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Lauren Willingham- Show What I Know!

Kinds of Sentences
 * 1) Declarative- I am hungry for bananas.
 * 2) Imperative- Go buy some bananas.
 * 3) Interrogative- Who ate the last banana?
 * 4) Exclamatory- Watch out for that banana peel!

Correct a Run-On Sentence

Run-On Sentence: I'm going to bed early I have ballet tomorrow and it makes me tired. >
 * 1) Comma- I going to bed early, I have ballet tomorrow and it makes me tired.
 * 2) Periods- I going to bed early. I have ballet tomorrow and it makes me tired.[[image:bhwikiworld/shoes.jpg width="57" height="168"]]
 * 3) Subordinating Conjunction- I'm going to bed early because I have ballet tomorrow and it makes me tired.
 * 1) Semicolon- I'm going to bed early; I have ballet tomorrow and it makes me tired.

Sentence Structure
 * 1) Simple- Dylan plays Angry Birds.[[image:bird.jpg width="121" height="145"]]
 * 2) Compound- Dylan plays Angry Birds, and Ms. Johnston plays Temple Run.
 * 3) Complex- Dylan plays Angry Birds, although he is not supposed to.
 * 4) Compound/Complex- Dylan plays Angry Birds and Temple Run, because the teacher allows him to.

Figurative Language
 * 1) Simile- Madison leaped like a frog.
 * 2) Metaphor- She was a frog, leaping through the sky.[[image:frog.jpg width="136" height="130"]]
 * 3) Hyperbole- Madison, my pet frog, is the size of a bus.
 * 4) Alliteration- Frogs fly freely from the fog.
 * 5) Onomatopoeia- BAM!
 * 6) Personification- The water balloon, a frog in the early morning dew, soared through the dew.

Writing Styles
 * 1) Absolute- Feet aching, hair flying, the model strutted down the runway.[[image:boots.jpg width="125" height="140"]]
 * 2) Adjective Beginning- Tired, the mother of 18 shopped for groceries.
 * 3) Appositive- Jessie, my dog, chews up my socks daily.
 * 4) Dash- The girl's hair looked like a helmet- a blonde helmet.
 * 5) Adverb for Effect- She paced the walkway furiously after finding out about her sister.
 * 6) Speaker Tag- "I want those boots," Gigi stated as she strutted to her limo.