sentences and stuff

Rules and examples to help you make simple sentences. 

To make a sentence you need three things:1. A sentence is a group of words that makes sense on its own. 

Cheese, car, house, table on Tuesday. This isn’t a sentence – it doesn’t make sense. 

I parked my car next to my house. This is a sentence. You can understand what it means. It makes sense on its own. 

2. When you are writing you need to use the right sentence punctuation.  Using punctuation will show the person who is reading your writing where the sentences begin and end.•    A sentence must begin with a capital letter.•    A sentence must end with a full-stop (.), a question mark (?), or an exclamation mark (!). NOT A COMMA! 

3. A sentence also needs two kinds of words in it:•    A sentence must have a VERB (a doing word). e.g. like, is, cooking, walked, need.•    A sentence must also have a SUBJECT. This is the person, or the thing, that is doing the verb. e.g. I, Beppe, Tuesday, dog, you, table, the weather,. 

Here are some examples of sentences that show you the verbs and the subjects: Last week Peggy  redecorated the pub.Are  you hungry yet?Martin, be quiet.Tuesday  was very rainy and cold. 

Other things to know about sentences:  Sentences can be very short, or very long. There is no correct number of words that should be in a sentence. The length of the sentence depends on what you want to say and the effect you want to get. BEWARE! If your sentences go on for many lines, make sure that you haven’t really put several sentences together as one sentence. 

It’s important to remember that you don’t always need to write in sentences. For example, a shopping list doesn’t need sentences, but a job application does. 

 

 

TRUE/FALSE1)     I’ll have a Big Mac with fries, please. T2)     The baby was born on. F3)     No! T4)     Yesterday was a bright, sunny day in Croydon.5)     Friday night at seven. F6)     Last Tuesday my car was stolen. T7)     Once upon a time, long, long ago, there was a beautiful princess who lived in a remote castle. T8)     Turn that music down! T 

MAKE A SENTENCE 

1)     About a dog running.2)     The dog ran alongside the man in the park.3)     About someone losing weight4)     Mt friend is on a diet to lose weight.5)     About watching Big Brother6)     Last night I watched big brother on channel 10.7)     About getting to school8)     I walk to the station and catch a train to school.9)     About…?10) Mt favorite sport is tennis. 

PUNCTUATE! 

Put full stops in the correct places in these groups of sentences. (You’ll need to add capitals where there are new sentences.) 

1. It had been raining for weeks. The river was rising very quickly and the farmers were afraid the dam would burst. We decided we would have to leave our farm. 

2. You should not drive if you have been drinking. It has been proven that accidents are more likely when drivers have been drinking. 

Put question marks and full stops in the correct places in these groups of sentences. (There are two sentences in each example) 

1. I am going to wash the dishes. Will you peel the potatoes for me? 

2. He is going by car. Are you going by bus? 

3. How are you? I hope you are well. 

Put exclamation marks in the correct places in the following. 

1. What wonderful news! 

 2. Come here this instant! 

 3. Help!

the simple gift outline

The Simple Gift Outline-The simple gift is a story of hatred, love, trust and becoming a man. It is a story of a guy named Billy, how after running away from his drunken father starts a new life on his own. He catches a train where he meets the train driver named Ernie, who dreams of fishing far away from home for some peace and quiet. The train leads him to Bendarat, a local town where he meets Caitlin, the girl of his dreams while he is stealing food of tables from McDonalds. They meet while she is washing the floor.  He sleeps in an abandoned train carriage where he meets old Bill, an old frayed man who lost his daughter and wife, left his house and decided to drink his life away in a train carriage next to Billy. Billy and Caitlin share a certain connection. Over time they establish a true relationship with each other. Old Bill and Billy work in a fruit factory for a week getting paid over $400. Caitlin and Billy hold a special dinner for Old Bill. Old Bill gives Billy his old house as long as he keeps it clean and fixes up any problems with it. Billy and Caitlin move in to the house and live together. While old Bill decides to move away from Bendarat. They live happily ever after.  

in the future

 

                                                              24/5/2156Dear diary, I have been cryogenically frozen for the last 150 years because my life was going down the drain; I had lost my family and everyone I knew in a freak accident. The only choice was suicide but then I discovered a new project that the government were working on, the cryogenically freezing process. I was the first to try it out. There was some danger involved in the process but with nothing to live for I’d thought I’d try it out. I awoke in a scientific lab with robots everywhere, controlling everything. I was rushed out by a human and set on a cold stone table. I was strapped down and needles injected in me. They were running tests and stuff to see if I was ok, I had passed the cryogenic freeze. They asked me if I could talk, to my surprise I couldn’t get the words out of my mouth. They handed me a piece of paper and asked my to write my name. I couldn’t pick up the pen properly and when I did I could only write scribble, I felt like crying. They chucked some clothes on me and put me in a dark room and closed the door all I could see was a chair in the middle of the room with a beam of bright light shining down on it. A deep dark voice rang out through the room saying to sit down on the chair. As soon as I sat down on the chair and they bombarded me with questions that I could only answer with a node or a shake of the head, they told me that I would for the next five years being kept in the facility, the next 5 years would be living hell.

