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    The document provides instructions for improving basic sentences by adding adjectives, adverbs, prepositional phrases, and clauses. It defines these parts of speech and gives examples of how they can be added to sentences. The objective is to take a basic sentence like "A dog barked" and enhance it through successive additions. By the end, an example sentence has been improved to "The ferocious dog, who was trying to scare away the burglars, barked noisily through the hole in the fence." The document also presents an activity where students take turns improving sentences by rolling dice corresponding to different parts of speech.

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    The document provides instructions for improving basic sentences by adding adjectives, adverbs, prepositional phrases, and clauses. It defines these parts of speech and gives examples of how they can be added to sentences. The objective is to take a basic sentence like "A dog barked" and enhance it through successive additions. By the end, an example sentence has been improved to "The ferocious dog, who was trying to scare away the burglars, barked noisily through the hole in the fence." The document also presents an activity where students take turns improving sentences by rolling dice corresponding to different parts of speech.

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    The document provides instructions for improving basic sentences by adding adjectives, adverbs, prepositional phrases, and clauses. It defines these parts of speech and gives examples of how they can be added to sentences. The objective is to take a basic sentence like "A dog barked" and enhance it through successive additions. By the end, an example sentence has been improved to "The ferocious dog, who was trying to scare away the burglars, barked noisily through the hole in the fence." The document also presents an activity where students take turns improving sentences by rolling dice corresponding to different parts of speech.

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    The document provides instructions for improving basic sentences by adding adjectives, adverbs, prepositional phrases, and clauses. It defines these parts of speech and gives examples of how they can be added to sentences. The objective is to take a basic sentence like "A dog barked" and enhance it through successive additions. By the end, an example sentence has been improved to "The ferocious dog, who was trying to scare away the burglars, barked noisily through the hole in the fence." The document also presents an activity where students take turns improving sentences by rolling dice corresponding to different parts of speech.

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    Improving sentences

    Objective to improve sentences by adding:


    adjectives
    adverbs
    a prepositional phrase
    an embedded clause
    an ing and ed clause.
    Our basic sentence

    A dog barked .
    Adding adjectives
    What is an adjective and what is its job?

    A describing To describe the


    word noun

    The adjective goes


    The dog barked. before the noun.
    The ferocious dog barked.
    The scruffy dog barked.
    The aggravated dog barked

    Now its your turn. Add an adjective. The-----------------dog barked


    Adding adverbs
    What is an adverb? What does it do?

    Tells you how


    something is being It qualifies the
    done verb

    The ferocious dog barked.

    The ferocious dog barked noisily.


    The ferocious dog barked excitedly.

    Now its your turn, how did the dog bark? Add an adverb to your already
    improved sentence.
    Adding a prepositional phrase
    What is a prepositional phrase ?

    It tells you where or when something happened

    Some examples are: on, in, under, by, after, through, during, beside

    They can go at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of the


    sentence.

    The ferocious dog barked noisily. The ferocious


    All through the night dog barked
    the ferocious dog noisily through
    The ferocious dog,
    barked noisily. the hole in the
    in the back of the
    fence.
    car, barked noisily.
    Can you add a prepositional phrase to the beginning or end of your
    sentence?
    Embedding a clause
    a sandwich sentence
    Adding in information between commas using who, which, that, with.
    Use commas as the two slices of bread and then put in the filling extra
    information.

    Put a , after the noun you are giving more information about then the
    filling and close the sandwich with another ,

    The ferocious dog barked noisily through the hole in the fence.

    The ferocious dog , who was trying to scare away the burglars ,barked noisily through
    the hole in the fence.
    The ferocious dog, who lived next door, barked noisily through the hole
    in the fence.
    The ferocious dog, that had just been injected, barked noisily through the
    hole in the fence.

    Embed a clause into your sentence.


    Adding an ing or ed clause
    This is just another type of clause that you can embed in your
    sentence. The clause you embed begins with an ing or an ed
    word.
    Put the , after the noun you are giving
    more information about and after the
    filling!
    The dog , running around in circles ,barked.
    The dog, teased by the children , barked.
    Putting it altogether!
    Heres what we started with
    The dog barked.

    And heres our improved sentence!

    The ferocious dog, who was trying


    to scare away the burglars, barked
    noisily through the hole in the
    fence.
    Lets hear some of your examples
    The
    Working in pairs
    game Choose a basic sentence for both of you to work with.
    Roll the dice and follow the instructions. Let your partner
    check your new sentence.
    Score: 1point if you correctly add an adjective.
    1 point if you correctly add an adverb
    2 points if you correctly add a prepositional phrase
    2 points if correctly embed a clause.
    Add up all the points if you get the chance to shine!
    The winner is the person with the highest number of points
    when time is called.
    On the dice Sentences to improve
    1=add an adjective The boy ran.
    2= add an adverb The sun shone.
    3 = add a The horse galloped.
    prepositional phrase The candle flickered.
    4= embed a clause. The crowd cheered.
    5= chance to shine. The cat climbed.
    Time to show what you know!
    The wolf howled.
    Can you add an Can you add an
    adjective? adverb?

    Can you add a prepositional phrase?

    Can you embed a clause

    In your pairs, see if you can shine!

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