Unit 9 Day 1 1 Far from being

Unit 9: Day 1 1. Far from being _______, the director's casting choices were based on an understanding of each actor's abilities and limitations. • 2. Wasn't it ______ of you to offer the coach advice on your very first day on the team? • 3. Americans should be zealous supporters of liberty. • 4. Compose a sentence using a PREP PHRASE (review) & the word DEVIATE

Unit 9: Day 2 • 1. She changes her mind so frequently that it seems like every choice she makes is a ____ decision on her part. • 2. Those who _______ from the expectations set forth by the drill sergeant are frequently ______ for their unacceptable behavior. • 3. I took plentiful notes in Chemistry. • 4. Compose a sentence using the word ALLOCATE and include a person's name in the sentence

Unit 9: Day 3 • 1. The teacher decided to _______ a corner of the classroom for an exhibition of student projects. • 2. Though some of my friends are mature for their age, others are most decidedly ____. • 3. The victims deserve compensation equal to their loss. • 4. Compose a sentence using the word INKLING an appositive phrase

Unit 9: Day 4 • 1. General Grant accepted Lee's surrender with quiet dignity, refusing to _____ over the defeat of his foe. • 2. If you want to recover quickly, you must not _______ from the doctor's orders. • 3. The story is a bittersweet tale of love and loss. • 4. Compose a sentence using the word COPIOUS and an appositive phrase

Unit 9: Day 5 • 1. Remembering my friend who was always robust and muscular in school, I was shocked to see how _______ he had become after his long illness. • 2. My travels have shown me that many exotic foods I once considered disgusting are really quite _____. • 3. Rewrite & combine. Include Appositive phrase. • The senior class strayed from the normal class trip to New York City when they chose to visit Albany instead. Albany is the capital of New York State.

Unit 9: Day 6 • 1. When he told me he was reading Huckleberry Finn for the third time, I realized that he was a(n) _______ admirer of the novel. • 2. There can be no ______ for the pain & suffering that your carelessness has caused! • 3. Rewrite & combine. Include Appositive phrase. • Roosevelt was President during the depression of the 1930 s. He seems to give the entire nation new strength from his abundant energy & enthusiasm.

Unit 9: Day 7 • 1. The tastes of TV viewers are so ____ that no one can predict in advance which programs will be successful. • 2. What she lacks in skill, she makes up for with her ______ nature and attention to detail. • 3. Rewrite & combine. Include Appositive phrase. • The UN is an organization of independent states supporting international peace and security. It is not an all-powerful organization because it can do only what the member states allow it to do.

Unit 9: Day 8 • 1. Our meeting last week was marred by a heated debate over how to ____ the funds in this year's budget. • 2. Far from being effortless, her simple, _______ writing style is the result of her effort for clarity. • 3. Rewrite & combine. Include Appositive phrase. • Alfred Lord Tennyson was a British writer. He wrote about the bittersweet experience of remembering happier times.

Unit 9: Day 9 • 1. He tries to sound intelligent, but his superficial and self-important answers only display his _______ knowledge of world affairs. • 2. The cruel headmasters mission in life was to ______ those boarding students who failed to live up to the impossible standards he set for them. • 3. Rewrite & combine. Include appositive phrase. • Agnes is an elderly, homeless woman. I cringed when I saw her misshapen and weather-beaten fingers.

Unit 9: Day 10 • 1. In American government, we have checks and balances so no one branch can be _________. • 2. ______ is never so bitter as when it arises between friends. 3. Rewrite & combine. Include appositive phrase. • The biology teacher is Mr. Adams. He has an enthusiastic interest in ecology.