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Saturday, September 15, 2007

ALL CHANGE! September 15th

Change the words in the sentence below as indicated. You can only change the exact word in the sequence given; after someone else has posted the next change, then you can post another change. Student 1 writes #1 Subject Noun, and changes the subject noun; Student 2 writes #2 Direct Object Noun, and changes that noun. Each student only makes one change at a time and keeps to the order indicated.If you complete all 7 changes, then start making more changes again from 1 to 8.

Rachida quickly gave her young son a hug before he went to school.

1. change the subject noun 2. change the direct object noun
3. change the indirect object noun 4. change the verb
5. change the adjective 6. change the adverb of manner
7. change the verb tense 8. change the adverb clause of time

9 comments:

yujin said...

Dear teacher:
I try to answer some question and I need you help and check my answer:

1.She quickly gave her young son a hug before he went to school.
2.Rachida quickly gave her young son a kiss before he went to school.
3.Rachida auickly gave her young daughter a hug before her went to school.
4.Rachida quickly presented her young son a hug before he went to school.
5.Rachida kindly gave her young son a hug before he went to school.
6.I don't know this question.
7.Rachida always quickly gives her young son a hug before he goes to school.
8.Rachida quickly gave her young son a hug before he went to bed.

Veronica Baig said...

Yujin: You have done too much work here--all you needed to do was Sentence 1--then the next student takes your sentence "She quickly gave her young son a hug before he went to school" and keeps that change and makes the second change indicated.
Your other sentences: 2 and 3 are good (be careful of typos): #4--not a good verb to use here;#5--good; #7--good, but I don't know why you added "always"; #8--good.

Veronica Baig said...

STUDENT 2: Please start from Sentence 2 and make the appropriate change to that sentence.

Anonymous said...

She quickly gave her husband a hug before he went to school

Anonymous said...

1Michelle quickly gave her young son a hug before he went to school.

Veronica Baig said...

Nancy: Good, but you missed out the adverb in that sentence;-)
Satvinder: That's a good sentence, but you were supposed to make change #3 (indirect object noun) to Nancy's sentence.

Anonymous said...

I was confused when I read your comment. So I went to the Write Site ...

From the write site:

Direct Object: The noun affected by the action of the verb. It usually places after the verb: The boy hit the ball.

Did you mean adjective? So I should have written

She quickly gave her handsome husband a hug before he went to school.

Anonymous said...

3. Change Object Noun

Rachida quickly gave her young girl a hug before she went to school.

Veronica Baig said...

Nancy: The direct object usually places after the noun--it does not necessarily place directly after the noun. If a noun is qualified by an adjective, then the adjective usually places before the noun. But you're right--that should have read 'adjective'. ;-) But you didn't need to change the adjective--you just needed to keep it in the sentence.
Dave: OK--you're still on the direct object. By the way, who does "she" refer to?