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Every section is full!
What is section?
100
The student is from the China
What is "is"?
100
The bells were ringing.
What is were and ringing?
100
Dolphins are mammals that live in the ocean. Mammals are different than fi sh, reptiles or birds. As a mammal, dolphins breathe oxygen, even though they live in water. Because they are mammals, a dolphin mother gives birth to a live baby, unlike reptiles and birds who lay eggs. A dolphin mother also feeds her baby milk like other mammals.
What is Dolphins are mammals that live in the ocean.
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If you have ever walked with bare feet on a rocky beach and stepped on something sharp, you may have found a barnacle. Barnacles are small animals that make their own sharp shells. They stick themselves onto rocks, boats, or jetties. When the water covers them, barnacles wave tiny feet to catch their food. Barnacles eat plants that are so small that we cannot see them.
What is writing to inform?
200
The dentist asked me questions about my teeth
What is dentist, questions, teeth?
200
My uncle looks through newspaper every day.
What is looks?
200
It is raining outside.
What is is raining?
200
There are eight planets in the Solar System, and each one is very different. Some planets, like Jupiter and Saturn are very large. Others, like Mercury and Mars are smaller. Jupiter has moons that are larger than Mercury. The planets also have different atmospheres. Uranus, Jupiter and Saturn have atmospheres of hydrogen and helium. The atmosphere on Venus is made up of carbon dioxide. Earth has a nitrogen and oxygen atmosphere. Neptune’s atmosphere is mostly hydrogen. The planets also have different temperatures. Uranus is the coldest and Venus is the hottest.
What is The planets are all different?
200
Mr. Mouse put down his newspaper and twitched his whiskers angrily. “Every time I try to prop up my paws and read, the telephone rings. All I want to do is get my newspaper read!” Little Mouse heard what his father said. “I can help Daddy!” he thought happily. While Mr. Mouse was talking on the phone, Little Mouse took his red crayon and drew lines and circles on the newspaper. “Now it’s just like Daddy wanted,” he said proudly, “His newspaper is red!”
What is writing to entertain?
300
Dad asked the mechanics working on his car to call him about his bill.
What is dad, mechanics, car, bill
300
My cousin read that book.
What is read?
300
Soon people were watching scary movies.
What is were and watching?
300
Even with eyes protected by the green spectacles, Dorothy and her friends were at first dazzled by the brilliancy of the wonderful City. The streets were lined with beautiful houses all built of green marble and studded everywhere with sparkling emeralds. They walked over a pavement of the same green marble, and where the blocks were joined together were rows of emeralds, set closely, and glittering in the brightness of the sun. The window panes were of green glass; even the sky above the City had a green tint, and the rays of the sun were green.
What is The Emerald City was a beautiful city, all in green?
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Katina and her brother, Jess were playing with the water hose outside one day. Jess was hiding from Katina so she wouldn't squirt him with the water. The back door opened and Katina pointed the water hose toward the door. It was Mom and she was dripping wet!
What is writing to entertain?
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The people of Japan celebrate many holidays.
What is people, Japan, holidays?
400
We went to Boston last April.
What is went?
400
Tanisha could not see her brother in the fog.
What is could not see?
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For some people Christmas and the NewYear are very merry times; but for cabmen and cabmen’s horses it is no holiday, though it maybe a harvest. There are so many parties, balls, and places of amusement open that the work is hard and often late. Sometimes driver and horse have to wait for hours in the rain or frost, shivering with the cold, while the merry people within are dancing away to the music. I wonder if the beautiful ladies ever think of the weary cabman waiting on his box, and his patient beast standing, till his legs get stiff with cold.
What is Christmas and the New Year are difficult times for a cabmen and their horses?
400
Judy Glen's amazing Wrinkle Remover cream will make you look younger in thirty days or less. This remarkable cream has special ingredients to make your wrinkles disappear. The cost for a thirty day supply is $ 25.99. Send your check to P.O.Box 00002, Shelton, CA 74836
What is writing to persuade?
500
Barack Obama is the 44th president of the United States of America.
What is Barack Obama, president, United States, America
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They sounded the bell for a fire drill.
What is sounded?
500
You should have brought your friend home for our graduation dinner last night.
What is should have brought?
500
The Constitution of the U.S. has been amended several times to allow more citizens the right to vote. The 15th Amendment, ratified in 1870, extended voting rights to former slaves. The 19th Amendment, ratified in 1920, gave women the right to vote. In 1971, the 26th Amendment granted voting rights to those 18 years and older, changing the requirement that voters must be 21 years old.
What is The Constitution has been amended several times to grant more citizens the right to vote?
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Every year millions and millions of American people will die of a disease they could have prevented. Do you know what disease I’m speaking of? Heart disease is the number one killer in America today. How can you make sure you don’t get this terrible deadly killer? If you never smoke you will be 40% more likely to not have heart disease. Smoking is the number one reason many people get heart disease, heart attacks, as well as numerous types of cancers. Smoking is the worst thing any person can do to their body. Every time you inhale the tar and nicotine from a single cigarette, your heart has to pump more blood, faster to the rest of your body. There’s no way around it! Smoking is the number one killer in America. If you never start the nasty habit, they in years down the road; you will not be worrying about how to quit to save your own life!
What is writing to persuade?