English 10 Honors

Writing Rules 2005-06

Grammar Test Review -- Jan. 20, 2006

   

PRONOUN CASE quizzes

 

            http://school.discovery.com/quizzes29/jennywebster/pronouncase.html (moderate difficult level--13 questions)

 

            http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/cases_quiz1.htm (fairly easy--10 questions)

 

            http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/cases_quiz2.htm (fairly challenging--10 questions)

 

            http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/grammar/course/speech/1_2c.htm  (relatively easy—16 questions)

 

            http://www.uvsc.edu/owl/tests/pronouns/pronouns.html (challenging, especially at the end—20 questions)

 

WHO & WHOM

 

            http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/who_quiz.htm

 

            http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/who2_quiz.htm (with useful explanations about why the answer is correct)

 

HYPHENATED ADJECTIVES

 

            http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/par_numberless_quiz.pl/compounds_quiz.htm (challenging--also contains compound nouns)

 

OTHER GRAMMAR QUIZZES (for review for test)

 

            http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quiz_list.htm (there are 170 different quizzes here)

 

            commas – 80-84

            agreement – 31-39, 108-110 (pronoun case questions as well)

            apostrophes – 90

            WCC – 125-132

VOCABULARY LIST -- Quarter 2 05-06

• Week 1 aghast contemptuous desultory enmity harried languid matriarchal precarious rapturous stultifying	Week 2 atavistic condescend dissuade effulgence haughty luxurious maimed perturbation refractory squalid	Week 3 assurance conjecture doleful exhort hiatus laborious multifarious punctilious ravenous solecism	Week 4 amenable countenance denouement deteriminate emissary hermetical livid prominent righteousness stalwart
  Week 5 appalling contemplative demure encumbrance intricate lithe miasma pretension reproof surrogate	Week 6 alacrity commensurate decrepitude endow irascible lethargic niggardly parlance rancid servile	Week 7 abomination connoisseur defection equivocal impervious jaunty nurture pedagogic recriminate taut	Week 8 anathema curmudgeon droll epiphany implacable jeer neophyte pugnacious regression transfix

Quarter 3 05-06 Vocabulary

Quarter 4 Vocabulary 05-06

Writing About Poetry:

    Click on the link to read a copy of T.S. Eliot's "Gerontion." Click on this link to read a

    sample analytical essay (MS word doc.) on the poem.

 

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POEM-a-NIGHT 2006

    1. Assignment

    2. "Nightsliding" 1st Draft         2nd Draft        Final Draft