MARK TWAIN IS THE PEN NAME FOR SAMUEL CLEMENS. INVENT A PEN NAME FOR

YOURSELF AND EXPLAIN WHY YOU WOULD WANT THAT NAME PRINTED ON THE BOOKS YOU WILL PUBLISH SOMEDAY.

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IN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE UNDERLINE THE COMPLETE SUBJECT AND CIRCLE THE COMPLETE

PREDICATE.

DESPITE THE POND’S DANK SMELL AND SWAMPY APPEARANCE, A SURPRISING NUMBER OF

ANIMALS MADE IT THEIR HOME.

Bellringer # 37

Answers:Complete subject is a surprising number of animalsComplete predicate is made it their home

Bellringer # 38

Assume that you are stranded for one month on an uninhabited

tropical island that has shelter and plenty of food and water. What one item (not person) would you choose

to have with you and why?

IDENTIFY THE SUBJECTS OF THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES:

1) THERE WAS A COLD WIND BLOWING ACROSS THE QUADRANGLE.

2) IT APPEARED THAT THE SNOW HAD FINALLY STOPPED DRIFTING.

3) WATCH OUT FOR THAT SLIPPERY PATCH OF ICE.

Bellringer # 39

Answers: 1) wind 2) it 3) understood you

Bellringer # 40

What country would you most like to visit and why? What would you want

to do there?