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

A writer should use a reciprocal pronoun when

Which sentence contains a pronoun shift error?

Elementary school students are not ____________ to talk while the teacher reads __________ after lunch.Which words complete the sentence correctly?

Read the excerpt from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard.[CLAUDIUS] The need we have to use you did provokeOur hasty sending. . . .Something have you heardOf Hamlet’s transformation, so call it,Sith nor th’exterior nor the inward manResembles that it was. What it should be,More than his father’s death, that thus hath put him,So much from th’understanding of himself,I cannot dream of. I entreat you bothThat, being of so young days brought up with himAnd sith so neighboured to his youth and haviourThat you vouchsafe your rest here in our courtSome little time, so by your companiesTo draw him on to pleasures, and to gatherSo much as from occasion you may glean,Whether aught to us unknown afflicts him thus,That opened lies within our remedy.

Read the excerpt from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard.ROS I’m afraid—GUIL So am I.ROS I’m afraid it isn’t your day.GUIL I’m afraid it is. Small pause.ROS Eighty-nine.GUIL It must be indicative of something, besides the redistribution of wealth. (He muses.) List of possible explanations. One: I’m willing it. Inside where nothing shows, I am the essence of a man spinning double-headed coins, and betting against himself in private atonement for an unremembered past. . . .[GUIL] Two: time has stopped dead, and the single experience of one coin being spun once has been repeated ninety times.

Read the sentence.We took a long walk along the path beside the bubbling stream.

Read the sentences.Rahul and Ori sorted through all the video games that were theirs. After counting it, Ori realized that between them, they had all the games in the series.

Read the passage.All the students signed a petition, but they still needed the faculty’s permission to start the club. The students came to the next faculty meeting, and they presented a solid argument. All of their hard work paid off because the students won their campaign.

Read the excerpt from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard.ROS Well I can tell you I’m sick to death of it. I don’t care one way or another, so why don’t you make up your mind.GUIL We can’t afford anything quite so arbitrary. Nor did we come all this way for a christening. All that—preceded us. But we are comparatively fortunate; we might have been left to sift the whole field of human nomenclature, like two blind men looting a bazaar for their own portraits. . . . At least we are presented with alternatives.ROS Well as from now—GUIL —But not choice.ROS You made me look ridiculous in there.GUIL I looked just as ridiculous as you did.ROS (an anguished cry) Consistency is all I ask!GUIL (low, wry rhetoric) Give us this day our daily mask.ROS (a dying fall) I want to go home. (Moves.) Which way did we come in? I’ve lost my sense of direction.GUIL The only beginning is birth and the only end is death—if you can’t count on that, what can you count on?

Read the sentence.A hedge of rosemary and lavender surrounded the herb garden.