Patterns of Language and Semantic Fields · seed 1 · A4, ink-friendly. The answer key prints on its own page for grown-ups.

Catch the pattern in the words

English · Vocabulary · ages 14-16
Name ______________________   Date ____________

  1. What should you do with related words in an extract?

    • Count their letters
    • Replace them with synonyms
    • Group them, name the field

  2. What do infect, infection, infectious, and infectiously share?

    • One exact part of speech
    • One core about disease
    • One single sentence

  3. A word ending can show its job, as ate marks the verb differentiate.

    Circle one:   True   False

  4. A passage runs cold words for pages, then one warm word lands. What should you ask?

    • How to delete the warm word
    • Why the break lands there
    • Whether cold words rhyme

  5. An extract repeats cage, chains, and locked doors. Which field name fits?

    • Imprisonment
    • Celebration
    • Machinery

  6. You meet differentiate but only know different. What is the likeliest meaning?

    • A noun naming a machine
    • An adverb describing speed
    • A verb that tells apart

  7. A student names a disease field, quotes fever, cough, and chill, then argues the passage celebrates health. What is wrong?

    • The field name is too short
    • Three quotes are too many
    • The conclusion fights the field instead of following it

  8. Two claims about a frost run: it makes one line chilly, or it builds a climate of dread across the passage. Which is stronger?

    • The climate claim, because it covers the whole passage
    • The chilly line claim, because it is safer
    • Both claims are exactly equal
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Answer key

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Catch the pattern in the words W1-mt_p1Wzl_KM7p-s1

  1. Group them, name the field · Grouping plus naming turns a list into a pattern.
  2. One core about disease · One family, one core. Only the endings change the job.
  3. True · Endings signal the work each word does.
  4. Why the break lands there · Departures from a pattern often carry the point.
  5. Imprisonment · All three members lock people in, which spells imprisonment.
  6. A verb that tells apart · Different plus the verb ending ate means spotting differences.
  7. The conclusion fights the field instead of following it · A disease run cannot carry a celebration of health.
  8. The climate claim, because it covers the whole passage · Patterns earn their meaning across passages, not single lines.
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