Avalon Writers' Corner: Sunday, 21 October

Monday, October 22, 2007

Sunday, 21 October

LET'S GO RED SOX!

No quizzes all around in celebration of your 2007 American Leage Champion Boston Red Sox.

IN HONOR OF THE GREAT DAY, I AM OFFERING A ONE-TIME ONLY, 5-SENTENCE, 10-POINT EXTRA CREDIT ESSAY ANSWERING THE QUESTION, "WHO WILL WIN THE WORLD SERIES AND WHY?" Essays must be turned in Wednesday before Game 1.

Parts of Speech

There are only nine kinds of words in English (IC.). You should have already memorized them, but in case you haven't, here are all nine.

Noun - names person, place, or thing (school, ball, hope);
Verb - names an action or state of being (run, take);
Adjective - modifies a noun (red, fast, stinky);
Adverb - modifies a verb, adjective, or adverb (very);
Pronoun - takes place of a noun (I, he, they, it);
Preposition - describes a relationship between nouns (on);
Article - announces presence of a noun (a, an, the);
Conjunction - combines words, phrases, or clauses (FANBOYS, see below);
Interjection - exclaims, can stand alone as sentence (Hey!);

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