Quarter 3 Vocabulary and Grammar

Question 1

What is stiff, untanned leather?

Accepted Answer

rawhide

Question 2

During the Civil War, President Lincoln made the Emancipation Proclamation. This meant that...

Accepted Answer

all slaves would receive freedom if the Union won the war

Question 3

What is the meaning of the base word "aero"?

Accepted Answer

air

Question 4

What is a mutiny?

Accepted Answer

an open rebellion

Question 5

What is the term for a sentence containing both a dependent clause and an independent clause?

Accepted Answer

complex sentence

Question 6

Label this sentence: "Until Angie arrives with the key, we cannot start band practice."

Accepted Answer

complex, dependent clause and independent clause

Question 7

A person can be fired for insubordination in the workplace. This is when an employee...

Accepted Answer

does not obey a direct order from a supervisor

Question 8

Which of the following is NOT a subordinating conjunction?

Accepted Answer

and

Question 9

"After testing, I chose to rest my head on my desk." Identify the dependent clause.

Accepted Answer

After testing

Question 10

"After missing the Olympic team, he sat immobile for a time." Predict the meaning of immobile.

Accepted Answer

not moving, motionless

Question 11

"She wants to go into aeronautical engineering." Predict the meaning of aeronautical.

Accepted Answer

the science of building aircraft

Question 12

When a person is prejudiced, they have...

Accepted Answer

a preconceived notion not based on reason

Question 13

"When her boyfriend made a crude joke, she retracted her hand in disgust." Define retracted.

Accepted Answer

to draw back

Question 14

What is the meaning of the base word "ped"?

Accepted Answer

foot or child

Question 15

What is the meaning of the base word "mot/mob"?

Accepted Answer

to move

Question 16

Some restaurants used to be segregated. This meant that...

Accepted Answer

whites and blacks could not eat together there

Question 17

After noticing our dog _________ during the walk, we inspected his paw and removed a thorn.

Accepted Answer

hobbling

Question 18

What is a casualty?

Accepted Answer

a person injured or killed in war

Question 19

Label this sentence: "He can buy the book, or he can borrow it from the library."

Accepted Answer

compound, two independent clauses with coord. conjunction

Question 20

What is a sentence containing two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction?

Accepted Answer

compound sentence

Question 21

The goalie stopped the penalty kick. Identify the subject.

Accepted Answer

The goalie

Question 22

What is the meaning of the base word "tract"?

Accepted Answer

to draw or pull

Question 23

"Dogs are quadrupeds." Predict the meaning of quadruped.

Accepted Answer

walking on four feet

Question 24

Many war films feature horses drinking from water __________ before and after battles.

Accepted Answer

troughs

Question 25

Luke raises his hand. Identify the type of verb.

Accepted Answer

action verb

Question 26

The Olympic figure skater landed a triple axel. Identify the predicate.

Accepted Answer

landed a triple axel

Question 27

Frostbite is most likely to attack body parts farther away from the body core like ___________.

Accepted Answer

extremities

Question 28

Which of the following can stand alone as a sentence?

Accepted Answer

independent clause

Question 29

"My cat is mischievous." Identify the type of verb.

Accepted Answer

linking verb

Question 30

"Whenever I need a snack, I look in the kitchen cabinet." Identify the independent clause.

Accepted Answer

I look in the kitchen cabinet

Quarter 3 Vocabulary and Grammar

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Quarter 3 Vocabulary and Grammar

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