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How Long Is This?

How Long Is This?. A Writing lesson on expanding and condensing. Expanding. Also called Elaborating 2 Strategies: 1. Adjectives and Adverbs 2. Clauses. Adjectives and Adverbs. Adjectives: Modify nouns and pronouns Adverbs: Modify verbs, adjectives, adverbs

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How Long Is This?

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  1. How Long Is This? A Writing lesson on expanding and condensing

  2. Expanding • Also called Elaborating • 2 Strategies: • 1. Adjectives and Adverbs • 2. Clauses

  3. Adjectives and Adverbs • Adjectives: Modify nouns and pronouns • Adverbs: Modify verbs, adjectives, adverbs • These bring imagery to the sentence • Imagery? • EX: Phillip ran. • Expanded: • Phillip, lean and lanky, ran clumsily.

  4. Clauses/ Prepositions • Types? • Nouns, adjectives (essential and nonessential), adverbs • Add descriptions and examples to the sentence. • EX: Phillip ran. • Added: Phillip, lean and lanky, ran clumsily • Yesterday around 3P.M., a boy around the age of 13 named Phillip, who is tall, lanky, and wearing a green shirt, ran clumsily to his bus stop, which is a mile away.

  5. Class Work • Practice: • Write about the window. Must be 100 words. • This will be turned in

  6. Condensing • This means making a sentence shorter (less words). • 2 strategies: • 1. Snipping • 2. Vocabulary

  7. Snipping • Snipping is when you take unneeded words or phrases out of your sentence. • Be careful not to take away the details of your sentence or that you hurt the flow of the sentence. • Example: • Yesterday, at 3P.M., tall and lanky Phillip (13) clumsily ran to his distant bus stop.

  8. Vocabulary • When you take a group of words and replace it with one word. • Example: ran quickly= jogged • Example: • Yesterday, at 3P.M., tall and lanky Phillip (13) clumsily ran to his distant bus stop. (15) • Yesterday, 3P.M., awkward Phillip (13) stumbled to the distant bus stop. (11)

  9. Class Work • Take your 100 word paragraph and condense it to 75 words.

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