Week 7

EEL

Recipe for a Compound, Imperative Sentence

2 imperative independent clauses
1 comma
1 coordinating conjunction

Preheat your brain to focused and on. For the first layer, put down one of the imperative independent clauses.  Add a pinch of comma. Spread on a coordinating conjunction.  Top with the other imperative independent clause.

Climb mountains, but don't climb the furniture.
Cook supper, but do not cook grammar.

Make up some of your own! Follow the recipe.

Appositives

An appositive follows immediately after a noun and renames it.  A good test--you should be able to switch around the appositive with the noun it renames.

Mrs. Varnell, my teacher, uses a low-tech overhead projector.

or

My teacher, Mrs. Varnell, uses a low-tech overhead projector.

Also notice that the appositive is set apart in the sentence by commas.

Adverbs

Study Chart I and memorize the definition of an adverb and the questions that you have to answer to determine if a word is an adverb (gray boxes).

Thank you, Mrs. Reaves for looking up the answer to the question, "Do all adverbs have degrees?" The answer is no, not all, just most.  Adverbs that are already absolutes/extremes do not have degrees.  For example, nothing cannot be more nothing.  It's opposite, everything, cannot be less than all, therefore, does not have degree.

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Lesson 12

Feel free to use the KWO we did in class and compose your own final paragraph.  Finish your own brainstorming for dialogue, but feel free to incorporate any of the other brainstorming we did in class today.  Go over that final checklist to make sure you have included all the elements.  Polish your paper and add an illustration! Illustrations are optional, but I enjoy them so much!

Challenge

I would love to hear more alliteration puzzles like we did at the beginning of class.  So, if you can come up with your own alliteration and then disguise it, I might just bring in candy to reward your extra effort.  Make up as many as you like, but save your very best for class.