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1. What is the central idea/ theme? Justify your answer.



Scenario: While reading the How I met My Husband by Alice Munroe, there is a specific line that struck and made you think of. The line goes as:



Till it came to me one day there were women doing this with their lives, all over. There were women just waiting and waiting by mail-boxes for one letter or another. I imagined me making this journey day after day and year after year, and my hair starting to go gray, and I thought, I was never made to go on like that. So I stopped meeting the mail if there were women all through life waiting, and women buy and not waiting, I knew which I had to be. Even though there might be things the second kind of women have to pass up.and never know about, it still is better.




In what Medium of Visual Art you are likely to be engaging in this semester? And why?


  

Complete the following exercises by inserting commas only where necessary. Follow the “13 Comma Rules” handout for guidance.


    1. Wagging his tail the puppy barked with excitement.

                       2. Ignored by the policeman the town drunk always slept in 

                       the dark.

                       3. By four in the afternoon everyone wanted to go home.

                       4. During the power blackout people tried to help each other.

                       5. Near the end of the driveway we planted a lilac bush.

 

 

Rule 3:          1. The woman of the 1990’s often tries to be a wife a mother

                       and a career woman.

                       2. The police found TV sets blenders and hair dryers in the 

                       abandoned car.

                       3. Bill wants to go to the shore his wife wants to go to the 

                       mountains and their children don’t want to go anywhere.

                    

 



Complete the following exercises by inserting commas only where necessary. Follow the “13 Comma Rules” handout for guidance.

 

Rule 1:          1. That wall clock looks expensive but it doesn’t work.

                       2. He likes to buy expensive clothes but hates to pay the bills.

                       3. The lights went out so the guests had to leave early.

                       4. The store will have to stay open longer or it will lose money.

                       5. John has a large garden for he loves to grow vegetables.

 

Rule 2:          1. When the snow stopped we were able to leave.

                       2. As the stage curtain rose the audience clapped.

                       3. We stayed on the beach until the sun went down.

                       4. Although English is offered only in the mornings you can take

                       chemistry at night.

                       5. I am going to bed early tonight because I am tired.




Complex  Sentences  # 3  (15  marks)

Directions :  Write  a  dependent  clause  that  turns  the  simple  sentence  into  a  complex  sentence.  CREATE  THE  MISSING  PART  OF  THE  SENTENCE.  Use  the  joining  words  in  the  box  below  the  exercise  for  ideas.


Example:

1.  While  we  sang  at  the  concert,  parents  recorded  the  show  with  their  video  cameras.  (the  bolded  part  is  added  as  a  dependent  sentence)



12.  ________________________________________________________________________________,

we  sang  camp songs  for  hours.


13. Dawn  and  I  couldn’t  stop  giggling

________________________________________________________________________________.


14. We  stared  into  space  with  our  mouths  wide  open

________________________________________________________________________________.


15.  Timmy  hopped  from  one  foot  to  the  other  ________________________________________________________________________________.



Complex  Sentences  # 3  (15  marks)

Directions :  Write  a  dependent  clause  that  turns  the  simple  sentence  into  a  complex  sentence.  CREATE  THE  MISSING  PART  OF  THE  SENTENCE.  Use  the  joining  words  in  the  box  below  the  exercise  for  ideas.


Example:

1.  While  we  sang  at  the  concert,  parents  recorded  the  show  with  their  video  cameras.  (the  bolded  part  is  added  as  a  dependent  sentence)



6.  ________________________________________________________________________________,

you  can  go  to  the  movies  on  Saturday.


7.  ________________________________________________________________________________,

everyone  stopped  what  they  were  doing.


8.  We  talked  on  the  phone  for  hours  ________________________________________________________________________________.

9.  We  had  a  hard  time  finding  our  way  home

________________________________________________________________________________.









How Visual Art affect your chosen college course?


Complex  Sentences  # 3  (15  marks)

Directions :  Write  a  dependent  clause  that  turns  the  simple  sentence  into  a  complex  sentence.  CREATE  THE  MISSING  PART  OF  THE  SENTENCE.  Use  the  joining  words  in  the  box  below  the  exercise  for  ideas.


Example:

1.  While  we  sang  at  the  concert,  parents  recorded  the  show  with  their  video  cameras.  (the  bolded  part  is  added  as  a  dependent  sentence)


2.  ________________________________________________________________________________,

we  will  be  going  to  camp.


3.  ________________________________________________________________________________,

Dad  changed  the  flat  tire.


4. The  police  searched  every  house

________________________________________________________________________________.


5.  I  like  to  eat  cotton  candy

________________________________________________________________________________.







Select an art work from the books or objects. Then write a paragraph about the work you selected,describing its qualities, characteristics,construction etc and how you feel about it.


Complex  Sentences  # 2  (15  marks)

Directions:  Write  “Dependent  Clause”  (DC) under  the  dependent  clause  and  “Independent  Clause”  under  the  independent  clause  (IC).  Circle  the  joining  word  between  the  sentences.


10.  I  had  to  go  to  the  dentist  because  my  back  tooth  started  to  hurt.


11. After  I  finished  my  project,  I  asked  my  dad  to  check  it  for  mistakes.


12. If  I  had  hit  the  ball  five  more  feet,  it  would  have  been  a  homerun.


13. We  could  not  go  to  the  movies  until  my  baby  sister  woke  up  from  her  nap.


14. Alice  played  the  piano  while  Mary  played  her  flute.


15. Mary  walked  the  dog  while  Carlos  prepared  dinner.