the anzac article

The Anzac story-

By Ben Crouch

The Gallipoli campaign took place between April and December 1915 in an effort to take the
Dardanelles from the Turkish Ottoman Empire and thus force it out of the war. 60,000 Australians and 18,000 New Zealanders were part of a larger British force. 26,000 Australians and 7,571 New Zealanders were wounded, and 7,594 Australians and 2,431 NZs were killed. In some ways Gallipoli was a minor campaign but it took on considerable national and personal importance to the Australians and New Zealanders who fought there.

 

The Gallipoli Campaign was
New Zealand's introduction to the Great War. New Zealanders fought on the
Peninsula from the day of the landings until the evacuation of 20 December 1915. Anzac day is marked throughout the country with Dawn Parades and other services. Shops are closed in the morning. It is a very important day to New Zealanders for a variety of reasons. The Anzacs went through a hell of a lot, they may have got defeated but their memories stay with us forever and so do their stories. We pay our respects to Vice Admiral de Robeck and General Sir Ian Hamilton

The Two Trees Poem

THE TWO TREESby: William
Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
ELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear. The changing colours of its fruit Have dowered the stars with merry light; The surety of its hidden root Has planted quiet in the night; The shaking of its leafy head Has given the waves their melody, And made my lips and music wed, Murmuring a wizard song for thee. There the Loves a circle go, The flaming circle of our days, Gyring, spiring to and fro In those great ignorant leafy ways; Remembering all that shaken hair And how the winged sandals dart, Thine eyes grow full of tender care: Beloved, gaze in thine own heart.   Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while; For there a fatal image grows That the stormy night receives, Roots half hidden under snows, Broken boughs and blackened leaves. For all things turn to barrenness In the dim glass the demons hold, The glass of outer weariness, Made when God slept in times of old. There, through the broken branches, go The ravens of unresting thought; Flying, crying, to and fro, Cruel claw and hungry throat, Or else they stand and sniff the wind, And shake their ragged wings; alas! Thy tender eyes grow all unkind:

Gaze no more in the bitter glass.

The two trees questions!

1.      The poem is in two parts. Describe the difference in tone and imagery between the two?

The difference between the two paragraphs is that one is written in the image of hope, love. While the second paragraph is written in sorrow and unhappiness.

2.      What is the poem about? What does it mean to you?

I think the poem is about that there are two sides to every story one being good, one bad

3.   Find 10 words in the poem that you don’t know the meaning Look Up the words at dictionary.com and cut and paste the definitions              

                              In your document.

                              Barrenness- Incapable of producing offspring         

                              Gyring- A circular or spiral motion, especially a circular ocean                                

      Current

                  Thine- Used to indicate the one or ones belonging to thee.                  Guile- Treacherous cunning; skilful deceit.                                             Dowered- A natural endowment or gift; a dowryWinged- One of a pair of movable organs for flying, as the feather-             covered modified forelimb of a bird or the skin-covered modified digits of the forelimb of a bat.    Spiring- A top part or point that tapers upward; a pinnacle. Subtle- So slight as to be difficult to detect or describe; elusive: a subtle smile                              Ignorant- Lacking education or knowledge.

4.   What does the word wizard refer to?

       A man of magical powers and supernatural strength.  

Midnight Terror

It was dark and close to midnight, I was at the shops buying bread and milk. I went to the frozen section when I heard an ear-piercing scream, from the front of the store. I slowly grabbed my milk and walked slowly towards the counter. When I turned the corner I saw a young girl being held up in the air by something. I slowly walked toward her, when she fell to the ground with a loud ‘thump’. When I focused my eyes I realised she had a knife sticking out of her body, and blood everywhere. I dropped my basket and the milk crashed to the floor and rolled away. A head came around the corner, a Telly-Tubby head! It came around the corner, picked up the knife in the little girls body and started waking towards me. I turned and ran to only to trip over the milk I had dropped. I got up as fast as I could and went to run away when someone grabbed my shoulder, I kicked it in the stomach, only to find a person yell and drop to the ground. I turned around and saw I police officer in the ground. ‘I’m so sorry’ I said to him ‘I thought you were a Telly-Tubby’. The guy looked at me and said ‘Telly-Tubby’ in an uncertain voice. O.k. so it didn’t sound to convincing, but it was the truth. The police officer called to a Ambulance to come over and look at me. “I’m fine’ I yelled pushing his hands away from
me. ‘Dude this isn’t the time to be making up stories’ said the police officer. ‘I’m not making up stories’ I said, I stormed out the supermarket and jumped in my car.  

