Spelling
- Activity that you do to keep your body healthy and strong, like running, swimming, or playing sports.
- A short piece of written work that you do to practise something you are learning
Exercise
Is it a simple, complex or compound sentence?
"The sky lit up with lightning, bright as a camera flash in the dark."
It is a simple sentence because it has only one clause:
Subject: The sky
Verb phrase: lit up with lightning
“The car was as fast as lightning.”
What device is used?
simile
Give 3 more ambitious synonyms for 'big'.
colossal, considerable, enormous, gigantic, hefty, huge, immense, massive, substantial, tremendous
someone who lives very close to you
neighbour
Add an appropriate conjunction to join the sentences:
“I wanted to finish reading my book. I had to leave for school.”
“I wanted to finish reading my book, but/yet I had to leave for school.”
“Although I had to leave for school, I wanted to finish reading my book.”
“The wind whispered through the trees.”
What device is used?
Personification
Give 4 ambitious words that are opposite of 'happy'.
depressed, disappointed, grave, melancholic, miserable, sorrowful, troubled, upset
now or without waiting or thinking;
as soon as
immediately
Identify the subordinate and main clauses:
“Although he practised every day, he still felt nervous before the performance.”
Subordinate clause: “Although he practised every day”
Main clause: "he still felt nervous before the performance"
“Boom! Crash!”
What device is this?
Onomatopoeia
Replace the word in iralics with a more ambitious synonym.
“The teacher asked us to help the new student.”
The teacher asked us to assist / support / aid / cooperate with / encourage the new students.
advice telling someone what the best thing to do is
recommendation
Add the missing comma:
“As soon as the bell rang the students rushed out of the classroom.”
Explain your answer.
“As soon as the bell rang, the students rushed out of the classroom.”
If a subordinate clause comes before the main clause, we need to separate them with a comma.
Create your own metaphor describing a storm.
"The storm was ..."
“The storm was a roaring beast.”
Replace the words in italics with a more ambitious synonym.
“It is very important to finish your assignment on time.”
very = absolutely, certainly, extremely, greatly, highly, incredibly, particularly, pretty, profoundly, remarkably, truly
important = essential, crucial, significant
the fact of accepting that something is true or right
acknowledgment
Is this sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?
“Because the road was closed, we took a different route, and we arrived earlier than expected.”
Compound-complex sentence
- a subordinate clause: Because the road was closed
main clauses
- a main clause: we took a different route,
- a main clause: and we arrived earlier than expected.
Identify the device: “He ran a million miles to get to school on time.”
Hyperbole
Replace the words in italics with a more ambitious synonym.
“She was extremely angry when she discovered the mess.”
extremely = greatly, intensely, awfully, exceptionally, excessively, hugely, immensely, overly, remarkably, severely, strikingly, terribly, totaly, utterly,
angry = annoyed, enraged, exasperated, furious, irritated, irate, outraged, sullen