In English grammar, the bare basic fundamentals are the parts of speech. This week, we will be analyzing the parts of speech of different writing passages from stories and find ways to accurately apply these parts of speech in your writing.
The Alchemist:
“Even though I complain sometimes it (his heart) said, it’s because I am the heart of a person, and people’s hearts are that way. People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams because they feel they don’t deserve them, or that they won’t be able to achieve them. We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away, or of moments that could have been good, but weren’t, or treasures that might have been found but were forever hidden in the sands. Because when these things happen we suffer terribly.”
“My heart is afraid it will have to suffer,” said the boy.
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams because every second of the search is an encounter with God.
When I have been truly searching for my treasure every hour has been luminous because every hour has been a part of the dream. When I have been truly searching for my treasure I discover things along the way that I never would have seen had I not had the courage to try things that seemed impossible to achieve.
Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits them. Unfortunately very few follow the path laid out for them. They just go along and see the world as a threatening place, and because they do, the world does indeed turn out to be a threatening place. We, their hearts, speak more and more softly for we don’t want people to suffer because they don’t follow their hearts.”
“Why don’t people’s hearts tell them to continue to follow their dreams?” asked the boy.
“Because that’s what makes hearts suffer most, and hearts don’t like to suffer.”
“What you still need to know is this: Before a dream is realized, the soul of the world tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. That’s the point, as we say in the desert, that one dies of thirst just as the palm trees have appeared on the horizon. Every search begins with beginner’s luck and ends with being severely tested. The darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.”
Tell Tale Heart:
Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of mortal terror. It was not a groan of pain or of grief --oh, no! --it was the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul when overcharged with awe. I knew the sound well. Many a night, just at midnight, when all the world slept, it has welled up from my own bosom, deepening, with its dreadful echo, the terrors that distracted me. I say I knew it well. I knew what the old man felt, and pitied him, although I chuckled at heart. I knew that he had been lying awake ever since the first slight noise, when he had turned in the bed. His fears had been ever since growing upon him. He had been trying to fancy them causeless, but could not. He had been saying to himself --"It is nothing but the wind in the chimney --it is only a mouse crossing the floor," or "It is merely a cricket which has made a single chirp." Yes, he had been trying to comfort himself with these suppositions: but he had found all in vain. All in vain; because Death, in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim. And it was the mournful influence of the unperceived shadow that caused him to feel --although he neither saw nor heard --to feel the presence of my head within the room.
The Secret Garden:
When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. Her father had held a position under the English Government and had always been busy and ill himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people. She had not wanted a little girl at all, and when Mary was born she handed her over to the care of an Ayah, who was made to understand that if she wished to please the Mem Sahib she must keep the child out of sight as much as possible. So when she was a sickly, fretful, ugly little baby she was kept out of the way, and when she became a sickly, fretful, toddling thing she was kept out of the way also. She never remembered seeing familiarly anything but the dark faces of her Ayah and the other native servants, and as they always obeyed her and gave her her own way in everything, because the Mem Sahib would be angry if she was disturbed by her crying, by the time she was six years old she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived. The young English governess who came to teach her to read and write disliked her so much that she gave up her place in three months, and when other governesses came to try to fill it they always went away in a shorter time than the first one. So if Mary had not chosen to really want to know how to read books she would never have learned her letters at all.
What are your personal goals and dreams? What is getting in the way of them? What kind of plan do you have to achieve them and overcome the obstacle
I flew above the mountains and under the clouds.
He told me to be there at 10 or 11 O'clock.
He jumped over the chair and landed on the ground.
I will go from California toward Europe.
The meeting starts at around 2 and ends at 9.
Prepositions
Prepositions: Words that are used to indicate time and location.
To, from, towards, over, under, above, below, around, for, at, on, in, etc.
Example: I will put the plate on the table. (location)
I will go from Austria toward Switzerland. (location)
I placed the box under the chair. (location)
I will be there at 10 O'clock. (time)
8 sentences or use a total of 8 prepositions.