When o got home I grabbed a cold icy-beer and sat down on the couch, and turned on the TV. Apparently the story was already on the TV, and the officer was saying that I was crazy and the culprit was a teletuby. All the press laughed. All of a sudden all the power went off in the house and only the moonlight shinning through the windows lit up the room. I heard a creak in the stairs and got up and went over to the stairs and grabbed a baseball bat and slowly moved towards the stairs. I reached the stairs only to hear running towards the kitchen and fumbling in the drawers. I peaked around the corner to see a dark figure searching for something. I went to turn on the light but remembered that there was no power, when I turned back the person was gone. I followed the figure to the dinning room only to find the thing hurling a chair at me.  I stood up and saw a black figure lunging at me. Grabbing the figures arms I threw him to the ground and chucked the knife out of his hand. He punched me in the face and picked up his knife, holding me still. Staring me in the eyes for what seemed like hours, but was really only seconds, slit my throat. As he stood up the moonlight shone on his face, to reveal the culprit. A teletuby, my last thoughts were if only they believed me. 

Billy and Caitlin

Billy and Caitlin*describe their relationship.Billy and Caitlin’s relationship is full of love, and happiness. They care deeply for each other and are independent. They have a good girlfriend, boyfriend relationship with each other. But the only problem is that they keep there relationship secret to Everone but Old Bill.*find three examples from the text that illuminate their feelings for each other.1. on one example is on page 38 were Billy talks about what he likes about her2. Another example is the ring that Billy buys for Caitlin.3. One more example is Caitlin doesn’t tell the manager about Billy eating the leftovers at Mc Donald’s.*how do we know they love each other.You know they love each other because they go places, care for each other, spend lots of time together and share each others personal things.

Prose poem

Death by moonlight                                                                                 It was dark and I slowly walked towards the cliff,                Cold air whishing past my head and causing me to shiver.                     As I walked I thought of my life and the people I had met.I had met some truly wonderful people and the places I’ve been,Well, so many good times and so many good memories. 

I sat there thinking of things, on the edge of the cliff.It looked as no-one had been here for a while, As I stared out at the ocean I saw dolphins jumping,Water splashing against the rocks, one of them came up to me.It spoke a quiet little dolphin voice that they make,It seemed to be talking to me; I told it why I was here,My story it seemed to be listening, when I was finished it swam.It swam as fast as it could away in the distance. It felt for me. 

I thought of when I was 8 years old and I broke my knee,Mum was there to comfort me and dad sat inside drinking.Drinking his life away, it made me so angry all of a sudden.Anger that I’ve never felt before, I lost it.Screaming at the top of my voice why dad, why.I picked up a rock and threw it at the car, dad’s new car.I didn’t care, I told him I would bring it back, and I was lying.Dad didn’t care where I was going as long as his car was alright. I picked up another rock and threw it at the windshield.It broke, spraying glass everywhere, I didn’t care.I stood up and asked myself again, why dad, why.I wish mum was here, but due to dad’s careless driving,And drinking she was in a better place, I hope.Away from the abuse and yelling.As I plunged down to the deep in the cold night air, I would soon join mum.Hopefully dad would stop drinking, because where both gone.Hopefully he would learn.      

Barry White lyrics

Barry White- Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe LyricsI’ve heard people say that
Too much of anything is not good for you, baby
But I don’t know about that
As many times as we’ve loved
We’ve shared love and made love
It doesn’t seem to me like it’s enough
There’s just not enough, baby
There’s just not enough
Oh, oh, baby
Uh-uh

My darling, I
Can’t get enough of your love, babe
Girl, I don’t know, I don’t know why
I can’t get enough of your love, babe

Oh, some things I can’t get used to
No matter how I try
It’s like the more you give, the more I want
And baby, that’s no lie, oh, no, babe

Tell me, what can I say, what am I gonna do
How should I feel when everything is you
What kind of love is this that you’re givin’ me
Is it in your kiss or just because you’re sweet

Girl, all I know
Is every time you’re here
I feel the change
Somethin’ moves
I scream your name
Look what you got me doin’

Darling, I
Can’t get enough of your love, babe
Girl, I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know why
I can’t get enough of your love, babe, oh, no, babe

Girl, if I can only make you see
And make you understand
Girl, your love for me is all I need
And more than I can stand, oh, well, babe

How can I explain all the things I feel
You’ve given me so much, girl, you’re so unreal
Still I keep loving you more and more each time
Girl, what am I gonna do because you’re blowin’ my mind

I get the same old feelin’
Every time you’re here
I feel the change
Something’ moves
I scream your name
Look what you got me doin’

Darling, I
Can’t get enough of your love, babe
Girl, I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know why
I can’t get enough of your love, babe

Oh, my darling, I
Can’t get enough of your love, babe, oh, babe
Girl, I don’t know, I don’t know why
I can’t get enough of your love, babe

Darling, I
Can’t get enough of your love, babe 

I think that Barry White is the king of love and this song is telling his girlfriend how much he loves her and that he can’t get enough of her love.