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**Mattie's Show What I Know!!!**

KINDS OF SENTENCES  1. Declarative- Do not eat dessert before your dinner. Imperative- You have green emerald eyes. 2. Interrogative- Why would you break the glass? Exclamatory- I love softball!!!

CORRECT A RUN-ON SENTENCE 1. Separate the sentences using periods. Ex. Today we w ent to the beach. I watched the dolphins. 2. add a comma and a conjunction such as and, or, but, so, yet Ex. Today we went to the beach and I watched the dolphins. 3. place a semi-colon between the two different sentences Ex. Today we went to the beach; I watched the dolphins. 4.add a subordinating conjunction like because, while, if, since Ex. Since we went to the beach, I watched the dolphins.

Sentence Structure Simple- I like softball. Compound- I like to play third-base and Carlie likes to play catcher. Complex- Since I hurt my arm, I don't throw as hard as I used to be able to. Compound/Complex- Since I am the fastest on the team, I run for Carlie when she gets on base and the other team tries really hard to get me out.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 23pt;">Figurative Language <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18pt;">Simile- She ran as fast as a cheetah. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18pt;">Metaphor- She was a cheetah when she ran. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18pt;">Hyperbole- I lost my homework in the locker that was an abyss. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18pt;">Alliteration- Madison made make-up from mashed macaroni. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18pt;">Onomatopoeia- Crack! <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18pt;">Personification- The wind howled through the trees.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 23pt;">Writing Styles <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18pt;">Absolute- Sweat dripping, heart racing, I made the winning catch. Adjective Beginning- Joyful, I ran out onto the softball field. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18pt;">Appositive- Carlie, the awesome catcher, dropped the third strike and zoomed the ball to first. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18pt;">Dash- If people lose their jobs, everything will be terrible destroying how everything is-- at ease. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18pt;">Adverb for Affect- "Today we are going to the King Tutankhamen Museum!" Mrs. Ramsey said joyously. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18pt;">Speaker Tag- "I hate running the track," Adriana said stomping her feet. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18pt;">Vivid Verb- Emilee dashed around the bases, fearing they would get her out.