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Saturday, September 29, 2007

ALL CHANGE! Sept. 29th

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. Each student should build on the changes that the previous students make.

My family usually holidays at our rustic cottage in the mountains.

1. change the subject noun 2. change the direct object noun
3. change the first indirect object noun 4. change the verb name
5. change the adjective 6. change the adverb
7. change the verb tense 8. Change the second indirect object noun

Last week, you got all the way from Sam usually saves his hard-earned money in the bank to Homer has been keeping his son's college-savings in the bank.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

#1.Subject Noun
My friend usually holidays at our rustic cottage in the mountains.

Veronica Baig said...

Yujin: Good work--that's a nice start to this exercise.

Anonymous said...

2. Direct object noun

My friend usually holidays at our rustic cabin in the mountains.

Veronica Baig said...

Dave: Good.