Summer+School-Grammar+and+Writing

__Changing Mood or Tone__

1. Use of end punctuation:

You wore that. (//simple statement or command)

//You wore that? (//simple question//)

You wore that! (//exclaimation//)

2. Adding a clause:

You wore that, and you liked it. (//independent clause)

//You wore that like it was painted on. (//subordinate// clause)

3. Adding a phrase:

You wore that, smiling smugly. (//phrase)

//4. Change the //to//ne of the following sentence:

It changed my life

. Use different punctuation. . Add clauses . Independent clause containing a subject and a verb; can stand alone. . Subordinate clause containing a subject and a verb; cannot stand alone. . Add a phrase . A group of related words that have no subject or verb.

5. Look at the quote from Huck Finn:

I'd a heard her, if she'd a said it to herself, let alone speaking it out; and I'd a got up and obeyed her, if I'd a been dead.