Days of the Week

Unscramble the words
DAMNOY
USTEYAD
DEWNESDYA
HRDTUAY
IRFDAY
TURSAYDA
DYAUNS

Vocabulary Task

endow	futon	duvet	admonition	divest
deviousness	Generation 1.5	paddy	pendant	heed
tow-line	food stamp		towing	wobble

1.     In some countries, people like sleeping on a _____, and in more luxurious households, people might sleep in a four-poster bed.

2.     No human being _____ with sympathetic interest, who himself has to contend with difficulties, fails to be moved by the success or disaster of the contestants in a struggle of which the spectator has no part or lot.

3.     The engineers hadn’t expected the bridge to _____ because they had never built such a long bridge of this type before.

4.     Much of this sort of trouble would be saved if those who are ______ would keep remembering that they are _____, and give a pretty frequent look round to see how their man if getting on.

5.     Alternatively, they might use a _____.

6.     Paradoxically, the very ______ intended to reform the prodigal served only to reinforce his wicked ways.

7.     It is therefore unsurprising that many of the living organisms that have evolved on the earth have ______ the biologically advantageous capacity to trap light energy.

8.     Amusingly enough, lawyers sometimes drive their sports cars in the same fashion that they construct their cases; a lawyer noted for the _____ of his arguments, for example, may also be known for the circuitousness of his routes.

9.     There is a diversity among writers; bilingual, ______.

10.The entire clan croaked in unison surprisingly, incredulous that anyone would want to leave the Ichangu rice _______.

11. Necklaces are often worn with a crossbar _____ to which shells are attached.

12.You are warned to ______ this order.

13.The only reply we made to this was to pass him over the ______, and he took it, and stepped out.

14.Research has found that for many people from all classes, there is a srong stigma attached to the use of _____.

Numbers

One is a number,
Two is a number,
Three is a number,
Four!
Number five is before six,
And number seven is more!
Eight is a number,
Nine is a number,
Now we come to ten...
And we are back at one again!

Vocabulary Tips

cowled	elusive	holorime	intact
militant	obscurity	forge	paddy
rever	tow-line	trowel	wobble

1.     To all these people I send thanks – except, of course, the _____ plagiarist, to whom I address one heartfelt raspberry.

2.     A man might be a very fine artist, engineer, or philosopher, but unless he managed to bring his work to the attention of the ruler of the cities, he was likely to remain in _____.

3.     Sometimes it was by armed horsemen escorting a rich banker to some appointment; other times it was a file of _____ monks observing some saint’s day and carrying huge wax candles.

4.     Mrs Mott is using a _____ to dig small holes in the dirt.

5.     Among the many people to whom I am indebted for help in the preparation of this book, I must single out Miles Kington of the Independent for kindly allowing me to reproduce two _____ in the chapter on wordplay.

6.     It was probably a tabloid newspaper and they wanted to make a joke about how the bridge _____.

7.     The ceiling was _____ and so was I.

8.     I don’t wish to be insulting, but I firmly believe that if you took an average ______, and stretched it out straight across the middle of afield, and then turned your back on it for thirty seconds, that when you looked around again, you would find that it had got itself altogether in the middle of the field and had twisted itself up, and tied itself into knots, and lost its two ends and become all loops; and it would take you a good half - hour sitting down there on the grass and swearing all the while, disentangle it again.

9.     She feels a genuine affection for those little full stops and commas, colons and semi-colons and she protects them rather than _____ them.

10.I laughed, I howled, and I immediately wanted to join the _____ wing of the Apostrophe Society.

11.It was evening, and Bhaktaprasad was gazing down upon Kathmandu Valley as the Sun’s slanting rays lit its fields of greening ______.

12.Thus at the flaming ______ of life our fortunes must be wrought.

Some nouns from some adjectives and nouns

prudence -prudent
height - high
redness - red
stupidity- stupid
peerage - peer
childhood -child
mastery - master
kingship - king

Simple sentences: Subject +Predicate

Intemperance degrades
 Why is this a sentence? --Because it expresses a thought. Of what is something thought? --Intemperance.
Which word tells what is thought? --Degrades.

1. Magnets attract.
2. Horses neigh.
3. Frogs leap.
4. Cold contracts.
5. Sunbeams dance.
6. Heat expands.
7. Sunlight gleams.
8. Banners wave.
9. Grass withers.
10. Sailors climb.
11. Rabbits burrow.
12. Spring advances.

You see that in these sentences there are two parts. The parts are the Subject+ the Predicate.
DEFINITION.--The Subject of a sentence names that of which something is thought.

DEFINITION.--The Predicate of a sentence tells what is thought.

DEFINITION.--The Analysis of a sentence is the separation of it into its parts.

Analyze, according to the model, the following sentences.

EX: Stars twinkle. This is a sentence, because it expresses a thought. Stars is the subject, because it names that of which something is thought; twinkle is the predicate, because it tells what is thought.

1. Plants droop.
2. Books help.
3. Clouds float.
4. Exercise strengthens.
5. Rain falls.
6. Time flies.
7. Rowdies fight.
8. Bread nourishes.
9. Boats capsize.
10. Water flows.
11. Students learn.
12. Horses gallop.

Punctuation: Semicolon

The Semicolon marks a slighter connection than the comma. It is generally confined to separating the parts of compound sentences. It is much used in contrasts:

(1) "Gladstone was great as a statesman; he was sublime as a man."

(2) The Semicolon is used between the parts of all compound sentences in which the grammatical subject of the second part is different from that of the first: "The power of England relies upon the wisdom of her statesmen; the power of America upon the strength of her army and navy."

(3) The Semicolon is used before words and abbreviations which introduce particulars or specifications following after, such as, namely, as, e.g.,: "He had three defects; namely, carelessness,
lack of concentration and obstinacy in his ideas." "An island is a portion of land entirely surrounded by water; as Cuba." "The names of cities should always commence with a capital letter; e.g., New York, Paris." "The boy was proficient in one branch; ex., Mathematics." "No man is perfect; i.e., free from all blemish."