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ParaPro Exam Review (English and
Math) Study Guide
Synonyms - ✔similar meanings Antonnyms - ✔opposite meaning Homonyms - ✔Sounds alike with different meaning Zero - ✔is a multiple Zero - ✔is not a factor Digits - ✔have value Compare fractions - ✔by cross multipling Metric system - ✔milometers, centimeters, meters, Kilometers 1,000 milimeters - ✔= a meter 100 centimeters - ✔= a meter 1,000 meters - ✔= a kilometer 1,000 milograms - ✔= a gram 1,000 grams - ✔= a kilogram 1,000 mililiters - ✔= 1 liter 1,000 liters - ✔= kiloliter 1,760 yards - ✔= a mile 5,280 feet - ✔= a mile 16 oz - ✔= a pound 8 oz - ✔= a cup
2 cups - ✔= a pint 2 pints - ✔= a quart 4 quarts - ✔= a gallon convert larger units into smaller units - ✔multiply convert smaller units into larger units - ✔divide smaller unit (cm) over larger unit (meter) anti- (prefix) - ✔against mal- (prefix) - ✔wrong non- (prefix) - ✔not post-(prefix) - ✔after
- acy (suffix) - ✔state or quality
- ment (suffix) - ✔condition of
- ize (suffix) - ✔cause to become
- less (suffix) - ✔without
- audi- - ✔to hear
- manu- - ✔hand
- sent- - ✔to feel
- vac- - ✔empty To find the % of a # - ✔multiply the # by the decimal representation of the % (25% of 300) .25 x 300= 75 convert a decimal into a % - ✔divide numerator by denominator 3/4=4 into 3.00 =. Divide by a decimal - ✔move the decimal in both numbers to make the divisor a whole number
Mean - ✔average ( add # and divide by how many #) Median - ✔middle# if odd, average of the 2 middle #'s if even Mode - ✔# most frequent Proper noun - ✔Name of a specific Person, place, thing, or concept (always capitalized) Adjective - ✔describes a noun Adverb - ✔add detail to the verb (ly) Pronoun - ✔stands in for the noun (he, her) Personal pronoun - ✔I, we, you, he , she, it, they, me, us, him, her, them Possessive Pronouns as adjectives - ✔mine, our, your,their, ect.. Possessive Pronouns that stand alone - ✔theirs, mine, ours, hers, Prepositions - ✔to, about, at, before, for, in, like, of, on, to, with (time and Space) Conjunction - ✔and, but, or, yet, so, since, because, when, if/then, either/or, both/and, not only/but also Interjection - ✔emotion !! Subject - ✔noun Predicate - ✔action or assertion about subject Simple Predicate - ✔main verb Complete Predicate - ✔includes : verb, adverb, adjective, prepositions Verb tense - ✔past, present, future Parallelism - ✔Traveling, visiting / to travel, to visit Noun Pronoun agreement - ✔both plural or both singular Apostrophes - ✔show possession
's to words that do not end in s ' at the end of words that end in s except - ✔not including accept - ✔to receive or agree affect - ✔influence (verb) effect - ✔bring about change (noun) Clause - ✔a group of words that contian both a subject and a verb contraction - ✔aren't, haven't Dependent clause - ✔cannot stand alone as a complete sentence Independent clause can - ✔subject and verb, complete sentence Nonrestrictive - ✔is not necessary Noun pronoun agreement - ✔both singular or plural
