Thursday, January 31, 2013

ALL CHANGE! Jan. 31st, 2013

Change the words in the sentence below as indicated. You can only change the exact word in the sequence given; after someone else has posted the next change, then you can post another change. For instance, student 1 writes #1 Subject Noun, and changes the subject noun; Student 2 writes #2 Direct Object Noun, and changes that noun. Each student only makes one change at a time and keeps to the order indicated.If you complete all 7 changes, then start making more changes again from 1 to 7. Each student should build on the changes that the previous students make.

Tom usually gives red roses to his wife on Valentine’s Day.

Changes: #1 Subject noun      #2  Direct object noun         #3 Indirect object noun          
#4 Adjective               #5 Adverb          #6 Verb name                  #7 Verb tense

Please number the change you make.

29 comments:

Alesha B said...

#1
Fred usually gives red roses to his wife on Valentine’s Day.

Unknown said...

2. Direct object noun

Fred usually gives red flowers to his wife on Valentine’s Day.

Brittany Semkowich ENGL155 said...

#3 Indirect object noun

Fred usually gives red flowers to his mistress on Valentine's Day.

Alesha B said...

Fred usually gives pink flowers to his mistress on Valentine's Day.

Unknown said...

#5 Adverb

Fred always gives pink flowers to his mistress on Valentine's Day.

Sarah A said...

#6. Verb name

Fred always provides pink flowers to his mistress on Valentine's Day.

Veronica Baig said...

ALESHA:yes!
ANDREW:yes!
BRITTANY:yes!
ALESHA: yes!
ALYCIA: yes!
SARAH: yes!
There's an interesting theme here!

Beatrice L said...

#7 Verb Tense

Fred always provided pink flowers to his mistress on Valentine's Day.

maryannth said...

#1 subject noun
George always provided pink flowers to his mistress on Valentine’s Day.

KirstenS said...

#2. Direct Object Noun

George always provided pink tulips to his mistress on Valentine's day.

Alesha B said...

#3
George always provided pink tulips to his spouse on Valentine's day.

Sarah A said...

#4. Adjective

George always provided yellow tulips to his spouse on Valentine's Day.

Veronica Baig said...

BEATRICE:yes!
MARY ANN:yes!
KIRSTEN;yes!
ALESHA:yes!
SARAH: yes!

LBensch said...

#5. Adverb

George often provided yellow tulips to his spouse on Valentine's Day.

Alesha B said...

George often presents yellow tulips to his spouse on Valentine's Day.

Alesha B said...

Sorry I forgot to add #6
George often presents yellow tulips to his spouse on Valentine's Day.

maryannth said...

#7 Verb tense

George often presented yellow tulips to his spouse on Valentine's Day.

Alesha B said...

#1
Tim often presented yellow tulips to his spouse on Valentine's Day.

LBensch said...

#2 Direct Object Noun

Tim often presented yellow gumballs to his spouse on Valentine's Day.

Alesha B said...

Tim often presented yellow gumballs to his brother on Valentine's Day.

Veronica Baig said...

L BENSCH:yes
ALESHA:yes
MARYANN: yes!
ALESHA: yes!
L BENSCH: yes!
ALESHA: yes!

Stephanie said...

#3) Indirect Object Noun

Tim often presented yellow gumballs to his girlfriend on Valentine's Day.

Alesha B said...

Tim often presented blue gumballs to his girlfriend on Valentine's Day.

Alesha B said...

Sorry I forgot to add #4
Tim often presented blue gumballs to his girlfriend on Valentine's Day.

Serena R (Eng 155) said...

Tim delightfully presented blue gumballs to his girlfriend on Valentine's Day.

Jennifer H said...

#6 Verb name

Tim delightfully showered blue gumballs to his girlfriend on Valentine's Day.

Veronica Baig said...

STEPHANIE: yes--but you should have made change #4;-)
ALESHA:yes!
SERENA:yes!
JENNIFER:That's a different verb, but it doesn't work unless you add some more wording;-)

Alesha B said...

#7
George is often presenting yellow tulips to his spouse on Valentine's Day.

Veronica Baig said...

ALESHA:I'm not sure what you're doing here--you've made a number of changes!