PPT-Assuage (verb)

uh sweyj to ease or satisfy to make less severe A ssuage I will assuage my grief by crying into my pillow We assuaged our guilt by doing something nice for the children. Elizabeth Rubin. Pre-Assessment. 1. . Either the physicians in this hospital or the chief administrator is /are going to have to make a decision. . 2.. Either the Committee on Course Design or the Committee on College Operations decide/ decides these matters. . “They need to work together!”. NOUN AND VERB AGREEMENT. Nouns and verbs need to work together to create a complete thought. (sounds right). Nouns can be plural or singular.. Singular= one (dog). Definition. : To glorify, to raise in rank or status. Example. : The . soldier . was brave in battle, so he was exalted to a knight.. extraneous – adj.. Definition. : irrelevant, unnecessary, not vital. Tenses. Angela Gulick. CAS Writing Specialist. June . 2015. Verbs. Think of a sentence like a movie. The . subject. is the “star” of your sentence, the person or thing around which all action revolves.. Matching the subject with the verb.. The subject and verb must agree in number. First, the subject must be determined.. The . child. . sings. .. The . children. . sing. .. The . frog. . jumps. .. 1. . Common Core State Standards. English Language Arts/Language: 9-12. Conventions of Standard English. :. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.. Ms. Dombrow. Literature and Rhetoric B. Malevolent . Definition: . Having or showing a desire to cause harm to another person, evil. Merriam-Webster. Parts of Speech: . Adjective. Other Forms: . Malevolently (adverb. The basic rule states that a singular subject takes a singular verb, while a plural subject takes a plural verb. .. NOTE:.  The trick is in knowing whether the subject is singular or plural. The next trick is recognizing a singular or plural verb.. Fix the verb that doesn't match the tense of the verb in bold.. Sam.  . always.  . neglects.  . the.  . . . trash,.  . so.  . each.  . week.  . his.  . wife dragged.  . the.  . can. Objective: I can recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense. (5.1d). Find and correct the inappropriate verb tenses.. The school cafeteria is usually crowded, but the other day things were worse than usual. A visiting band plays for the morning assembly and our band master invited the young men for lunch. Forty more people isn't much more when you are in a large auditorium, but when you brought them to an already crowds cafeteria something had to give. It did! The moveable wall separating the faculty dining room from the student section come out. For one day, at least, we has plenty of room and the faculty had . Pre-Assessment-verb mood. Match the sentence with the correct verb mood.. Sentences. ___ 1. Little Rock is the capital of Arkansas.. ___ 2. If he were governor, we’d be in better fiscal shape. . ___ 3. the cat may scratch me if I step on its tail.. Verb. Expresses an action or a state of being. Every sentence has at least one.. Examples. play. . I . play. . the drums. .. is. . Pizza . is. . delicious. . are trimming. . We . are trimming . the tree.. – n 1: a social structure without government or law and order. 2: utter . confusion. . A country without a central government and judicial system is at risk for . anarchy. .. 2. Auspicious . – adj. promising . (noun) . a youth. stripling. The jury overlooked the idea that he was only a . stripling. , and they tried him as an adult.. (verb) to drive together so that one slides into the other like the sections of a spy-glass.