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Vocabulary and Sentence Construction Practice #3
DIRECTIONS: Use your blue syntax notes and your vocabulary
definitions to help you complete this assignment. The purpose of this assignment is twofold: first, to practice constructing different types of sentences, and second, to learn the definitions of your current vocabulary words.
NOTE: You may change the part of speech of any given word to make it fit in your sentence, but make sure that the changed word is actually a word. For example, if you want to change the adjective benevolent into a noun, make sure you use the correct noun, benevolence, and not a made up word like benevolation.
NOTE: If your sentences are not complete and correctly punctuated, you will not receive full credit for the work.
1)Write a meaningful simple sentence using the word swagger.
2)Write a meaningful compound sentence using the word obstinateand the coordinating conjunction yet.
3)Write a meaningful compound sentence using the word transparentand the coordinating conjunction so.
4)Write a meaningful compound sentence using the word inveterateand the conjunctive adverb indeed. If you do not punctuate this sentence correctly, you will not receive credit for the question.
5)Write a meaningful complex sentence using the word fulminate and the subordinating conjunction although.
6)Write a meaningful complex sentence using the word contradictionand the subordinating conjunction because.
7)Write a meaningful complex sentence using the word rhapsody and the subordinating conjunction until.
8)Write a meaningful compound-complex sentence using the wordcontumacious, the subordinating conjunction while, and the coordinating conjunction but.
9)Do you think your personality could be most accurately described as articulate, inquisitive, punctilious,or stolid? Explain your answer in complete sentences.
10)What is a tradition or behavior that you believe to be archaic? Explain your answer in a complete sentence.
11) Consider the four images of famous robots below. Which one is Odd One Out? (In other words, which toy does not fit with the other three?) Circle your choice, and then write an assertion defending your choice. Consider the type of sentence that will best fit your assertion.
My assertion:
12) Here’s the scene: You find yourself, suddenly and inexplicably, alone in the deep jungle, with only a water bottle, two matches, and a pack of chewing gum. You struggle through the underbrush, pushing forward until you are confronted with a giant stone wall. The wall stretches as high as you can see, and as far to the left and to the right as you can see. There is no way around or over. The outline of a door can barely be made out, but there seems to be no way to open it. The wall is seemingly impenetrable. Write a short narrative, explaining your next move. Include details that involve all five senses, and explain your emotions throughout. Impress me by using a vocabulary word correctly somewhere in your description.
13) Is it ever acceptable to harbor enmity toward someone else? Explain your answer in complete sentences.
14) Explain, in a complete sentence, a situation that would enervate you.
15) Draw a picture of a woman of great stature standing next to a man of lesser stature.
16)Write a list of three songs or pieces of music that have the power to lull you to sleep.
17) Are you often the arbiter among your friends? Explain your role in your friend group, in a complete sentence.
18) Draw a diagram of a hierarchical system that occurs in the natural world. HINT: Consider the hierarchies you studied in biology and earlier sciences.
19)Describe in detail your plan of action in the case of a conflagration occurring inside WHS.
20)Using Internet resources, learn more about a person (any person) who was imprisoned and later vindicated. Offer the following details in complete sentences: 1) the person’s name and nationality; 2) the crime of which the person was accused; 3) the circumstances of the person’s vindication