Honors English Midterm Exam Study Guide; Vocabulary + Grammar

unable to be conquered

Irritable or short-tempered

That which drives one; momentum

limited in knowledge of the world; narrow-minded

Acting passionately and without forethought

to lead toward some action

Tending to argue or cause discord

failing to fulfill one's duty; negligent

a feeling of regret or remorse

To force or strongly persuade; coerce

The best or most typical example

Sharply cutting; direct and powerful

Paying strict attention to detail; extremely careful

Showing little regard; scornful

wise; insightful; acutely intelligent

the manner in which one acts or behaves

To increase greatly in number; multiply

lightweight and transparent

Unable to be affected

Lowly, miserable and wretched

A moment of sudden revelation or insight

to imagine; to conceive of

the face; a facial expression

Looking backward over a period of time

An Action or State; (to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must.

Ex: English is a terrible class. ; I hate English class

A Person, Place, Thing; pen, dog, work, music, town, London, teacher, John

Ex: English is miserable.

Describes (modifies) a noun; good, big red, well, interesting.

Ex: English is miserable ; English is a terrible class.

Describes (modifies) a verb, adjective, or another adverb; quickly silently, well, badly, very, really.

Ex: My patience wears quickly (Quickly modifies Wears [V.])

When I am very bored, I tire really easily (Very modifies bored [Adj.], Really modifies easily [Adv.], Easily modifies tire [V.])

Replaces a noun; I, you, he, she, it, we, they, some.

Ex: Owen is in English. He is sleeping.

Links a noun to another word, tells where or when but is not crucial to a sentence; to, at, after, on, but.

Ex: We have our lame english midterm in there. (W/O Prep. Phrase: We have our lame english midterm, sentence functions the same)

Joins clauses, sentences, or words (FANBOYS: For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so).

Ex: I hate English class but I like Spanish class. I hate our English and Spanish midterms, I hate midterms and finals.

Singular Subject → Singular verb (s/es)

Plural Subject (s) → Plural verb (were, are, have,)

‘YOU’ is a Plural Subject → It takes a singular verb

Each, neither, every (s.) → Plural Verb (were, do, are, have)

Ex: The boy sleeps during english; the boys sleep during english

Needs a Direct object to answer the question ‘whom or what’

Ex: We take the midterm (whom or what do we take, we take midterms)

Cannot have a direct object, or is preceded with a linking verb, replace the verb with ‘=’

Ex: I Snore (No direct object)

I am sleeping (replace am with ‘=’, I = sleeping)

Ex: Henry was going to go to the mall with his friends.

Each student completes (their/his or her) boring work.

(His or Her, each is singular, their is plural)

Reginald and (he/him)put new tires on the tractor ○ (He/him) put new tires on the tractor.

The name/person the pronoun replaces the name of.

• Make sure pronoun fits antecedent (gender, plural/singular)

Words used to compare; Cooler, Better, Fitter

The most or least + Best, coolest, fittest

Infinitive of the word; Cool, fit