Bell work: Find the answers to these questions.
What is the difference between a comparative adjective and a superlative adjective?
What is the passive voice?
Class time:
1. Play the game: Toying with Words (handout)
Post good paragraphs on this page
2. Go to Grammar Bytes website
3. Finish/share Run, Lola, Run stories with writing group
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
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A young girl luaphed at the dog
The woman fed the hungry sick old dog
The man walked to his house.
The horse walked to his barn.
The reserved horse walked to his secluded barn.
A reserved horse limped to her secluded barn.
A modern horse limped to her grimy barn.
A modern horse dutifully limped to her grimy barn.
A lush, modern horse dutifully limped to her grimy, sordid barn.
A lush, stolid clown dutifully limped to her small, sordid tower.
A lush, stolid vegabond dutifully strolled to his small, sordid dresser.
A lush, stolid vegabond dutifully strolled to his small, sordid dresser. When he arrived there, he flipped it over and emptied it's contents. His face contorted as he saw he was missing his crown jewel, his father's finger.
1.Cookies, I like cookies.
2.A Oreo liked milk.
3.The tasty Oreo liked a glass of white milk.
4.A tasty Oreo hated the glass of white milk.
5.A smelly Oreo hated the glass of chocolate milk.
6.A smelly Oreo camly hated the glass of chocolate milk.
7.A moldy, smelly Oreo camly hated the glass of dark chocolate milk.
8.The moldy, smelly Oreos camly hated the glasses of dark chocolate milk.
9.The sweet, soft brownies camly hated the pitcher of dark chocolate drink.
10.Some sweet, soft brownies passionately loved the pitcher of light chocolate drink.
10/11.Whitney spotted the sweet, soft brownies and desired the brownies and the pitcher of light chocolate drink.
The old girl luaphed at the playful, full , enerjetic dog The old girl affectionetly luaphed at the playful, full, enerjetic dog The old girl luaphed at the perky playful, freindly full, happily enerjetic dog The older girls luaphed at the perky playful, freindly full, happily enerjetic dogs The young boys luaphed at the pesky perfect,Frantic full, Happily enerjetic Cats The young women fed the hungry pesky perfect, frantic freindly, Happily enerjetic animals The young women frownd sadly at the orphaned lonley, sad,tired hungry pets
8. Lush, modern horses dutifully limped to their grimy, sordid barn.
The cat burshed her leg.
The dog burshed ashely's leg.
A small dog brushed Ashely's smooth leg.
The small dog brushed Ashely's smooth leg.
The cute dog brushed Ashely's long leg.
THe cute dog softly brushed Ashely's long leg.
The small cute dogs softly brushed Ashely's smooth long leg.
The small cute cats softly brushed Jesica's small bag.
The little dogs gently brushed Jesica's big bag.
Marissa saw the little dogs gently brush Jesica's big bag.
The girl sniffed the rose.
The cat sniffed the bug.
The hungry cat sniffed the speckeled bug.
A hungry cat licked a speckled bug.
A young cat licked a spotted bug.
A young cat playfully licked a spotted bug.
A mischievious young cat playfully licked a startled spotted bug.
Mischievious young cats playfully licked startled spotted bugs.
Mischievious young gnomes playfully licked the forbbiden toadstools.
Malicious young gnomes wickedly stole the sacred toadstools. The infuriated pixies pelted them with acorns as they retreated back to their hovels. Seeing this, the elves decided to intervene. They captured the gnomes and returned the to the pixies their gretest treasure. Enraged the
gnomes swore revenge.
The champagne-colored dress was a bit much.
The chartruse-colored top was a bit vague.
A hound's tooth coat goes perfect with those plain loafers.
The ends of her maroon-colored skirt fluttered with the wind.
Her cat-walk essentuated her curves through the maroon-colored skirt.
Her strut essentuated her curves through her mini-skirt.
Her playful strut essentuated her curves through her tight mini-skirt.
Their playful struts essentuated their curves through their tight mini-skirts.
Their seductive struts essentuated their curves through their tight black dresses.
Their sensual struts showed their hips through their silky black dresses.
Their sensual struts flaunted their hips through their silky black dresses. Essentuated even more by the pressure of the leather heels causing ripples to go up their legs.
