Homework Help Forum: English

Posted by Allison on Sunday, March 15, 2009 at 12:56pm.

For English class, we're doing a vocab. review for seventh graders, as part of our teaching project. Should seventh graders know what inevitable means? What age should people know that word by? Thank you.

• English - Writeacher, Sunday, March 15, 2009 at 1:01pm

  There's no reason why not. It's also a perfect word to break down and show kids how they can discern what unfamiliar words mean if they know common prefixes, root words, and suffixes. in-evit-able c.1430, from L. inevitabilis "unavoidable," from in- "not" + evitabilis "avoidable," from evitare "to avoid," from ex- "out" + vitare "shun," originally "go out of the way." from http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=inevitable&searchmode=none

  
  

• English - Ms. Sue, Sunday, March 15, 2009 at 1:01pm

  If seventh graders don't know the meaning of "inevitable," they should learn it because it's part of their lives. For instance: If you cheat on a test, the consequences are inevitable.

  
  

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