Alrighty then (as Ace Ventura is wont to say), classes have ended in New York City high schools, and we’re into a round of mindless though high-stakes testing to enrich corporate educational publishers. So, as we reach the end of the school year, now seems as good a time as any to post this document on the verb celebrate as it is used with gerunds following it.
Incidentally, celebrate has both intransitive and transitive use.
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OK, last and probably least this morning, here is a on the verb phrase can’t help as it is used with gerunds. I’ve commented previously on my general dissatisfaction with these, but I’ll keep posting them until someone complains (which is unlikely).
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