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 * The Art of Styling Sentences**

1/28/10 Page 27 1&2 1.) I love to eat oranges, peaches, kiwis, mangoes. I love to eat oranges and peaches and kiwis and mangoes. 2.) I love to play soccer in spring, baseball in summer, hockey in winter, football in the fall. I love to play soccer in spring and baseball in summer and hockey in winter and football in the fall.

2/9/10 Pattern 5,4,3 sentences on the same subject:

1.) (5) Bio homework and quiz study, chinese projects and worksheets, english essays and reading were all a part of my endless homework yesterday.

2.) (4) I felt furious and tired and annoyed while doing my huge amount of homework yesterday.

3.) (3) Yesterday I had so much homework: I started my homework at 4 o'clock and finished everything at 1 o'clock.

2/10/10

Twenty-two students should've done the following: read "My Last Duchess" read the book //Candide//, and they should've written a ten-page paper.

2/19/10 Sentence from blog.

I'm gonna put an extremely long and strange emotion in three words; I loved it. Pattern 3

3/3/10 1.) Hardware, software, a modem - these parts are all essential parts of a computer.

2.) Poetry and music, painting and sculpture, drama and dance - these are basic forms of art.

3.) Guam or Hawaii, NYC or Florida, London or Paris - these are places my family want to go for holidays.


 * March 10, 2010**

Patterns 1-7:

Both paragraphs listed below incorporate the patterns studied thus far, however, one of them uses the structures more effectively.

1. Which would you say is better? Support your answer with specific instances from the text.

The second paragraph seems to be better. I think the author uses the patterns more strongly and it makes the paragraph seem a bit more emotional and personal. The word choice sounds better and makes the reader really imagine the setting. For example, "plucked" and "shipped off" sounds better than "moving." Other than just "it really was going to be a season of change, this author said, "she knew these harbingers of spring would always find her no matter where she moved."

2. With the paragraph you decided wasn't as good as the other, then make at least two changes to that paragraph which would improve it.

I think

Greening buds, patches of mud, scattered puddles, a birth of color -- spring was on its way. Noel always found this season to be the ripest: thoughts of change and potential circulated through her body. But what made this spring more anticipated than the last? Perhaps it was the knowledge that she was going to be moving back home at the end of the school year. Or perhaps it was the warming air or extra chatter at home or one of a million other things. Whatever it was, she knew this spring was special; it really was going to be a season of change.

Greening buds, patches of mud, scattered puddles, a birth of color -- spring really was on its way. Noel always found this season to be the ripest: knowing of the changes that would soon be thrust upon her made her feel a certain tie to the blossoming fruit trees. She too would be plucked from her current home and shipped off to some far off place. Her endpoint: Lincoln, Nebraska. The plum's endpoint: who knew. It could have been Nebraska or Melbourne or Brittany or Johanesburg. But this was not the first time she had started over on some other side of the world, and it certainly wouldn't be the last. She had learned to look for the small beauties amidst these times of transition, and she knew these harbingers of spring would always find her no matter where she moved.

3/29/10 DOL


 * 1) s 4+5 on pages 43~44


 * 1) 4 Whether you think Hong Kong is a nice place to shop or whether you think Paris has the best boutiques in the world, you love shopping and would go anywhere for it.


 * 1) 5 The basketball coach shouted that the referee had ignored the obvious foul, that the other team's coach had told one of his players to tackle one of the opposing players, and that the fallen player had no sign of getting back up.

My Own

If you went to Cebu with a bunch of your friends, if you went to Paris to shop with your mother, if you stayed at home sleeping in and watching movies, then you spent your spring break magnificently.

4/23/10 Page 54 The Art of Styling Sentences

1.) I stayed up and studied all night for my finals and got awesome grades: an "A," the grade I really had worked for. 2.) I really wanted to go to prom with a partner and my wish finally came true: Luke, the star quarterback asked me out last night! 3.) The class elected the person with the most skills in math as treasurer: Jim Rutledge. 4.) I worked hard for the final, most amazing award: the Grand Achievements Award, the most coveted of all academic distinctions.