1. Bob ran into a knife.
2. Wade ran into a wall.
3. Disoriented Wade ran into the pink wall.
4. Disoriented Wade licked a pink wall.
5. Crazy Wade licked a dirty wall.
6. Crazy Wade wildly licked a dirty wall.
7. Stupid, crazy Wade wildly licked a grimy, dirty wall.
8. Stupid, crazy Wade's all wildly lick grimy, dirty walls.
9. Weird, crazy Alex intensely licked a grimy, smelly garbage can.
10. Weird, crazy Alex lovingly licked the grimy, ugly homeless man.
11. Weird, crazy Alex lovingly licked the grimy, ugly homeless man. He saw something appealing on his neck. He thought it would be tasty. After being licked, the homeless man angrily glared at him. He began to lift his fist when Alex began to run away.
1. The boy ran with a ball in his hands.
2. Danielle ran with a pen in her ear.
3. Crazy Danielle ran with a small pen in her left ear.
4. Crazy Danielle jogged over a small pen in her left ear.
5. Disoriented Danielle jogged over a big pen in her right ear.
6. Disoriented Danielle drunkenly jogged over a big pen in her right ear.
7. Crazy, disoriented Danielle jogged over an ugly, big pen in her gigantic right ear.
8. Crazy, disoriented Danielle's jogged over ugly, big pens in her gigantic right ears.
9. Stupid, disoriented Alex jogged over stupid, big pencils in his deformed right toe.
10. Stupid, disoriented Danielle jogged over long, colorful pencils in her deformed right toe.
11. Stupid, disoriented Danielle jogged over long, colorful pencils in her deformed right toe. She saw a rabid squirrel, and jogged the other way. After jogging a half a mile, she ran into Alex. The rabid squirrel charged at Alex, and bit him. Alex went insane, and bit Danielle. The rabies killed them both. The rabid squirrel laughed in amusement at the sight of them dying.
1.)The dog was licking the little girl's face.
2.)The cat was licking the old lady's foot.
3)The cat was licking the old lady's foot.
4.)A brown little cat liked licking an old lady's small foot.
5.)A cute cat searched the old lady's big house for a yummy mouse.
6.)A cute cat curiously searched the old lady's big house for a yummy mouse.
7.)A small, cute cat curiously searched the mean old lady's big house for a nice yummy mouse.
8.)The small, cute cats curiously searched the mean old ladies' house for some nice yummy mice.
9.)The happy, cute girl curiously walked the loving, old dog for some nice fresh air.
10.)The cute little girl happily walked the friendly brown dog for some nice fresh air.
11.) The cute little girl happily walked the friendly brown dog foe some nice fresh air. When she was walking the dog kept running wild. So she put the dog on a short leash. Then the dog began to poop on one of her neighbors lawns. The little girl was emmbarrased because she didn't have a bag to pick up the poop. So she tried to leave but her neighbor yelled out the window for her to pick up the poop. So she picked up a leaf and picked up the poop and throught it in the bushes.
Her starving obese sons relentlessly thought about the homemade apple pie. She spent all day making it. Her sons quickly grabbed forks and saucers; bone-rushing each other to sit at the dinner table. The pie’s cinnamon aroma filled the air. Before their mother placed their first helpings on their glass saucers she poured milk in four glasses, one for everyone (including her). She placed a big slice of the apple pie on the saucers. The apple filling was oozing from the inside the crust onto the plates. No matter, they ate the apple slices and the filling.
1) The rain splattered on the side of the window angrily.
2) The precipitation splattered on the side of the glass angrily.
3) The glistening precipitation splattered on the side on the dirty glass angrily.
4) A glistening precipitation slammed the outside of dirty glass menacingly.
5) A furious precipitation slammed the outside of the filthy glass menacingly.
6) A furious precipitation wrathfully slammed the outside of the filthy glass menacingly.
7) A gleaming, furious precipitation wrathfully slammed the outside of the resistant, filthy glass menacingly.
8) The gleaming, furious precipitations wrathfully slammed the outside of the resistant, filthy glasses menacingly.
9) The glinting, furious raindrops wrathfully slammed the outside of the defiant, filthy windows menacingly.
10) The glinting, enraged raindrops furiously splattered the outside of the defiant, filthy windows threateningly.
11) The glinting, enraged raindrops furiously splattered the outside of the defiant, filthy windows threateningly. The thunder cracked and a flash of winding thread split the sky. Jamie looked on from the bed that was about as comfortable as a slab of granite and smiled slowly, his lips twitching as the rare gesture of smug happiness warmed into his face. The navy blue night was wrought with conflict for the first time in weeks, the clear joyful sky that floated happily for the past month was gone the world outside finally reflected the world inside; instead of gloating to him that he could never enjoy himself as mush as the feathery white clouds. Now it was his turn to gloat.
1. A very pretty girl passed by the school.
2. A very pretty lady passed by the store.
3. A very pretty young lady passed by the dirty store.
4. The really pretty young lady ran across a dirty store.
5. The really ugly old lady ran across a small store.
6. The really ugly old lady leisurely ran across a small store.
7. The really repulsive ugly aged old lady leisurely ran across a dirty small store.
8. The really repulsive ugly aged old ladies leisurely ran across four different dirty small stores
9. The really repulsive hideous aged old women leisurely ran across four different polluted tiny stores.
10. The extremely repulsive hideous aged old women leisurely walked pass three different polluted tiny stores.
11. The extremely repulsive hideous aged old women leisurely walked pass three different polluted tiny stores. They each each had a wal-mart bagged that looked pretty heavy. They looked very suspicious and werent looking at anybody. Three minutes later the police stoped by and asked me if I seen a group of old ladies pass by.
1. Ta'Shae likes to eat cake.
2. Shakala likes to eat ice cream.
3. 14 yr. old Shakala, likes to eat butter pecan ice cream.
4. 14 yr. old Shakala will go out and buy some butter pecan ice cream.
5. My best friend Shakala went out to buy some strawberry ice cream.
6. My best friend Shakala went out to Wal-Mart to buy some strawberry ice cream.
7. Someone I've known since 7th grade,My best Friend, Shakala went out to Wal-mart to buy some Bryer's strawberry ice cream.
8. People i've known since 7th grade,My best friends, Shakala and Jani are going to Wal-mart to buy Bryer's strawberry ice cream.
9. People i've come to know and love,My best friends, Johnessa and Cori'ana are going to Wal-mart to buy Bryer's strawberry ice cream.
10. People i've come to know for different reasons,My best friends, Johnessa and Cori'ana went Wal-mart to buy Bryer's strawberry ice cream.
11.People i've come to know for different reasons,My best friends, Johnessa and Cori'ana went Wal-mart to buy Bryer's strawberry ice cream.
The reason for this is because we are going to throw a party tonight because it's another one of our friends birthday.
Zach
1. Henry drove his car into the lake.
2. Danielle drove her flaming boat into a wall.
3. Drunken Danielle drove her flaming boat into a brick wall.
4. Drunken Danielle rode her flaming boat through a brick wall.
5. Drunken Danielle rode her gothic horse through a sturdy wall.
6. Drunken Danielle carefully rode her gothic horse through a sturdy wall.
7. Insane, drunken Danielle carefully rode her hideous, gothic horse through a sturdy, brick wall.
8. Insane, drunken Danielle carefully rode her hideous, gothic horse through a sturdy, brick walls.
9. Crazy, evil Eddie moronically rode his hideous, gothic pig through a sturdy, brick, potato.
10. Crazy,demonic Eddie moronically crashed his obese, gothic dog through a sturdy, brick potato.
11. Crazy, demonic Eddie moronically crashed his obese, gothic dog through a sturdy, brick potato. He woke up to the pounding of his head. He wouldnt find his dog for several hours. It was around six in the morning acoording to his watch. When he heard a slight muffled sound coming from the walls. He found his dog eating diggind around in the inside of the potato.
Toying With Words
1. A very pretty girl passed by the school.
2. A very pretty lady passed by the store.
3. A very pretty young lady passed by the dirty store.
4. The really pretty young lady ran across a dirty store.
5. The really ugly old lady ran across a small store.
6. The really ugly old lady leisurely ran across a small store.
7. The really repulsive ugly aged old lady leisurely ran across a dirty small store.
8. The really repulsive ugly aged old ladies leisurely ran across four different dirty small stores
9. The really repulsive hideous aged old women leisurely ran across four different polluted tiny stores.
10. The extremely repulsive hideous aged old women leisurely walked pass three different polluted tiny stores.
11. The extremely repulsive hideous aged old women leisurely walked pass three different polluted tiny stores. They each each had a wal-mart bagged that looked pretty heavy. They looked very suspicious and werent looking at anybody. Three minutes later the police stoped by and asked me if I seen a group of old ladies pass by.
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