11:00 7/10 Sentence quiz review and hyphens

SIMPLE

1.    Communicate (v) communication (n) communicative (a)

S V.

You must communicate in English every day.

You can’t communicate with her mother because her mother doesn’t listen. 1/2

COMPOUND

2.    communication but

They have learned better communication skills, but they still have relationship problems.

3.    struggle ;

Joe struggles with a chronic illness; nevertheless, he remains optimistic about his future even though his doctor told him not to buy green bananas. Bad luck

COMPLEX

4.    prosperity adjective clause

prosperity (n) prosperous (a) – wealth, money, riches, financially successful

I hope you have prosperity and good health.

A country’s prosperity, which depends on the economy, is very important.

Sheila’s prosperity relies on her small business that is selling wholesale goods.

organic pistachios

5.    persuade noun clause

persuade (v)

persuasion (n)

persuasive (a)

Whoever persuaded you to shoplift is not a true friend.

Shoplift – steal from a store

The five-finger discount

Shoplifter – a person who steal from a store

6.    system adverb clause

The computer system at work doesn’t work well because the boss is too cheap to buy half-decent computers.

Cheap/ stingy/ tight/ tight-fisted/  – doesn’t like to spend money

A skinflint (n) He is a skinflint.

half-decent (a) – good enough, not great, just ok

Tomorrow we will write an essay. It doesn’t have to be amazing. Just a half-decent five-paragraph essay will do.

Descriptive words with - hyphen

Half-decent

Tight-fisted

Five-paragraph

It was a good movie.

It was a half-decent movie.

Sarah wrote a wonderful poem.

Sarah wrote a well-written poem.

This is an English class.

This is a nine weeks class. XXX

This is a nine-weeks class. XXX

This is a nine-week class. Hyphenate, no ‘s’

She is 36 years old.

She is a 36-year-old student.

This class is nine weeks.

This is a nine-week class.

The boy is ten years old.

The ten-year-old boy likes to play basketball.

This is an oatmeal-raisin cookie.

My mother-in-law lives in my house.

My seventy-eight-year-old mother-in-law swims every day.