who can answer this correctly

[budgray19]

Subject-Verb Splits

A subject-verb split is any word, phrase, or clause between a subject and verb.

Example:  He, suddenly, soared up out of the water in a fountain of spray, turning as he fell.

Example:  Poppa, a good quiet man, spent the last hours before our parting moving aimlessly about the yard, keeping to himself and avoiding me.


Unscramble:  Each scrambled sentence has subject-verb splits.  Unscramble the sentence parts and write out the sentence, punctuating it correctly.

 
1a.  in getting into bed
b.     the writer
c.       had some difficulty
d.     an old man with a white mustache


2a.  suddenly arose and advanced toward him
b.     absorbed in his own idea
c.      his terror grew until his whole body shook
d.     when Jesse Bentley


3a.  the twins
b.     in a detached way
c.      smeary in the face, eating steadily from untidy paper sacks of sweets
d.     followed them

 i just wanna see if u can do this in 3 min
my teacher says we can
its part of our warm ups
and i think its bs

[Reaper]

im not doing your homework for you LOL
Also, i just did them all in my head in about 30 seconds total LOL

[budgray19]

no i already did this one
i have to do from oct 20th to now
(that many warm ups to do lol)

[Reaper]

Note the edit to original post

[ccccpie]

Those arent that hard..... They took me about a minute to do

[budgray19]

yea i know
lol i relised i posted the wrong one HAHAHAH
this one was easy

and btw reaper



READ THE FIRST POST DUMMY
IT SAID WARM UPS!
so its not hw

[TheGrandPubaa]

Those were really easy for me, with each taking about 10 seconds, but then, I am aspiring to become a writer, so I guess it would be bad if I couldn't solve them fairly quickly.

[budgray19]

Subject-Verb Splits

A subject-verb split is any word, phrase, or clause between a subject and verb.

Example:  Poppa, a good quiet man, spent the last hours before our parting moving aimlessly about the yard, keeping to himself and avoiding me.

 

   1. Combine the sentences that follow into one sentence that imitates the model.  Change the first sentence to resemble the first sentence part of the model, the second sentence to resemble the second sentence part of the model, etc.
   2. Imitate the same model by writing your own sentences.

 

Model:  At daybreak, Rainsford, lying near the swamp, was awakened by a sound that made him know that he had new things to learn about fear.

 

1.a.  It occurred before the game.

  b.  Winston was the one to whom it happened.

  c.  He was suffering from nervousness.

  d. Winston was telephoned.

  e.  A fellow player called him.

  f.  The player told him something.

  g.  What he told Winston was that Winston had several plays.

  h.  The plays Winston had to revise.

  i.  The revision had to take place before the game.

 

Model:  Dvoira, the dark-uddered cow, was out in the field behind the hut, browsing under a leafless poplar tree, and Yakov vent out to her.

 

2.a.  The cook was concerned about something.

  b.  He was a fine-bellied gourmet.

  c.  He was back in the kitchen at the closet freezer.

  d.  There, he was ruminating about the latest beef selections.

  e.  But, the butcher reassured him.

 these should be more difficult
i guess
not by much tho lol



edit
lol still same thing
when i see a harder one ill post it

[TheGrandPubaa]

These were a little more tricky, but i'm not totally certain I understood what I was supposed to do with them, so I suppose that could have contributed to the difficulty. Stuff like this is probably a good exercise for writers.

[budgray19]

then here
splurge
http://cfbstaff.cfbisd.edu/blaggc/ap_1st_9_weeks_daily_syllabus.htm
some good exercises in there

thease are college level warmups and stuff that my teacher uses for her freshman college couces.

these r my fav kinda ones


Absolute Phrases

 

Absolutes are sentence parts that describe the rest of the sentence in which they appear.  Absolutes are almost complete sentences.  As a test, you can make any absolute a sentence by adding was or were.  Many absolutes begin with the words my, his, her, its, our, their (possessive pronouns).

 

Example:  His hands raw, he reached a flat place at the top.

                Each child carrying his little bag of crackling, we trod the long

                 road home in the cold winter afternoon.

 

At the slash mark, add an absolute phrase.

 

   1. As they drove off, Wilson saw her standing under the big tree, looking pretty rather than beautiful in her faintly rosy khaki, /(17) , (12).
   2. His great chest was low to the ground, /(5), /(5), /(10).

[TheGrandPubaa]

Bookmarked. Thanks for the link.

[budgray19]

NP

its not like it would hurt to help ya
i mean
i might be reading one of ur books when i get older
or better yet
maby one of my kids might when i get older

[TheGrandPubaa]

Maybe. I'd love to be successful as a writer. Considering my content, though, i'm guessing your kids won't be reading it until they're adults as well, heh.