2. Regular & Irregular Verbs  To form the past tense and the past participle of regular verbs, add ---ed  If the verb ends in e, drop the e before adding –ed  If the verb ends in y, change the y to an i and add –ed  If the verb ends with a vowel and a consonant and the accent is on the final syllable, the consonant is usually doubled before adding –ed  The past tense and past participle of irregular verbs do not follow a usual pattern.

3. Examples  Regular verb: race  My friend and I raced to the store yesterday.  Regular verb: toss  Sally tossed the ball in the air.  Regular verb: hug  The friends have hugged and said goodbye.  Regular verb: go  James went to the museum last week.  That was the first time he had gone there.

4. Irregular Verbs

5. Application: The weatherman caught a cold. When I have played my new CD 100 times, I will be tired of it. Who walked to school today? To show that she understood, Nastasia nodded her head.

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7. Vocabulary  Unsettling: Causes you to feel worried and uncertain.  Befitting: is suitable or appropriate for a person.  Tolerated: When you let something that you did not agree with continue, you have tolerated it.

8.  Dispute: you have a disagreement or quarrel  Savory: has an appetizing taste or smell and tastes salty or spicy, not sweet.  Vigilantly: when you have been watchful and alert to a problem or a danger.

9.  Revered: you are highly respected and admired  Disposition: is your typical mood or temperament, especially the way you usually behave or feel.

10. Focus Skill: Literary Devices  Literary devices are tools that authors use to make the writing style unique or to let readers know how they feel about a subject.  Examples:  Dialogue : is the conversation between characters. It reveals characters’ feelings and traits.  Symbol : a person, place, thing, or event that stands for something other than itself. (Ex. Heart is a symbol of love...ew)  Mood : overall feeling of the story. Author’s attitude about the subject.  Irony : is a contrast between what readers expect to happen and what actually happens.

11. Examples:  Dialogue:  Mood:

12.  Irony:  Symbol: