Interactive Guide Grade 7

Language of God, Level F

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(Table of Contents and Sample Lesson from Part II—Usage)

IV. Composition, 169–230

209 Interviewing Sources Interview Exercise 212 Organizing Information 212 Drafting Your Report Proofreading Exercise 214 Revising Your Report Revising Exercise Proofreading Exercise Presenting Your Report 217 Responding to Literature

170 Attention

Lively Words

172 Clichés

The Sound of Being Exercise To Be or Not To Be Exercise

174 Sentence Variety

Writing Sentences Exercise Writing More Sentences Exercise

177 The Effective Paragraph

Poetry Comprehension Exercise Reading Further Exercise Reading “The Sparrow and the Hare”

Writing Topic Sentences Exercise 180 Examples of Effective Paragraphs Writing Effective Paragraphs Exercise 183 Proofreading 184 Transitions Using Transitions Exercise 188 Essays: Pre-writing Stage 190 Why are You Writing This Essay? 192 Main Thesis Proofreading for Punctuation Exercise 195 Developing Your Point 197 A Cohesive Essay 200 Completing the Pre-writing Research Exercise 202 Drafting Stage Drafting Exercise 203 Revision Stage Subject-Verb Agreement Proofreading Exercise Proofreading Your Revision Exercise 205 Publishing and Presenting Your Essay 206 Reports

220 Writing about the Fable Proofreading Exercise

Writing about “The Sparrow and the Hare” Exercise

223 Narrative Writing 225 Deciding the Series of Events

Choosing the Order of Events Exercise Proofreading Exercise Predi cate Noun and Adj ect i ves I n the sentence, The writer is an American, American is part of the predicate, but it is not the direct object. It is the predicate noun, which we diagram in this way: 227 Dialogue in a Story Listening to a Scripted Dialogue Exercise Purpose of Dialogue Exercise Writing Dialogue Exercise

230 Writing Your Story

writer

American

is

an

The

231 Answer Key

The predicate adjective blue in the sentence, The pen is blue , would be diagrammed with a slanted line also. The slanted line will not cross the horizontal line.

Proofreading Exercise More Sources Exercise

pen

is

blue

The

Because predicate nouns and predicate adjectives refer to the subject, the line is slanted toward the subject.

U S A G E

D I A G R A M M I N G P R E D I C A T E N O U N S A N D P R E D I C A T E A D J E C T I V E S E X E R C I S E

On your own paper, diagram these sentences.

1. I am her mother.

2. The children are friends.

3. The pizza had been too hot. ( Too is an adverb modifying hot , so it will branch off below hot .)

4. That swimmer is famous.

5. The excited children were close friends.

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