Tip of the week

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Unit 13

• Tip of the week
• Do NOT double the final consonant before adding
  ing, -ed, -er, or est in one-syllable words
  with w or x endings.
• exceptions related rules to be learned in future
  weeks

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• Tip words
• 1) mowing
• 2) waxed

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• Academic Verbs
• 3) evoke to bring about, conjure up
• The writer evokes a sad mood in the poem.
• 4) negate to go against or contradict to void
• The counter argument negates the claim of the
  topic sentence.

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• Commonly misspelled words
• 5) dependent
• Theres a dent in dependent.
• 6) privilege
• Im not privileged to have a vile leg.

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• Roots/prefixes/suffixes
• mis/mit to send
• biblio book
• centri center
• homo same

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• 7) emit to send out
• 8) bibliography a record of ones source books
• 9) concentric shapes that share the same center
  together
• 10) homonym words that have the same name
  (nym)spellingbut mean two different things (n.
  wind versus v. wind)

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• Commonly confused words
• 11) threw (past tense verb)
• Jake threw the ball.
• 12) through (adv./prep.)
• We will walk through the auditorium.