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Passage 7.5

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  1. samsagacious put his book in his backpack and he laughed feliciafey threatened to zap william with a spell but that didntdeterhim isabelleingenuoussmiled at williams poem and the image of felicia as a crow but she dared not laugh because she didnt want too affront her friend feliciafeliciaglowered stuck out her tongue at william and than muttered something rude under her breath williamcant you right anything accept those insipid limericks she snapped how about giving us a break and trying another form of poetry for a change • Nine Extra Credit Points: Correct the “Caught Ya!” error, define the six bold words, underline a compound sentence, and [bracket the sentence with compound predicates (verbs).] Passage 7.5

  2. ¶Sam Sagacious put his book in his backpack, and he laughed. Felicia Fey threatened to zap William with a spell, but that didn’t deterhim.Isabelle Ingenuoussmiled at William’s poem and the image of Felicia as a crow,but she dared not laugh because she didn’t want toaffront her friend,Felicia. ¶ [Felicia glowered,stuck out her tongue at William,and then muttered something rude under her breath.] “William, can’t you write anything accept those insipidlimericks?”she snapped. “How about giving us a break and trying another form of poetry for a change?” • Indent paragraph x2 • New topic • New speaker • Capitalize the first word of a sentence x6 • Capitalize proper nouns x13 • End punctuation x6 • Run-On sentences x9 • Separate into 2 sentences • Join with comma and conjunction • Separate with semi-colon • Apostrophe in contraction x2 (didn’t, can’t) • Apostrophe in possessive (William’s) • Commas to set off appositive • Confused words: (then, than) • Quotation marks around dialogue x2 • Comma to set off noun of address • Homophones (to, two, too; write, right) • Question mark for interrogative sentence (x2) • Punctuation marks inside quotation marks x2 • Extra Credit: • Add an extra check to the Caught Ya! error if you got it right on your own. • Vocabulary • sagacious(adj.) having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd • fey(adj.) supernatural; unreal; enchanted • deter(v.) to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding • affront (v.) to make ashamed or confused; to embarrass • glower, glowered(v.) to look or stare with sullen dislike, discontent, or anger • insipid(adj.) without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities • Underline the compound sentence. There are actually three compound sentences in the first paragraph. • [Bracket] the sentence with compound predicates (verbs). Passage 7.5 Errors: 40

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