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Stack the Deck. Lesson 2. Combining and Rearranging Ideas. Combining and Rearranging sentences: Adds voice to your writing Helps with fluidity/cadence Gives the writer control over EMPHASIS Common writing problem: Subject Verb Object sentences (SVO) Ex: Jimmy grinds his teeth - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Stack the DeckStack the DeckStack the DeckStack the DeckLesson 2Lesson 2
Combining and Rearranging Ideas
Combining and Rearranging sentences:- Adds voice to your writing- Helps with fluidity/cadence- Gives the writer control over EMPHASIS
Common writing problem:Subject Verb Object sentences (SVO)Ex: Jimmy grinds his teeth
S V O
Idea words and glue words
• Idea words: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and interjections
• Glue words: articles, coordinating or subordinating conjunctions, and prepositions
Do you see why it is important to know your parts of speech?
Label the parts of speech in this sentence:
A small boy fell into the pond and swam to safety.
What is the problem?
A small boy fell into the pond and swam to safety.
It is a subject (boy) verb (fell) object (pond) sentence.
How do we change it so that it is not an SVO?
You tryThe following sentence is in SVO format. In
your notes, in the next 3 minutes, try to rearrange the sentence in as many ways as possible. Keep the meaning the same.
Sidney left for the bus stop twenty minutes early the first day of school, hoping that
he was going to the right bus stop.
How many did you get?
Where is the emphasis?
a. The first day of school, Sidney left twenty minutes early for what he hoped was the right bus stop.
b. Hoping he was going to the right bus stop, Sidney left the house twenty minutes early for the first day of school.
c. Twenty minutes early Sidney left for the bus stop on the first day of school, so he could find the right bus stop.
Glue words, WH words, and ING words
• Sometimes we need to use different words to combine ideas. These are subordinating conjunctions, relative pronouns, and verbals.
• Glue words – (subordinating conjunctions) after, although, when, since.
• WH words – (relative pronouns) who, whom, whose, which, that
• ING words – (gerunds) Swimming is a good exercise
(present participle) The turtle chased the swimming boy
Write it out!Turn to a partner sitting next to you. Work
with your partner on the sentences given to you in Stack the Deck. Write them on a separate sheet of paper.
Rearrange the sentences 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 15 IN TWO WAYS on pages 8-9
Then rearrange the sentences 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 on page 10
