Thursday, December 8
MORE PRACTICE WITH ADJECTIVE CLAUSES
Here are two more exercises for practice with adjective clauses When you finish, show your work to an instructor to have it checked:
Here are two more exercises for practice with adjective clauses When you finish, show your work to an instructor to have it checked:
CONCLUDING SENTENCES
You can greatly improve the effectiveness of a stand-alone paragraph by using well-written concluding sentence. This can be a challenge, but it's worth the effort. This is a good time to look back and review what we have studied before about concluding sentences. Here is the explanation from the textbook (LAWS-2, page 53):
You can greatly improve the effectiveness of a stand-alone paragraph by using well-written concluding sentence. This can be a challenge, but it's worth the effort. This is a good time to look back and review what we have studied before about concluding sentences. Here is the explanation from the textbook (LAWS-2, page 53):
You can practice writing concluding sentences with these exercises from the text (LAWS-2, page 54-55):
After you have tried these exercises, show your work to an instructor, to have it checked.
SEQUENCES IN THE PAST -- "The Neighbor's Cat and the Milk"
If you wish to write about a sequence events in the past, it's important to use past time clauses correctly. We looked at a sequence of pictures (about a cat sneaking into a kitchen to steal some milk), and first had to put the pictures into correct order. Can you sequence these pictures into the correct order, by writing numbers for each one? |
Now, how would you write about this event? Use this exercise for practice: