Building Vocabulary: Word Roots, Affixes, and Reference Materials — Cumulative exam Answers

Read the sentence.After we heard the way he played the song on his guitar, we bought it.

Read the excerpt from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard.GUIL (more intensely) We have been spinning coins together since—(He releases him almost as violently.) This is not the first time we have spun coins!ROS Oh no—We’ve been spinning coins for as long as I remember.GUIL How long is that?ROS I forget. Mind you—eighty-five times!GUIL Yes?ROS It’ll take some beating, I imagine.GUIL Is that what you imagine? Is that it? No fear?ROS Fear?GUIL (in fury—flings a coin on the ground) Fear! The crack that might flood your brain with light!

Which sentence uses a reflexive pronoun correctly?

Which sentence uses principal correctly?

Read the excerpt from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard.ROS (dumbly) Eighty-five in a row. Tails?/p>GUIL Yes! What would you think?ROS (doubtfully) Well. . . . (Jocularly.) Well, I’d have a good look at your coins for a start!GUIL (retiring) I’m relieved. At least we can still count on self-interest as a predictable factor. . . . I suppose it’s the last to go. Your capacity for trust made me wonder if perhaps . . . you, alone . . . (He turns on him suddenly, reaches out a hand.) Touch. Ros clasps his hand. Guil pulls him up to him.GUIL (more intensely) We have been spinning coins together since—(He releases him almost as violently.) This is not the first time we have spun coins!

possessivereciprocalreflexivesubjective

Read the excerpt from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard.GUIL Exactly, it’s a matter of asking the right questions and giving away as little as we can. It’s a game.ROS And then we can go?GUIL And receive such thanks as fits a king’s remembrance.ROS I like the sound of that. What do you think he means by remembrance?

ac- = "to"cept = "take or receive"ex- = "leave out"

The principal objective of our booster club is to raise money for new marching band uniforms.Which definition best helps readers find the correct meaning of principal in this sentence?

What is an affix?

Read the excerpt from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard.GUIL (musing) The law of probability, it has been oddly asserted, is something to do with the proposition that if six monkeys (he has surprised himself) . . . if six monkeys were . . .ROS Game?GUIL Were they?ROS Are you?GUIL (understanding) Game. (Flips a coin.) The law of averages, if I have got this right, means that if six monkeys were thrown up in the air for long enough they would land on their tails about as often as they would land on their—ROS Heads. (He picks up the coin.)GUIL Which even at first glance does not strike one as a particularly rewarding speculation, in either sense, even without the monkeys. I mean you wouldn’t bet on it. I mean I would, but you wouldn’t. . . .ROS Heads. . . .. . . (He looks up at Guil—embarrassed laugh.) Getting a bit of a bore, isn’t it?

When a pronoun does not agree in number or person with an antecedent that appears earlier in the sentence, what kind of error occurs?

Read the phrase.meanwhile, with the golden and yellow

Read the sentence.We journaled about our adventure.

Read the excerpts from Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard.Excerpt 1HAMLET. To be, or not to be: that is the question:Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;No more; and, by a sleep to say we endThe heart-ache and the thousand natural shocksThat flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummationDevoutly to be wish’d.Excerpt 2HAMLET comes down to footlights and regards the audience. The others watch but don’t speak. Hamlet clears his throat noisily and spits into the audience. A split second later he claps his hand to his eye and wipes himself. He goes back upstage.ROS A compulsion towards philosophical introspection is his chief characteristic, if I may put it like that. It does not mean he is mad. It does not mean he isn’t. Very often, it does not mean anything at all. Which may or may not be a kind of madness.

Read the excerpt from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard. POLONIUS The ambassadors from Norway, my good lord, are joyfully returned.CLAUDIUS Thou still hast been the father of good news.POLONIUS Have I, my lord? Assure you, my good liege,I hold my duty as I hold my soul,Both to my God and to my gracious King;And I do think, or else this brain of mineHunts not the trail of policy so sureAs it hath used to do, that I have foundThe very cause of Hamlet’s lunacy.

Read the sentence.They asked about the bike, and I told them it was mine.

Which word shares a word root with remember?

Which sentence uses a reciprocal pronoun correctly?

-al = "pertaining to"inter- = "between, among"judge = "decide"ment = "mind"nation = "country"