LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Change to:
● Abruptly ● Delicately
● Endlessly ● Wearily
● Firmly ● Sorrowfully
● Delightfully ● Beautifully
● Quickly ● Truthfully
● Lightly
Begin with adjectives
Change to:
The president did not restrict his travel after the attempt on his life.
Change to:
After the attempt on his life, the president did not restrict his travel.
Your Turn - write a sentence beginning with a prepositional phrase in your books.
Examples of prepositions:
● Under
● By
● Near
● Beneath
● Over
● At
● In
● For
● Above
● Below
Begin with verbal phrases - is a verb form that functions as a noun, adjective, or adverb.
Participial phrases consist of either a past or a present participle and any objects, and/or modifiers. It
functions as adjectives within a sentence.
Example:
The writer, worried that the manuscript might be stolen, placed it in a secret vault.
Change to:
Worried that the manuscript might be stolen, the writer placed it in a secret vault.
Your Turn - write a sentence beginning with a participial phrase in your books.
Begin with verbal phrases
Infinitive phrases start with an infinitive (to + verb) which is followed by any objects, and/or modifiers.
Example:
Your Turn - write a sentence beginning with an infinitive phrase in your books.
Begin with verbal phrases
Gerund phrases consist of a gerund ( a verb form that ends in -ing) and any objects and/or modifiers
It functions as nouns.
Example:
Your Turn - write a sentence beginning with a gerund phrase in your books.
The Birth of My Sister
“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, Why does the writer begin
their narrative with a quote?
but to be someone.” (Coco Chanel)
How could you vary
these sentences?
It was a cold autumn night in October. I was at the Fairfax Hospital.
How could the It was dreary inside of the hospital and it smelled of sickness. I was
writer show this?
waiting in the visitor's room with my father. We were going to see my
In your books, rewrite
mother and my newly born baby sister. I was excited, but scared at the following sentences
How could the so it does not begin
writer show these the same time. I was scared because I knew that the baby was not with the pronoun ‘I’.
emotions?
supposed to be born until December. I had memorized my mother‛s
due date as soon as I was told that I was going to have a baby sister
or brother. The nurse came out of my mother‛s room and told us that
How is this a showing we could go in and see her and the baby. I held onto my father's
sentence?
hand more tightly. He gave me a reassuring pat on the back and
What’s the effect of the than the first time I had seen her. She had roses in How could the writer have
metaphor here? included more sensory imagery
her cheeks and when she looked up at me, I just here to describe her baby
sister?
knew that she would be fine. I was so happy that the
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