English 11/12

There will be another vocabulary quiz on Friday. Your words are: indolent (adj) , dilapidated (adj), surfeited (v), leisurely (adv), waning (adj), lingering (adj), grinding (adj), lyric (adj), chant (n or v), insistent (adj), ceaseless (adj), splurge (v), peculiar (adj), overripe (adj), unbidden (adj), and splatter (v).

You will notice that waning, lingering, and grinding are adjectives which have been formed from verbs. Sometimes the present participle form of a verb (verb plus "ing") becomes an adjective. Such adjectives are called "participle adjectives". For example, the verb "to roll" becomes an adjective in the adage "A rolling stone gathers no moss."

On Wednesday, there will be an in-class character analysis of either the grandson or grandfather in "A Handful of Dates". You will decide which character you wish to discuss.