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The Midtown Practice

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Market Sale 30C
Written by Lisa Vollmer

Prefixes micro-, mid-, mis-, non-

midtown midday microwave
nonsense misprint misleading
midyear midweek midnight

High-Frequency Words
shop can’t check
which late
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 Jane and her dad went
to Midtown Market to shop
at midday on Sunday.
They found a good sale
on microwaves and shirts.
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 Dad looked at a tag.
“This price can’t be right.
This is nonsense.
I’ve never seen shirts this cheap!”
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 The clerk came by.
“I will check,” she said.
“It might be a misprint,
which would be misleading.”
She went to ask her boss.
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 That clerk came back smiling.
“It is right,” she said.
“This midyear sale
has good prices.”
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 Jane and Dad looked for other
good deals.
Then Dad looked at the clock.
“We have to pick up Mom,”
he said.
“We will be late if we don’t go now.”
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 “Maybe we can return midweek,”
Jane said.
“This sale ends at midnight,”
the clerk noted.
Dad looked again at that cheap shirt.
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 “Mom will want to see
these good deals,” he noted.
“We will bring her here
while these prices are low.”
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