NanceXToo Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Yesterday my ten year old daughter was doing a Sentence Composing For Elementary School Lesson. She was on the section that pertained to compound verbs, and she was on the activity that had to do with expanding. I would show her the sentences in the book which read, for instance: "Mrs. Jones stopped, jerked...., put...., and continued...." and she had to fill in with sentence parts of her own. But I would also read her the original sentences from the back of the book just so she could know what the original sentence said before coming up with her own version. That particular one said: "Mrs. Jones stopped, jerked him around in front of her, put a half-nelson about his neck, and continued to drag him up the street." My daughter looked at me, said: "No lady in MY sentence is doing a half-nelson!" (which totally cracked me up) and proceeded to write: "Mrs. Jones stopped, jerked her car to the side of the road, put on her sunglasses, and continued driving." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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