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Spell It Right VOCABULARY Analytical Skills

A. Create sentences using the following words of your own to show that you understand
what they mean. These words are from the story.

1. bulging 2. reluctantly

3. enraptured 4. inhabitants
5. dawdling 6. oblivious

B. Pick out three of Gerald’s descriptive phrases about scorpions. How does he feel

about scorpions?

C. Larry developed a phobia about matchboxes. Likewise there are many kinds of
phobias, match them.

1. Fear of water a. Cynophobia

2. Fear of spiders b. Bibliophobia

3. Fear of dogs c. Ornithophobia
4. Fear of birds d. Arachnophobia

5. Fear of books e. Hydrophobia

Language Ladder GRAMMAR Language Skills

Tense

Read the following sentences.
• It was an ancient brick wall that had been plastured earlier.

• Certain amount of order had been restored.

• Larry picked up the matchbox he had brought.

The highlighted words in the above sentences are in the past perfect tense.

The past perfect tense is used to describe an action that was completed before another
action in the past. It is formed by combining ‘had’ with the past participle form of the
verb.

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