Do Now/Quick-Write #5: Compare and contrast the following descriptions—what is different about each? Water surrounds Vancouver on three sides. Snow-covered mountains ring the city on the northeast. Vancouver has a floating quality of natural loveliness. Water surrounds Vancouver on three sides. Snow-covered mountains ring the city on the northeast. Vancouver has a floating quality of natural loveliness. Surrounded by water on three sides and ringed to the northeast by snow-covered mountains, Vancouver has a floating quality of natural loveliness. Surrounded by water on three sides and ringed to the northeast by snow-covered mountains, Vancouver has a floating quality of natural loveliness.

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Aim: How do you manipulate sentence patterns to add variety to our drafts? StrengthenClarifyVaryRefine

Aim: How do you manipulate sentence patterns to add variety to our drafts? 1.Subject/Linking Verb/Subject Complement 2.Subject/Transitive Verb/Direct Object 3.Subject/Transitive Verb/Indirect Object/Direct Object 4.Subject/Transitive Verb/Direct Object/Object Complement 5.Subject/Intransitive Verb

Aim: How do you manipulate sentence patterns to add variety to our drafts? Subject: Who or what the sentence is all about Subject: Who or what the sentence is all about – Complete subject – Simple Subject The purity of a revolution usually lasts two weeks. The purity of a revolution usually lasts two weeks. Who or what lasts about two weeks? (Complete) Who or what lasts about two weeks? (Complete) – The purity of a revolution Strip away all modifiers (Simple) Strip away all modifiers (Simple) – Purity

Aim: How do you manipulate sentence patterns to add variety to our drafts? Exercises 63-1: Page 813 Exercises 63-1: Page 813 – a. Sticks and stones may break my bones, and words can sting like anything. (Anonymous) – b. In war, all delays are dangerous. (John Dryden) – c. Speak softly and carry a big stick. (Theodore Roosevelt)

Aim: How do you manipulate sentence patterns to add variety to our drafts? Complements—add information to a noun Complements—add information to a noun – Subject complement—after a linking verb Everyone becomes a poet. Everyone becomes a poet. – Object complement—after the object People now call a spade an agricultural implement. People now call a spade an agricultural implement. Transitive verbs take an object! Transitive verbs take an object! – He gave me the letter. – Direct Object—Ask who or what after the verb – Indirect Object—Ask to whom or for whom after the verb

Aim: How do you manipulate sentence patterns to add variety to our drafts? Exercise 63-2: Page 818 Exercise 63-2: Page 818 – a. Talk is cheap. (English Proverb) – b. An elephant never forgets an injury (American proverb). – c. A runaway monk never praises his convent (Italian proverb).

Aim: How do you manipulate sentence patterns to add variety to our drafts? Exercises 63-3: Page 819 Exercises 63-3: Page 819 – a. Sorrow makes us wise. (Tennyson) – b. Too many people make money their primary pursuit. (Anonymous) – c. Make us happy and you make us good (Robert Browning).

Aim: How do you manipulate sentence patterns to add variety to our drafts? 1. Linking Verbs and Subject Complement – Love is blind. 2. Transitive Verbs and Direct Objects – The little snake studies the way of the big serpent. 3. Transitive Verbs, Indirect and direct objects – You show me a hero, and I will write you a tragedy. 4. TV, DO, and Object Complements – Love makes all hard hearts gentle.

Aim: How do you manipulate sentence patterns to add variety to our drafts? 5. Subject/Intransitive Verbs No object or complement No object or complement Money talks. Money talks. Revolutions never go backward. Revolutions never go backward.

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