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Warm Up 11-5-2012 It’s Not That Hard Almost everyone gets its and it’s confused, and it’s easy to see why: usually, when we want to show possession, we use an apostrophe(‘)and an s (Mara’s attitude, the dog’s breakfast, and so on). For this reason, people often use it’s when they want to show possession. Unfortunately, that is wrong, wrong, wrong. It’s is a contractionof it is; its is the word that shows possession. Write each sentence and fill in the blanks with it’s or its. • _____ all right, _____ okay, you’ll be working for us someday. • The storm unleashed _____ fury right above our house. • When all’s said and done, _____ better to be the one who ends the relationship. • The cat meowed _____ head off, as if to say, “_____ time for my dinner!”
The mood of a story or passage is the general feeling it conveys. A story’s mood might be tense in one passage and light in another. Use the sentence below as the first line of a story, and then create six different second sentences, each of which creates a different mood. • Pierre sat quietly and stared out the window. Serene, Scary, Suspenseful? Warm Up 11-6-2012
Warm Up 11-7-2012 Think of at least three instances in which you would use a semicolon (you may use the Holt handbook for reference p. 331). Write two sentences that demonstrate EACH usage. (2 X 3 = 6 SENTENCES)
Warm Up 11-8-2012 • Correct the following sentences: • the whether on the island of crete is hot sunny and beautiful 2. Is those the animal’s pens. 3. A heard of deers eight grass outside my rooms window
Warm Up 11-9-2012 Correct the following sentence: To get alot of attention put on a carrot costume and walk around on a pair of expecially high stilts
