Beowulf Paragraph

Beowulf is known a great leader in his time. He led the Geats in a very dreadful time. Beowulf saved them from many monsters. Beowulf had a ton of pride. But he could back it up. He had the strength of 30 men. That helped him to defeat the many creatures that he did. But having a lot of pride isn't always a good thing. Beowulf got a little to confident and tried to go kill the dragon. He did accomplish that but in the process he also got himself killed.

Episode 100- How to Write Numbers

Most style guides tell you to spell out the numbers 1-9 and use numerals for all the rest of the numbers. But there are many different style guides that tell you to do different things.
If you are writing a technical paper and you come across a sentence with 2 numbers in it then you would write the numbers the same way. Unless you have 2 numbers right next to each other then you would spell out one and write the other one numerally. It makes it a lot easier to read. When you put a number at the beginning of a sentence you should write out the word unless it is a ridiculous number then you would reword the sentence so the number isn't at the beginning. But usually you would write the numeral if it is the year but some people still recommend you use words even for years. When writing dialog you should spell out the numbers just so it looks better.

Sentence Composing # 4- Opening Adjective- Practice # 3, # 4, and # 5;

Sentence Composing # 4- Opening Adjective- Practice # 3, # 4, and # 5;

Practice 3: Combining to Imitate

In the model, identify the opening adjectives. Next, combine the list of sentences to imitate the model. Finally, write your own imitation of the model and identify any opening adjectives.

Model: Dark, velvety, the beauty of his mustache was enhanced by his strong clean-shaven chin.
--Toni Morrison, Beloved

a. His cautionary steps were slow.

b. His cautionary steps were weary.

c. His cautionary were caused by something.

d. The cause was the surrounding overexcited horses.

Slow and weary his cautionary steps were caused by the surrounding overexcited horses.
Fast and steadily she made her way to the finish line by passing many contenders.

Practice 4: Imitating

1. Identify the opening adjectives in the models and sample imitations. Then write an imitation of each model sentences, one sentence part at a time. Read one of your imitations to see if your classmates can guess which model you imitated.

Models:

1. Wordless, we split up.
--Annie Dillard, An American Childhood

Sample: Wet, the napkin fell apart
Bored, we walked away.

2. Cold, dark, and windowless, it stretched the length of the house.
--Jessamyn West, "The Child's Day"

Sample: Hot, humid, and muggy, the weather exhausted the stamina of the bikers.
Dry, windy and hot, the runners were exhausted running up the hill.

3. Afraid that we might hunt for a cheaper apartment for the next two weeks and find nothing better than this one, we took it

Sample: Happy that we would escape to a lovely beach for the upcoming one month and have nothing but good time, we left home.

Sad that we found out we can't swim or sit in the hot tub, we went back to our room.
Practice 5: Expanding

The opening adjectives are omitted at the caret mark(^) in the following sentences. For each caret, add an opening adjective or adjective phrase, plending your content and style with the rest of the sentence.

1. Frightened, I begain climbing the ladder's rungs, slightly reassured by having Finny right behind me.
--John Knowles, A Seperate Peace

2. Cold and miserable, he wandered about the many tents, only to find that one place as cold as another.
--Jack London, "To Build a Fire"

3. Excited and enthused, my limited reading helped me to know something of a world beyond the four walls of my study.
Christy Brown, My Left Foot

Sentence Composing # 4- Opening Adjective- Practice One and Two

Sentence Composing # 4- Opening Adjective- Practice One and Two

An adjective at the opening of a sentence. An adjective is any descriptive word that can fit into the this blank. Sam is a (blank) student.

Here are a few possibilities to describe the student: happy, sad, angry, glad, smart, sneaky, polite, disruptive, etc..

An opening adjective may be a single word or the first word in an adjective phrase. An adjective phrase being with a n adjective and then continues the description. Here are examples: happy to graduate, sad because her pet died, angry at not getting the job, glad about winning the spelling bee, smart as Einstein, sneaky at times, polite with elders and children, disruptive because he was beside his best friend, etc. A comma following an opening adjective where a single word or phrase.

Sentences can contain single or multiple opening adjectives.

Single opening adjective: Powerless, we witnessed the sack of our launch.
--Pierre Boulee, Planet of the Apes

Multiple opening adjectives: Bloodthirsty and brutal, the giants brought themselves to the point of extinction by warring among themselves during the last century.
--Armstrong Sperry, Call It Courage

Opening adjective phrases: Numb of all feeling, empty as a shell, still he clung to life, and the hours droned by.
--J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Practice 1: Matching

Directions: Match opening adjectives with the sentences. Write out each sentence inserting the opening adjectives

Opening Adjectives

A. Alive

B. Hot and justy and over-wearied

C. Lonesome

D. Able to move now

E. Frantic, never turning my head-- because the water buffalo had started his charged

Sentences

1. ^, I wanted to run away and be gone from his strange place.
--Keith Donahue, The Stolen Child

c

2. ^, I felt behind me, my hand pleading with the rifle
--Theodore Waldeck, "Certain, Sudden Death"

e

3. ^, the elephant was worth at least a hundred pounds, but dead, we would only be worth the value of his tusks, five pounds, possibly
--George Orwell "Shooting an Elephant:
a

4. ^, he rocked his own body back and forth, breath deeply to release the remembered pain.
--Lois Lowry, The Giver
d

5. ^, he came to our door and eases his heavy pack and asked for refreshment, and Devola brought him a pail of water from our spring.
--Bill and Vera Cleaver, Where the Lilies Bloom
b

Practice Two: Unscrambling to Imitate

Directions: In the model and the scrambled list, A. identify the opening adjective. B. Next, unscramble and write out the sentence part to imitate the model. C. Finally, write your own imitation of the model and identify the opening adjective.

Model: Speechless, Bryson scanned the small living room, frantically.
--Robert Ludium, The Prometheus Deception

a. hopefully

b. spotted the soft inviting sofa

c. Kendra

d. uncomfortable

Hopefully, Kendra spotted the soft inviting sofa.
Unfortunately, I had to clean my room.