They'll never find my hiding spot.
You've been caught red handed stealing cookies from the tray.
Don't be disruptive during class.
I've had to listen to boring lectures all day.
Couldn't you pay attention in class.
Wouldn't they get the joke.
We've gone the wrong way.
I'll be waiting for an answer.
i would'nt wish the iron maiden on my worst enamy.
i haven't seen that yet.
i'll never go there again.
if you let her go she'll kill us all.
you aren't going to kill me.
i've been saving this just for you.
i wont help you.
i can't help you.
he'll go to the market but i'll go to the zoo.
They've thought about going to the movies.
He's always getting mad.
I don't know what to expect.
The guy doesn't leave the house.
He wasn't happy because his dog ate his shoes.
He isn't happy about his performance.
They weren't happy about what they got.
This doesn't make sense.
I've got some money but I haven't collected all of it
I'll have you know that I've seen a lot of celebrities, some well known celebrities at that and even met most of them but I haven't seen a MLB player and I probably won't notice them so I'll most likely never meet one.
Texas was a cool trip but we didn't win the semi finals because I got injured
I haven't ate this morning.
My grandma hasn't gone shopping yet.
I've done a lot of stuff today.
I'll pay you back when i get the money.
I can't play PS4 right now.
She'll go to the store tomorrow .
I wouldn't go to the store if i was sick.
I won't do nothing but sleep after school.
he'll go to the zoo but i'lll get a drink of water
Contractions
Where you take a word or two words and condense them using an apostrophe.
Example: I’ve, she’ll, he’ll, won’t, can’t, shouldn’t, wouldn’t, haven’t, hadn’t, hasn’t, I’ll.
What are you splitting with the apostrophe?
I’ve= I have I’ll= I will He’ll = he will Can’t= Cannot Hasn’t= Has not
Examples in a sentence:
He’ll go to the store next week.
He will (What we split)
I’ll give you $18 for Pokemon cards.
I will (What we split)
You will be writing 8 sentences using contractions.
They tried escaping the haunted house but they got lost after awhile they managed to escape after they retraced there steps. The principal caught the student running in the halls when he wasn't supposed to be running. The dog was chasing the cat around the yard trying the catch the cat but the cat was faster then the dog.
the duck swims happly. the man is eating faster then his kids. the man ran in to a parked car. the cat steals my seat. i slip on my sandls
The techer wanted his student to be more quintessentiol. The car sped through traffic.
The man ran faster than a car. The cats chased eachother around fiercely. The man worked tirelessly through the night.
He ran quickly while trying to get away from the dog.
He quietly asked me to leave.
The man rapidly swam away from the shark.
The man was running slowly.
I greedily ate all of the cake.
The man flew faster than the plane.
The fastfood was shipped from Popeyes .
The car was moving slowly on the freeway.
The motorcycle is faster than the dirtbike.
THe dog ran faster then the human.
Adverbs
Adverbs: Describes a verb and how an action was done or took place.
Example: The man was running faster than the group.
The man ran slowly.
The slowly moving van blocked the freeway. ( The moving word is considered a gerund-- meaning it is a verb that is acting like an adjective)
The car raced faster than the motorcycle.
Note: the adverb can describe a verb/action, or it can describe an adjective.
Write 5 sentences using adverbs
The kind lady did a good deed, she was wore a beautiful crimzen red dress with some long high heel boots and had long black into brown tranzishened hair. The beautiful picture of the sunset was taken on the beach and got complete when they positioned the palm trees to be in the amazing view. The baby husky had pure snow white fur with to beautiful eyes one eye is a sapphire blue while the other eye is an emerald green and to finish off the cuteness with a small pink nose.
He got bodied on the wood floor. He lives in a uglie house. The cats ate all the cat food. The bank robber wore a red ski-mask. The kid in the mcdonalds was being loud.
My small cats tried to knock over the big tv. The bank robbers car was too fast for the cops. The two black speakers make really loud music.