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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

ALL CHANGE! May 20th

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. For instance, 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 7. Each student should build on the changes that the previous students make.

The greedy child quickly ate all the candy in the coloured basked.

1. change the subject noun 2. change the direct object noun
3. change the indirect object noun 4. change the adjectives
5. change the adverb name 6. change the verb name
7. change the verb tense

9 comments:

Bren said...

change the subject noun:

The greedy boy quickly ate all the candy in the coloured basket.

Veronica Baig said...

Bren: A good change.

Bren said...

2.The greedy boy quickly ate all the chocolate in the coloured basket.

Bren said...

3. The greedy boy quickly ate all the chocolate in the colored container.

Bren said...

4. The hungry boy quickly ate all the chocolate in the glass container.

Bren said...

5. The hungry boy hastily ate all the chocolate in the glass container.

Bren said...

6. The hungry boy hastily devoured all the chocolate in the glass container.

Bren said...

7. The hungry boy hastily will devour all the chocolate in the glass container.

Veronica Baig said...

Bren: Good changes, but note that in the last one it is more usual to put the adverb between the two parts of the verb to give 'will hastily devour";-)